Fishing near Plympton in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
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Plympton Fishing Photos

0.3 lb Bluegill near Plympton

0.3 lb Bluegill

Caught on diving frog bait
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614/14 - E. Monponsett near Plympton

614/14 - E. Monponsett

13th place @ 3.31lbs
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Top Fishing Spots near Plympton

Indian Pond
Indian Pond

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Monponsett Ponds
Monponsett Ponds

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Indian Pond
Indian Pond

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Jones River
Jones River

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West Monponset Lake
West Monponset Lake

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Silver Lake
Silver Lake

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Plympton Area Fish Species

Recent Plympton Fishing Reports

East Monponsett Lake - First Largemouth ever and PB! Fishing Report Jul 17, 2015

East Monponsett Lake - First Largemouth ever and PB!

East Monponsett Lake, MA -

Went out along the Southwestern bank looking for structure. I caught a 0.3 lb Bluegill, and a nice 4.6 lb Largemouth! First largemouth I have ever cau...

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6/14/14 - MA B.A.S.S. Pro-Am @ Monponsett Fishing Report Jun 16, 2014

6/14/14 - MA B.A.S.S. Pro-Am @ Monponsett

East Monponsett - Halifax, MA -

3rd of 4 tournaments for this trail this year. I've never fished either East or West. This set-up was a little different than the normal. A permit...

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East Monponsett Lake Monday -daytime trip  Fishing Report Jul 28, 2015

East Monponsett Lake Monday -daytime trip

East Monponsett Lake, MA -

Took the girlfriend out on her first fishing trip in a kayak and she caught 3 Bluegill, all in the .2lb -.4 lb range, and then she caught a white per...

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East Monponsett Slaughter!!! Fishing Report Jul 31, 2015

East Monponsett Slaughter!!!

East Monponsett Lake, MA -

Caught 7 fish in all! A bunch of bluegill, a sunfish and three white perch. I fished early afternoon to about 7 in the evening. All were caught on a #...

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Back to Plympton Fishing Report May 26, 2014

Back to Plympton

Plympton, MA -

Headed back to the same area that we were getting them on Tuesday. Got out there and again started slinging the frog. Had about 5 in the boat in the f...

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last trip to monponsett pond Fishing Report Nov 14, 2009

last trip to monponsett pond

hanson/halifax, ma -

my last trip to the pond I was able to hook and land a nice 4 lber and it was on 6 lb test line. a very good season on monponsett pond...

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Baits and Tackle used near Plympton

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • eels on the bottom
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Fresh Mackerel
  • Shiners on a bobber

Creature Check Prices

  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • Live minnow under a float
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • mumpers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • 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
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • 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
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
  • Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
  • 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
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops lazer Eye spinnerbait, nickel dual willow blades
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • 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
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • 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
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • LONG PURPLE WORM,, WILL SEE IN MY PHOTO
  • Senko worms, Power worms, and Tiki worms
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • Watermelon Green Bass Pro Jerk Bait 6 in worms
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament 6 in worms.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color worm, rigged texas style on a Gamakatsu G Lock 2/0 hook. It was on a medium action spinning rod with 8LB mono. A real good fight.

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
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • Shakey Head
  • 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
  • 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 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait

Craw Check Prices

  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue silver reble
  • blue reble
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait

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

  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.
  • 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.
  • slow retrieve
  • using an excalibur rayburn red crankbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • sexy shad lipless crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • trout worms
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.

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.
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing

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 with a tail.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • chartruse power bait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Cut mackerel

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