Fishing near Marlborough in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Mirror Carp, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 198
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1872
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7/15/10 - Sudbury Reservoir near Marlborough

7/15/10 - Sudbury Reservoir

12-1/4in 1lb Largemouth
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8/26/11 - Sudbury Reservoir near Marlborough

8/26/11 - Sudbury Reservoir

1lb Larry falls for the jig
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4/29/10 - Sudbury Reservoir near Marlborough

4/29/10 - Sudbury Reservoir

13in 1lb Largemouth
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Luch time Bass  near Marlborough

Luch time Bass

Fort Meadow Marlboro 14" 1.2LB
4in curly tail black worm
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Marlborough fishing photo 4

The scale said 3lbs, but it doesn't look it by the photo. My first non bait size fish of the year. This is one of those "I've been fishing for hours and I swear this is my last cast" catches that turns into another hour of fishing. :-) Caught 4/30/11, about 10:30am at the Sudbury Resevoir. Fishing a red strike king rubber worm.
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Sudbury Lunker! near Marlborough

Sudbury Lunker!

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Top Fishing Spots near Marlborough

Fort Meadow Reservoir
Fort Meadow Reservoir

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911 Field
911 Field

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Sudbury Reservoir
Sudbury Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
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Little Chauncy Pond
Little Chauncy Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Lake Boon
Lake Boon

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
Views: 11131

Chauncy Lake
Chauncy Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 6
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Marlborough Area Fish Species

Recent Marlborough Fishing Reports

7/15/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA Fishing Report Jul 16, 2010

7/15/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA

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And my 2nd stop for the day, I bounced around 6 different spots on the Sudbury Res. The water here is a little cloudy too. Gustly wind at times, along...

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8/26/11 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA Fishing Report Aug 29, 2011

8/26/11 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA

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Afterwork for about an hour I tried a few spots. Started on Rt. 85 just off route 9. Tons of bait fish around, but thats about it. Tried a popper, sen...

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4/29/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA Fishing Report Apr 30, 2010

4/29/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA

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Got in about an hour tonight. Tried a spot on Acre Bridge Rd. for the 1st time. Stone Culvrit with a nice channel with shallows left and right. Tea co...

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5/4/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA Fishing Report May 05, 2010

5/4/10 - Sudbury Reservoir - Southboro, MA

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Well after a dismal performance in my tourney on Sunday I was looking to right the ship and get back on track for the month of May. Only got in about ...

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Sudbury Lunker!   Fishing Report Aug 09, 2016

Sudbury Lunker!

Sudbury Reservoir -

I got out early on a sunny August morning and landed my best fish of the year on my second cast! Caught this largemouth on a Super Spook Jr. at 7:20a...

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Sudbury Reservoir Fishing Report Sep 07, 2014

Sudbury Reservoir

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I have lived close to the Sudbury Reservoir for close to 2 years now, but never got out to fishing it. Scoped out a few location yesterday and tried i...

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Baits and Tackle used near Marlborough

Check Prices

  • 3 on dark green Senkos
    1 on a Popper
    1 on a Rattle Trap
  • Kivas from the Sud
    Senkos
  • Yo Mama Senko
    The Big ones Gasoline Green
  • weedless jig with worm
  • jitterbug, yum worm..pumpkin
  • Jitterbugs (black)
  • Mostly Spider Grub and Spinner bait
    Our Limit was Chuck's 1lb 14oz, and My 3lb 5oz, 2lb 15oz, 2-1/4lber, and 1-3/4lb for 12.14lbs

    I also had two 1lbers, and a 10"er
  • White Wooly Bugger
  • Large topwater popper.
  • Bait catching net at boat ramp

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Large and XL Shiners
  • Large Minnows
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • White suckers
  • Big Shinner
  • Big Kiva
  • Yellow Perch
  • Shinners
  • Pike shinners, again

Creature Check Prices

  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple

Tube Check Prices

  • minitube flourescent
  • June Bug tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • june bug tubes
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • june bug tube
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • white tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
  • I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • Medium shiner
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • 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.
  • 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • shiner
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
  • Skitter Pop
    Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
  • Jitterbug
  • Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
  • Rebel Popper - Perch
  • Black jitter bug.
  • Popper
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
  • Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog

Lizard Check Prices

  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
  • bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go
  • Two 1lb Pickerel
  • Sluggo

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinner green bleeder
  • Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
  • Green Bleeder
  • white skirt
  • white and red tandem colorado
    long tail
  • 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
  • Yellow green spinnerbaits
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner
  • Spinnerbait
  • rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • 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.
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • Spro Frog
  • 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.

Streamer Check Prices

  • Chart/White clouser
  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • 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.
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • X-Rap
  • Jerk Bait
  • Jerk Bait
    1st Calico was 8in
    2nd was 10in
    3rd was 9in
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Silver / Black Roostertail
  • All 4 and 5 inch Bass
  • 5in and 9in Bass
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    ***Two 4in, One 8in, one 8 1/2in
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    ***
    1st one was 8 1/2in 7oz
    2nd one was 8in 4oz
  • 1st fish of the night
  • 1/8 rooster tail.
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6 Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • one 8in, and one 12-1/4in 1lb
  • 6" Green/Brown Pumpkin Senko
  • 5" Baby Bass Senko
  • Senko watermelon
  • 1 on a Senko
    2 on a Popper
    4 on a BPS texas rigged worm
  • Senko watermelon 5" worm (no flake) - two 12 inchers

    Zoom watermelon seed 6" lizard - 14 incher
  • 3 caught on weightless dark senkos with a 4/0 red worm hook
    2 caught with dark green Strike King worms on a 1/8oz weighted 3/0 worm hook
  • 6 inch plastic worm, yamamoto, dark red, rigged wacky style
  • 4 LMB's caught on assorted 5" regular Senkos (Watermellon, Pumpkin, Bama Bug, and Baby Bass I think)
    1 LMB caught on a 4" Fat Ika Senko
  • Senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • xps swimbait
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • Drop Shot
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
  • Shaky Head
  • 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
    lots of 1lbers
  • Dropshot
  • Dropshot Sluggo
  • Five 2lbers
    Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
  • 1 on Rooster Tail
    1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
  • 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
    4 on Rooster Tail
  • 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
    1 on Rooster Tail
  • rapala red ratalin rap
  • Rapala Original Perch #7
  • 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
    8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7
  • Rosster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    Missed a 1lb+, came off a few feet from the dock

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

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
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz
  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • River2Sea Biggie Smalls yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless Strike King Red Eye Shad
  • strike king sexy shad
  • Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
    dives 2 to 5 feet
  • Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
  • Square Bill
  • 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
  • mann's baby shallow diver chartrause perch pattern. caught all 8 on it!
  • Bait ball. From live target
  • Baitball. Live target

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
  • pumpkin
  • 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!
  • fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
  • black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
  • SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Frog = 1 lil bump
    White Shad = 2 LMB
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • silver spoon
  • 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!
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Nightcrawlers and troutworms
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • just a small piece
  • Kids materials
  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Greyish, green, red face
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • rattler
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 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...
  • Chatterbait
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Dropshotting
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • 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
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

  • white rooster tail
  • Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • rooster tail
  • usually rubber worms
  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
  • SPINNER BAIT
  • Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait

    Two were 1-3/4lbs
    Five were 1-1/2lbs
    The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
  • Berkley PowerBait
  • Green Power Bait
  • Corn and lots of it
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

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

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