Fishing near Stoughton in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Dolly Varden, Chain Pickerel, Arctic Char, Yellow Perch, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
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Ames Long Pond
Ames Long Pond

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Brockton Reservoir
Brockton Reservoir

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Bolivar Pond
Bolivar Pond

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Messinger Pond/silk Mill Conservation Area
Messinger Pond/silk Mill Conservation Area

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Shepard Pond
Shepard Pond

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Manns Pond
Manns Pond

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Recent Stoughton Fishing Reports

Sharing is caring, right? Fishing Report May 09, 2011

Sharing is caring, right?

Stoughton, MA -

I did not go fishing, well I kinda did, but just for lures at a deal that cannot be matched. I friend introduced me to this guy a year ago and he jus...

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Britton's Pond Fishing Report Jun 26, 2012

Britton's Pond

Brittons Pond, Stoughton, MA -

Very Shallow heavily weeded, on most days clear water pond, less than a mile off Stoughton Center. I fish this pond on both sides of School Street, pr...

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Brittons Pond Fishing Report Jun 10, 2014

Brittons Pond

Brittons Pond, MA -

Caught a nice Pickerel on a green worm Texas Rig. About 20 inches I'd say. I lost another one after he jumped up in the air....

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Harrison's Pond 5/11/10 Fishing Report May 11, 2010

Harrison's Pond 5/11/10

Harrison's Pond Stoughton, MA -

Went out on Harrison's in the boat with Wood, using rubber worms and trying out the new "Gulp" baits from Berkley. I hauled in 13 fish i...

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19in, 5lb Lunker Bass - New Personal Best! Fishing Report Jun 21, 2014

19in, 5lb Lunker Bass - New Personal Best!

Ames-Long Pond -

Been favoring Ames-Long Pond lately, so I've been going out on the kayak. At about 6:30 in the evening, I caught my personal best 19in, 5lb bass o...

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Panfish fishing with JUMBO perch surprise Fishing Report Nov 21, 2016

Panfish fishing with JUMBO perch surprise

Ames Long Pond, MA -

Since it's starting to get cold out, I decided to take a short trip to Ames to try and catch some crappie and perch. Despite the cold, the fish we...

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Baits and Tackle used near Stoughton

Check Prices

  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • Rubber worms, swimbaits
  • buzzbait and slug
  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
  • white spinner bait
  • earthworm
  • Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
  • Nightcrawler
  • Powerbait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • SEAWORMS
  • worm
  • slug
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • use small tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • texas rigged
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook

Minnow Check Prices

  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Shiners
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • White Mouse
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • topwater and worms
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • Rapala Poppers
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass berkley slug
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • berkley slug
  • Sluggo
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
  • using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • Fishing shore line
  • Fishing tree lines

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Spro Frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.

    Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 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
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Panther Martin
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • mepps agalia
  • Rooster Tail
  • Gold spinner
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • Green Worm, Texas Rig
  • Berkley Powerbait
  • green bass pro worm with purple flakes
  • senko baby bass 5"
  • Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Yamosenko rigged Texas.
  • Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
  • purple senko
  • Rootbeer senko
  • Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
  • 5" baby bass senko & popper

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • 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.
  • xps swimbait
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
    My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz

    what didn't make the cut:
    two 1lb 6oz
    half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
    one 14oz
    one short

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Rooster Tail
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue silver reble
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

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

  • slow slow slow presentation
  • was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
  • j9 black/gold
  • Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
  • shallow crank square almost matching bass color
  • kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.
  • Shallow Water Daiwa Crank. Fished slow
  • Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well
  • switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
  • 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • regular silver spoon
  • gold little cleo
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • trout worms
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • 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.
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Sea Worms
  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Cut mackerel
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Power bait
  • yellow power eggs
  • Yellow power eggs

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