Fishing near Lunenburg in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 172
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 680
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Lunenburg Fishing Photos

Big Pickerel.  near Lunenburg

Big Pickerel.

Middle of a deep cove in the southern end of the lake. (Not exactly sure of the weight, didn't have my scale)
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Incredible set of pads.  near Lunenburg

Incredible set of pads.

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Another honey hole.  near Lunenburg

Another honey hole.

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Lunenburg fishing photo 3

Holding a Larry!
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Lunenburg fishing photo 4

Tending to her rod!
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Here's a view of the old Whalom Park which was located on the shore of Whalom Lake in Lunenburg, Mass!
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Top Fishing Spots near Lunenburg

Whalom Lake
Whalom Lake

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Whalom Pond
Whalom Pond

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Hickory Hills Lake
Hickory Hills Lake

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Bixby Brook
Bixby Brook

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Fort Pond
Fort Pond

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# Reviews: 3
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Pearl Hill Brook
Pearl Hill Brook

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Lunenburg Area Fish Species

Recent Lunenburg Fishing Reports

Trip with Autumn and Montana Fishing Report Apr 29, 2009

Trip with Autumn and Montana

Whalom Pond -

Quick trip to Whalom with the girls!...

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Fishing at Whalom Fishing Report Nov 22, 2009

Fishing at Whalom

Whalom Pond -

Slow ...

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What ever bites Fishing Report Apr 21, 2009

What ever bites

Whalom -

Trout, Perch, Bluegills...

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Lake Shirley Fishing Report Apr 09, 2009

Lake Shirley

Lake Shirley, Lunenburg, Shirley Ma. -

Looking for Larry's Grandpa!...

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Morning at Whalom Lake Fishing Report Apr 05, 2009

Morning at Whalom Lake

Spent 2-3 hrs soaking worms and powerbait off the bottom. No hits!
The guy next to me had 2 bites = 2 nice fish!...

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Morning in the rain w/ Rokibass Fishing Report Aug 22, 2010

Morning in the rain w/ Rokibass

Lunenburg -

Hit a new spot up today with Rokibass.We new it was gonna be a fairly tough bite with the rain coming fast,but it beats the house anyday.It was going ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Lunenburg

Check Prices

  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • plastics
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
  • Green with gold belly swim bait.
  • 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.
  • smoke red flake senkos
  • wacky worms and spinnerbaits
  • Shinners

    Big Ones
  • Goliath size perch

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Big Shinner
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Shinners
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Yellow Perch
  • White suckers
  • Big Kiva

Creature Check Prices

  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

Tube Check Prices

  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • june bug tubes
  • June Bug tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • Medium shiner
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
  • Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • Jitterbug
  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
  • Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
  • Popper

Lizard Check Prices

  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
  • I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • red
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner
  • 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
  • Spinnerbait
  • 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
  • Spinner green bleeder
  • Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
  • Green Bleeder
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Ribbit frog
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • X-Rap
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
  • Trolling main channel
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Silver / Black Roostertail
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
  • Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
  • 6" Yamamoto Senko black/pink worm
  • senko
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • Drop Shot
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • Shaky Head
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
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  • Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
    A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
  • 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • senkos
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • Bluegill flash 5 inch super fluke
    Bluegill chatterbait with a watermelon pearl lft swimbait
    1/4 ounce blk/blu booyah baby boo jig with a black yum craw papi
    2 inch baby bass bps grub
  • Blue Fox Vibrax series
  • Koppers livetarget frog
    scumfrog little bigfoot frog
    zoom super fluke
  • Green bigfoot scum frog
    Tan/brown Koppers hollow body frog
    Watermelonseed 5" Zoom super fluke
    Green pumpkin booyah boo jig w/ Rage craw trailer green pumpkin
    bluegill 3/8 oz. chatterbait w/ watermelon red flake swimmin' fluke
  • 4" black and blue yum dinger
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.

Craw Check Prices

  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • jig n pig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • rapala wounded minnow
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • brown
  • pumpkin
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!
  • black and blue with blue craw trailer

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Wolly Bugger
  • White wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
  • Berkeley GULP!

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
  • silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • worms on a bobber is the way to go. cast under trees and near weeds and lilies
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Greyish, green, red face
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • rattler

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog
  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
    One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
    All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
  • We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...

    In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
  • Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.

    We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.

  • Corn and lots of it
  • Green Power Bait
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn

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