Fishing near Springfield in Hampden County, MA

3.65 Rating based on 139 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 95
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 189
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Springfield Fishing Photos

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Springfield fishing photo 2

A couple solid frog bass during the head's up match with Chuck.
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Big Fish Honors near Springfield

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Mike's Big Bass near Springfield

Mike's Big Bass

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Top Fishing Spots near Springfield

Watershops Pond
Watershops Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3962

Blunt Pond
Blunt Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1683

Van Horn Pond
Van Horn Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1320

Five Mile Pond
Five Mile Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.6
# Reviews: 5
Views: 4218

Lake Lorraine
Lake Lorraine

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4973

Loon Pond (springfield)
Loon Pond (springfield)

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3442

Springfield Area Fish Species

Recent Springfield Fishing Reports

watershop pond Fishing Report Sep 07, 2009

watershop pond

springfield,ma -

good bass fishing...

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 4 Views:
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A Variety of Catches on a Variety of Ponds! Fishing Report Jun 21, 2013

A Variety of Catches on a Variety of Ponds!

Mixed Ponds -

Hit up a few different ponds over the course of a couple days and enjoyed catching and netting some quality fish. During the trips I was able to fish...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Smokecity Lunker Tours 6lb 14oz Monster Fishing Report May 30, 2015

Smokecity Lunker Tours 6lb 14oz Monster

mixed ponds -

Whats up boys its been a long winter and im sure everyone is enjoying their time on the water.The last 2 weeks water temps have changed by 20 degrees ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Larry comes home Fishing Report Sep 14, 2010

Larry comes home

Quarry pond Spfld,Ma -

Finally got my Larry in a place i least expected. ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Five Mile Pond Fishing Report May 28, 2010

Five Mile Pond

Five mile pnd Springfield,Ma -

Went out early am with friend.Beautiful morning caught 3 lost 1. All rainbow trout biggest 1 was 15" just over 1 1/4 lbs...

Avg. Rating: 4
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5 milepond Fishing Report Sep 07, 2009

5 milepond

springfield,ma -

more bass...

Avg. Rating: 2
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Baits and Tackle used near Springfield

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • Flies and Jigs
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • mixed color senkos
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • Live Carwfish
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms
  • Big shiners

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • large shinners with a bobber
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • White and Red stick bait
  • Rapala blue and white rattle

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • meppes
  • Rooster Tail
  • rooster tail
  • black Rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • blue fox

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • senko
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • black senko
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • green pumpkin senko
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks
  • yum dinger watermelon

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • jig heads / swim tails
  • Senco stretch 40
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
  • jig heads and swim baits

Hard Baits Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • litle plastic minnows
  • small swimming minnow soft bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap
  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • yellow dancin eel
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • Booyah tiger

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • weighted Sluggo

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait rainbow
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Chicken Liver
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS
  • Candy
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  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait

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