Fishing near Milton in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 228
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Thursday Night Rainbows near Milton

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Big Perch near Milton

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The Catch near Milton

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Houghton hawg near Milton

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Turtle Pond
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Ponkapoag Pond
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Milton Area Fish Species

Recent Milton Fishing Reports

Thursday Night Rainbows Fishing Report Mar 29, 2013

Thursday Night Rainbows

Houghton's Pond, Milton MA -

Went to Houghton's Pond after work last night and fished for about an hour and caught 3 nice Rainbow Trout, all 3 bows are holdovers for sure....

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Nailing stockies at Houghton's Fishing Report Mar 20, 2016

Nailing stockies at Houghton's

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Caught 4 stocked rainbow trout at Houghton's pond today. Powerbait is the way to go....

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Great Day at Houghton's Pond Fishing Report Jul 10, 2015

Great Day at Houghton's Pond

Houghton's Pond -

I went over to Houghton's today, expecting to get some stocked rainbows from my slip-rig w/ Powerbait, but ended up getting no bites at all. So th...

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Houghtons Pond Fishing Report Jun 14, 2012

Houghtons Pond

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Great morning to really get back into fishing got down to pond around 9:30am fished for an hour and the bass were wild! 3 times as soon as the cast hi...

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Celtics pregame... Fishing Report May 17, 2012

Celtics pregame...

Houghton's Pond, Milton MA -

Went to old faithful (Houghton's Pond) last night to kill sometime before the Celtics game. Fished using powerbait for about an hour and didn'...

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Hougton's Again! Fishing Report May 14, 2012

Hougton's Again!

Houghton's Pond, Milton MA -

In honor of my mother who taught me how to fish I decided to hit on of my favorite spots. Arrived at Houghton's Pond at 5pm, there were plenty of ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Milton

Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Nightcrawler
  • Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
  • earthworm
  • white spinner bait
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
  • weedless yamamaoto bright green crayfish with a squid-like skirt on the front.
  • bacon
  • Bacon. 5/0 hook, 1-ounce egg sinker
  • Bacon on the bottom. 5/0 hook, one-ounce egg sinker.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • 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.
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Live eels
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.

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
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Dead minnows
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • 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
  • shiner
  • Shiners under a bobber.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Jitterbug
  • pencil popper
  • 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
  • Hula Popper
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
  • 3inch Black Jitterbug
  • Black Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • 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
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • green w/ red fleck
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • 8" Pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass berkley slug
  • berkley slug
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • 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.
  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
  • use orange spinner.. blue fox
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
  • my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
    the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • 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
  • Spro Frog
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • 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
  • rapala
  • 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
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Rooster Tail
  • Gold spinner
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • rooster tail
  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 8", 9", and 12" 10oz Smallies
  • 1st was 8in
    2nd was 13-3/4" 1lb

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

  • Green Pumpkin 4" senko, weightless, texas-rigged.
  • Berkley Power Work
  • 6" Senko in Green Pumpkin. Fished in an unweighted Texas-rig with a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • watermelon red and black plastic worm
  • green pumpkin senko
  • green pumpkin w black flakes senko
  • purple senko
  • caught 1 on senko worm, 1 on spinner bait, 1 on Rebel minnow
  • 5" baby bass senko & popper
  • Pink Strike King Finesse Worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 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
  • xps swimbait
  • 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.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

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

  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • blue silver reble
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

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
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • j9 black/gold
  • slow slow slow presentation
  • Rat-l-trap
  • 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.
  • Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
  • Deep diver Purple slow retreive
  • - White (Bass Pro)

    - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • 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.
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Northland tackle Jungle Jig
    3/8 oz Watermelon w/ blackflake, matching zoom chunk trailer
  • Booyah boo jig watermelon,
    Zoom chunk trailer

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • 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.
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • regular silver spoon
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • trout worms
  • live worm on float
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • night crawler on a float
  • Kids materials
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • nice large nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Greyish, green, red face

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral
  • Herring Chunk

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Powerbait
  • Cut mackerel
  • Power bait
  • yellow power eggs
  • yellow power bait
  • Yellow power eggs
  • 3 Berkley Gulp Salmon Eggs on a treble hook floating from the bottom about 8-10inches high.
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.

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