Fishing near New Salem in Franklin County, MA

3.83 Rating based on 148 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 89
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 176
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Quabbin Reservoir near New Salem

Quabbin Reservoir

man I love this place
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Smallmouth near New Salem

Smallmouth

A must fish in Ma. You can rent boats, put in your own, and shore fish. All rule and regs can be found on Masswildlife website.
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Top Fishing Spots near New Salem

Quabbin Reservoir
Quabbin Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
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East Branch Swift River
East Branch Swift River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3780

Wyola Reservoir
Wyola Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1712

West Branch Swift River
West Branch Swift River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 2326

East Branch of Swift River
East Branch of Swift River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
Views: 1519

Fort River
Fort River

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 1590

New Salem Area Fish Species

Recent New Salem Fishing Reports

Western Ma Fishing Report May 19, 2008

Western Ma

Quabbin Res -

Smallmouth...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Lunker Lady Land Fishing Report May 18, 2013

Lunker Lady Land

Quabbin Reservoir -

My buddy Dunt and I headed out West to Lunker Lady Land yesterday. The weather report was perfect for site fishing. We got up wicked early, packed u...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Quabbin Res 5/20/2012 Fishing Report May 21, 2012

Quabbin Res 5/20/2012

Quabbin Reservoir -

Me and the Bassasin's hit the Q on Sunday for some smallie action. We had heard that they were hanging out in the 15-20 ft range but couldn't...

Avg. Rating: 5
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1st time at quabbin 4/21/13 Fishing Report Apr 21, 2013

1st time at quabbin 4/21/13

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me and my buddy Mike went to quabbin reservoir today. we left my house at 330 this morning. We got to gate 43 at about 4:30 and waited till 5:50 to ge...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Quabbin Fishing Report Aug 26, 2009

Quabbin

Quabbin Reservoir -

A paid day off from work sounds like fishing to me, so I called up one of my buddies from back home (NY) and we decided to meet half way - at the Quab...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Quabbin Laker Fishing Report May 30, 2014

Quabbin Laker

Quabbin -

Out on the Quabbin Wednesday with my oldest son, Mickey, and his buddy, Brady. Cool day to say the least. We're on the water at 6:30 and I've ...

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Baits and Tackle used near New Salem

Check Prices

  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • senco
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • frogs and senkos
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • 6" Senkos
  • shinners
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Big shiners
  • dilly worms

Creature Check Prices

  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Tube Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • large shiners on trokar hooks

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • Popper

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • senkos
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
  • Surprised I only got one today!

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
  • Crawfish style.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Grub Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Big
    Dead
  • Powerbait rainbow

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