Fishing near Pelham in Hampshire County, MA

3.82 Rating based on 157 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 94
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 164
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Pelham Fishing Photos

February Ice Football!!! near Pelham

February Ice Football!!!

Hell of a fight!
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Another Look at Jon's Bass! near Pelham

Another Look at Jon's Bass!

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Jon's Hog! near Pelham

Jon's Hog!

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Another look at Dave's career ice bass. near Pelham

Another look at Dave's career ice bass.

4lbs 10 oz's
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Nice Bass near Pelham

Nice Bass

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Dave's Pig! near Pelham

Dave's Pig!

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Top Fishing Spots near Pelham

Fort River
Fort River

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

Metacomet Lake
Metacomet Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2431

Quabbin Reservoir
Quabbin Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 14678

Leverett Pond
Leverett Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 5168

Forge Pond (cooks Corner)
Forge Pond (cooks Corner)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1735

Lake Warner
Lake Warner

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5347

Pelham Area Fish Species

Recent Pelham Fishing Reports

Three Wall Fish In One Outing!!! Fishing Report Feb 18, 2013

Three Wall Fish In One Outing!!!

Pond X -

Today I had plans to go out with Jon, Brian and Dave Burrows on a secret pond close to my house. I had only fished Boone this ice season so I was pum...

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Deadliest Catch!!! Fishing Report Jun 21, 2013

Deadliest Catch!!!

Lake Boone -

My buddy Jon and I got out for a couple hours on Boone for some mid-week angling. We fished about half the time and shot-the-s*** the other half as w...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Out on Metacomet Lake Fishing Report Jul 28, 2010

Out on Metacomet Lake

Metacomet Lake, Belchertown, MA -

I went out during early May for about 6 hours one day and just pulled in bass after bass using worms and rubber frogs. I caught them all in about 1.5...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Metacomet - Belchertown Fishing Report Jan 10, 2013

Metacomet - Belchertown

Lake Metacomet, Belchertown -

Went out Wed. Morning to R&R Sports in Belchertown to pick up shiners. They were out. I talked with 3 different area bait shops and all have run out o...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Crankin' for a limit & Giant!!! Fishing Report Apr 02, 2013

Crankin' for a limit & Giant!!!

Lake Boon, MA -

I started a solo trip of angling around 1:30pm as I left my launch on this raw day. About 5 minutes into the trip and I realized that I needed gloves...

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puffers pond  Fishing Report Jun 18, 2010

puffers pond

puffers pond. Amherst, MA -

went to puffers pond in Amherst ma with a buddy, caught 5 rainbows and a brown trout. largest of the group was probably 15" not sure of weight w...

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Baits and Tackle used near Pelham

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • Flies and Jigs
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • shinners
  • senco
  • frogs and senkos
  • 6" Senkos
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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
  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

  • Popper

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • 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

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

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..

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • yellow dancin eel
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits

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

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.
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • KVD 5" 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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

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
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Big
    Dead
  • Chicken Liver
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs

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