Fishing near Templeton in Worcester County, MA

3.88 Rating based on 123 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 110
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 279
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Top Fishing Spots near Templeton

Kendall Pond
Kendall Pond

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Queen Lake
Queen Lake

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Perley Brook Reservoir
Perley Brook Reservoir

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Dunn Pond
Dunn Pond

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# Reviews: 5
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Bates Power Reservoir
Bates Power Reservoir

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# Reviews: 2
Views: 2564

Lake Denison
Lake Denison

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# Reviews: 1
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Templeton Area Fish Species

Recent Templeton Fishing Reports

2 Kayak rides. Awesome Tuesday morning before work. Fishing Report Jul 29, 2014

2 Kayak rides. Awesome Tuesday morning before work.

secret -

I had a 3-day weekend, and the fishing was lousy. I knew it would pick up this morning, and I work from home on Tuesdays. So I got up at 4:30, fished ...

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few bass to pass the time Fishing Report May 02, 2013

few bass to pass the time

lake superior -

Got a call from our good Maff friend Volume/Ted to fish Tuesday. Its been awhile since we have fished together. Ted is one of my favorites to fish wit...

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Yak's on the water finally Fishing Report Mar 22, 2012

Yak's on the water finally

Wrights Reservior, MA -

The lunch break trip got my blood pumping so after work I through the kayak in Wrights Reservior and Landed "The Monster" (She had to be pus...

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Small Pond Monster Fishing Report Oct 13, 2013

Small Pond Monster

Williamsville Pond, Ma -

Tiny ponds yield some pretty big fish as long as you upsize your bait. ...

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Froggin with fishngolf Fishing Report Jun 07, 2013

Froggin with fishngolf

Secret -

Get a call from fishngolf asking if I could make it out to his honey hole and of course I said hell yeah.Made the half hour drive to his little slice ...

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Lake Dennison Fishing Report Jul 17, 2013

Lake Dennison

Lake Dennison, Winchendon, Ma -

nice little family lake with fishing, a park and several locations to fish...

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Baits and Tackle used near Templeton

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Live Carwfish
  • dilly worms
  • Shinners
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Yellow Perch
  • Big Shinner

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • june bug tubes
  • June Bug tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • Medium shiner
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • 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.
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • red

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Swimming the frog through the pads

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Worm Check Prices

  • senkos
  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • senko
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
    spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
  • Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Crankbait Check Prices

  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank baits
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • brown
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • 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
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • 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.
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.

Wet Fly Check Prices

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster
  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • just a small piece
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet

Other Check Prices

  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • White Bread
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Corn and lots of it
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Cheapest bait on the planet
  • Green Power Bait
  • Corn
    Lots of it
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)

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