Fishing near Hampden in Hampden County, MA

3.59 Rating based on 150 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Chain Pickerel, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 103
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 226
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Hampden Fishing Photos

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1lb3oz but who cares, it's a bass
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First December dink!
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Top Fishing Spots near Hampden

Scantic River
Scantic River

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Sawmill Pond
Sawmill Pond

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Hurds Lake - Camp Ayapo
Hurds Lake - Camp Ayapo

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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Scantic River
Scantic River

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 5206

Pulpit Rock Pond
Pulpit Rock Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2377

Crescent Lake
Crescent Lake

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Hampden Area Fish Species

Recent Hampden Fishing Reports

Ayapo Fishing Report Jun 19, 2011

Ayapo

Camp Ayapo Somers Ct -

Went out last week and caught 8-10 1-2 pounders from 5am to noon..with 5inch black yamas and hula grubs..great time :0...

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December bassin' Fishing Report Dec 12, 2012

December bassin'

Since the calender hit December, I've been trying to get my first December bass, and have been failing miserably (but have been bagging trout on j...

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Larry comes home Fishing Report Sep 14, 2010

Larry comes home

Quarry pond Spfld,Ma -

Finally got my Larry in a place i least expected. ...

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night crescent run Fishing Report Jul 18, 2009

night crescent run

Cresent Lake Enfield -

Thunder storms don't stop us
we caught nothing smaller than 5 lb largies in a T storm...

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Sunday Cresent Lake Enfield  Fishing Report Jul 15, 2009

Sunday Cresent Lake Enfield

Cresent Lake Enfield -

Went out in a 10ft jon boat with recosby sunday morning and nailed em...

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Cresent lake run Fishing Report May 25, 2009

Cresent lake run

Cresent Lake Ct -

I went out on memorial day to get some pond fishing in...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hampden

Check Prices

  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • mixed color senkos
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Big shiners
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • Live Carwfish

Creature Check Prices

  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • large shinners with a bobber
  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • tip ups
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • White and Red stick bait
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Rapala blue and white rattle

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • meppes
  • rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • black Rooster tail
  • blue fox
  • Phoebe

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • black senko
  • green pumpkin senko
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Yamamoto black Senko
  • senko
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • decided to throw some black yamamotos at these guys and they took it....
  • weedless bucktail with a berkley worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • jig heads / swim tails
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
  • Senco stretch 40
  • jig heads and swim baits

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
  • gulp

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • litle plastic minnows
  • small swimming minnow soft bait
  • Spinner baits, Yamoto(misspelled)Worms, rapala top water!
  • Spinner Baits, Worms, Top Water lures!

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap
  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • Booyah tiger
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • yellow dancin eel
  • rattletrap
  • Perch colored Shad Rap,it's a classic!
  • spook

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line
  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • weighted Sluggo

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Herring Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet Jig
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • purple

Other Check Prices

  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Chicken Liver
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • Candy
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