Fishing near Marshfield in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 151
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Top Fishing Spots near Marshfield

Perregrine White
Perregrine White

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Chandler's Pond
Chandler's Pond

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Lewis Pond
Lewis Pond

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Bluefish River
Bluefish River

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Powder Point Bridge
Powder Point Bridge

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Old Oaken Bucket Pond
Old Oaken Bucket Pond

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Marshfield Area Fish Species

Recent Marshfield Fishing Reports

Testing out a new lure Fishing Report May 22, 2014

Testing out a new lure

No name pond -

Hit an old favorite spot last night for a couple hours!
Wanted to try out my new 5 inch daddy Mac swim bait!

The pond is weeded up! Pads ...

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decent one the other day Fishing Report May 17, 2016

decent one the other day

Old favorite -

braved the winds in my yak on sunday. went out in the afternoon! froggin and swimbait mission. couple blow ups in thick pads. one dink one pickerel on...

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Bass/Pikerel Fishing - five days report Fishing Report Mar 26, 2013

Bass/Pikerel Fishing - five days report

South Shore -

Fished all weekend at Little Sandy Pond with no result. No bites at all. Fished all over the pond. hopefully, in next week or two. It will start activ...

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Great 2 days for December  Fishing Report Dec 04, 2012

Great 2 days for December

2 ponds -

Hit a pond on Sunday.brought a bucket of shiners. First fish of the day came in the middle of the pond in 20 feet of water.
Not hits for a while. T...

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2lbs yellows Fishing Report Dec 31, 2015

2lbs yellows

new favorite perch spot -

went out 2 weeks ago!
post front conditions. first pond SUCKED, me and my buddy had 2 fish and a few hits. hail mary we went to a new pond for an ...

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First ice bass 2013 Fishing Report Jan 08, 2013

First ice bass 2013

Ice fishing honey hole! -

Hit my ice honey hole again today after work. Ice still good.
Went after the bass I lost yesterday! I set a rod with a dead shiner on the bottom. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Marshfield

Check Prices

  • Saleemander carolina rigged
  • Black Spinner bait
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • just casst
  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • black and red spinner dual spoons and trailer hook low and slow in the weeds

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fresh Mackerel
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Live pogies and bluefish.
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • live mackerel
  • Live eels
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.

Creature Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • Black and Blue as usual

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Live minnow under a float
  • shiners
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Shiner live lining.
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • 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
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Strike KingƃĀ‚Ć‚Ā® Spit-N-KingƃĀ‚Ć‚Ā® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • berkley slug
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • Mann's Shadow

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • I drop in a spinner or crank bait. Make sure it is loud and early in the am. I work it from the shore and let it sink at the drop off or run it deep along the drop
  • Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
  • med speed retrieve
  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 1/4 black thumper

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • 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
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Joes fly

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers
  • Butterfly Jig

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko worms, Power worms, and Tiki worms
  • 4" YUM Dinger
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless
  • Yum Dingers Wacky Rigged Green Pumpkin.
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • Berkeley powerbait worm
  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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 mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Shakey Head
  • Shakey Head
    The 2 bass I caught that counted toward our limit were:
    1lb 9oz, and 1lb 4oz
    8 other Bass between 13in and 10in
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.

    My limit was:
    1-1/2lber
    1lb 6oz
    1-1/4lber
    Two 1lbers
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
  • Our 5 fish limit was
    2-1/4lbs (Fred)
    1lb 5oz (Fred)
    1lb 2oz (Me)
    two 1lb 1oz (Me)

    Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
  • My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
  • Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers

    I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber
  • 3 shorts

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Black senko worm
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • blue reble
  • blue silver reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • yo-zuri crystal minnow

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

  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • slow retrieve
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
  • Today, 10/31/08, used a 1" sinking Rapala, white and silver while drifting. I usually use a Kreature bait, green with black specks or Brown with purple specks.
  • 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Northland minnow
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • 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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Plastic Jerk Bait

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • chartruse power bait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Both Wollfish were also caught on cut clam baits. These fish are most certainly the hardest fighting specimens I have ever tangled with on one of these trips. The rod bent right over and the spool went slowly as they fought for every foot of the 250 feet they were pulled from.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Once again the bait of choice was cut clams. I have learned since last year that the key to using clam bait is to use a small a peice as possible in combination with getting a good peice of stomach.
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.

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