Fishing near Royalston in Worcester County, MA

3.99 Rating based on 79 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 91
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 154
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Long Pond, Royalston MA near Royalston

Long Pond, Royalston MA

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Tully River Grub Eater near Royalston

Tully River Grub Eater

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Nice Pickerel near Royalston

Nice Pickerel

At my KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Swimbait
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Tully River Frog Eater near Royalston

Tully River Frog Eater

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Tully River Frog Eater (2) near Royalston

Tully River Frog Eater (2)

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6 lbs 4 oz. near Royalston

6 lbs 4 oz.

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Top Fishing Spots near Royalston

Tully Lake
Tully Lake

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Tully River
Tully River

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Tully Pond
Tully Pond

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Sportsman's Pond
Sportsman's Pond

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East Branch of Tully River
East Branch of Tully River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Laurel Lake
Laurel Lake

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Royalston Area Fish Species

Recent Royalston Fishing Reports

7-25-2015 - Tully River - Long Pond Fishing Report Jul 25, 2015

7-25-2015 - Tully River - Long Pond

Tully River - Long Pond, Royalston MA -

Returned to the same place I went last week. One thing about new places, you always want to try them twice. Now that we are getting deeper in the summ...

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7-19-2015: Tully River - Long pond Fishing Report Jul 19, 2015

7-19-2015: Tully River - Long pond

Tully River - Long Pond, Royalston, MA -

Departed home at 0415 this morning and launch the kayak into Tully River at 0500. Headed North toward Long Pond. Caught 3 Pickerel, 2 Largemouth Bass ...

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10-24-2015: Tully River - Long Pond Fishing Report Oct 24, 2015

10-24-2015: Tully River - Long Pond

Tully River - Long Pond -

Left the house at 0615 and arrived at the Tully River access at 0700. Loaded up the kayak and headed north on the river toward Long Pond. The sun hadn...

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1st kayak fishing ever got a 5lber Fishing Report Jul 12, 2014

1st kayak fishing ever got a 5lber

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I am hooked.. Spent a couple hr's on Tully river and Long Pond not far off rte 2 today with the hubby.. caught a bunch of small lmb's and one ...

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Tully Lake - Long Pond - Royalston Ma Fishing Report Aug 09, 2015

Tully Lake - Long Pond - Royalston Ma

Tully Lake -25 Doane Hill Rd, Royalston Ma -

Tully Lake - spent the day out on the water here. Put in is a small Kayak access point on Doane Rd. This place is worth the drive, it's a very nic...

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7-4-2015: Tully Lake Fishing Report Jul 04, 2015

7-4-2015: Tully Lake

Tully Lake, Royalston MA -

After fishing for 5 hours on Friday at West Waushacum Pond and catching 7 fish that were all small, I packed up the kayak and headed to Tully Lake. I ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Royalston

Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub
    Booyah Pad Crasher Hollow Body Frog
    KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Swimbait
  • frogs and senkos
  • senco
  • 6" Senkos
  • texes rigged senko
  • senko
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • wacky worms and spinnerbaits
  • smoke red flake senkos
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • dilly worms
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Moussies and wax worms

    pond shiners once cought for tip ups
  • moussies and wax worms
  • Live Carwfish

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug
  • early morning, or after sunset

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Crankbait Check Prices

  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • shallow running crank baits
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • Ripping a diving crankbait through and above developing weed beds.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • Live nightcrawlers dropping them off the canoe
  • Lures and live bait are good here but you have to be crafty and match the conditions.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.

    Lazily trolling.
  • Neon Orange 2-way spinner hook.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

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.

Worm Check Prices

  • senkos
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • senko wacky rigged
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dingers
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • 6 inch light green senko
  • yum 5" monny minnows white

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Other Check Prices

  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs

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