Fishing near Holbrook in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Bluegill, Arctic Char, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 221
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Grove Lake near Holbrook

Grove Lake

Car top boats only. very shallow areas but still have bass in there. Try near the bridge/waterfall deep and moving water. Also in the middle of the lake where the shores bottle neck on the left side is deeper and a river runs along that side, all of perch there but hit a 4lb there.
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Caught using a 6in floating pink worm (texas rigged). Slow retrieve.
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My fav lil spot near Holbrook

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Top Fishing Spots near Holbrook

Lake Holbrook
Lake Holbrook

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Sylvan Lake
Sylvan Lake

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Cushing Pond
Cushing Pond

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Weymouth Great Pond
Weymouth Great Pond

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Cranberry Pond
Cranberry Pond

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Cleavland Pond
Cleavland Pond

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Holbrook Area Fish Species

Recent Holbrook Fishing Reports

Sunday slobs Fishing Report Jul 15, 2012

Sunday slobs

south shore slob shop -

My buddy and I headed to one of our super secret south shore slob shops. It did not dissapoint...... Well for my buddy. He best 3 fish went 18.1lbs in...

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My backyard Fishing Report Sep 21, 2009

My backyard

Grove Lake Holbrook Ma. -

There is a nice small lake just a few blocks away from me. I drive past it everyday and have lived here for about 8years. I have fished there over the...

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Just for the Heat of it! Fishing Report Jul 18, 2013

Just for the Heat of it!

Lake Holbrook, MA -

Unplanned trip, went out to the local lake and found a decent submerged rock to stand on and throw a couple casts in the early afternoon. Targeted the...

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Sylvan with my dad 6/18 Fishing Report Jun 18, 2012

Sylvan with my dad 6/18

Sylvan lake, Holbrook , ma -

My dad had the morning off so i took him to my local honey hole. Hes never been to this lake before but always was interested in trying it out. He was...

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Sylvan lake Fishing Report Jul 24, 2012

Sylvan lake

Sylvan lake, Holbrook , ma -

I went out last week to a little lake about 5 minutes down the street from my house. Not a lot of people fish here so its kinda nice I was down there ...

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Smoke On The Water-Secret Pond w/Bob Miceli Fishing Report Jul 22, 2009

Smoke On The Water-Secret Pond w/Bob Miceli

Secret Pond, Ma -

I dont wanna broadcast this pond .It was incredible!!!! Wish i had more time to fish but had to go to work. 3hours of fishing resulted in 7 fish Total...

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Baits and Tackle used near Holbrook

Check Prices

  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • chug bug
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
  • earthworm
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
  • white spinner bait
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
  • Nightcrawler

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Live eels
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig

Creature Check Prices

  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • use small tube
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • White Mouse
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Used a silver/black top water popper, cast under overhanging brush and near the weeds, every few cranks I'd give a slight jerk and it drove them nuts

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • berkley slug
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • red 5" Senko
  • Sluggo
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • buzzbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Spro Frog
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.

    Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • Olive Shad X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Panther Martin
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • mepps agalia
  • Rooster Tail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Gold spinner
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • Grape worm texes rig
  • Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue
  • baby bass senko
  • Rootbeer senko
  • Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
  • Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
  • Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko
  • caught 1 on senko worm, 1 on spinner bait, 1 on Rebel minnow
  • white senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm shad mullet color
  • Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • xps swimbait
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
    My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz

    what didn't make the cut:
    two 1lb 6oz
    half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
    one 14oz
    one short

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • blue silver reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • blue reble
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • j9 black/gold
  • Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • slow slow slow presentation
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
  • Strike King Squarebill

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • regular silver spoon
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • trout worms
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Black Spinner Bait


    Drop down Menu not working correctly!!
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Power bait

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