Fishing near West Brookfield in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, American Shad, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 121
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 381
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Jareds Lunka near West Brookfield

Jareds Lunka

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Lee 2nd Place near West Brookfield

Lee 2nd Place

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Brian 1st Place near West Brookfield

Brian 1st Place

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My Second One near West Brookfield

My Second One

We made a full dinner for four on what we caught today---had we not agreed to catch release and record 'em all
ha ha ha . . . .
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Get In There near West Brookfield

Get In There

now thats a fishing partner right there !
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My Quaboag Catch near West Brookfield

My Quaboag Catch

This place was good after the kayak traffic slowed down between 6-7pm or so
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Top Fishing Spots near West Brookfield

Wickaboag Pond
Wickaboag Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
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Quaboag River
Quaboag River

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
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Quaboag Pond
Quaboag Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
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East Brookfield River
East Brookfield River

Avg. Rating: 1.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1557

Lake Lashaway
Lake Lashaway

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Fivemile River
Fivemile River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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West Brookfield Area Fish Species

Recent West Brookfield Fishing Reports

Wickabog BVBA Tourny Fishing Report Jun 04, 2012

Wickabog BVBA Tourny

Wickabog -

Beautiful Day was had with my BVBA buddies! Bass bite was a little weird for me but after a coupla hrs, after breaking off a good un, I found Lms alon...

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Local Pond  Fishing Report Feb 08, 2014

Local Pond

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Big old cat pulled through the ice ...

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Brimfield II slight return---Quaboag River Redemtion Fishing Report Jul 03, 2011

Brimfield II slight return---Quaboag River Redemtion

Quaboag River @ 148 -

-----Got skunked here last week(my first time out in years)inland anyways,I prefer the Ocean,but,I digress.We get there at 1pm...place is stone cold s...

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Quabaug River - Brookfield Ma 8/16/15 Fishing Report Aug 16, 2015

Quabaug River - Brookfield Ma 8/16/15

Quabaug River - Brookfield Ma -

Great day to be in a Kayak Fishing.

We went to the Quabaug River in Brookfield Ma and spent the day on the water / river. Access point was the...

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First trip to Quabog Fishing Report Apr 16, 2011

First trip to Quabog

Quabog, Brookfield Ma. -

Finally dragged my boat out and got a chance to do a first outing and shakedown run!! Went out for about 2 hours between 6 and 8 pm after work. Spent ...

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8-19-2015: Quaboag Pond Fishing Report Aug 19, 2015

8-19-2015: Quaboag Pond

Quaboag Pond, Brookfield MA -

Been "rutting" in the fishing schedule, working over the same bodies of water. This morning I decided to go someplace new that I haven't...

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Baits and Tackle used near West Brookfield

Check Prices

  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • Dead Bait
  • Senko
    Kivas
    Rubber Frog
  • big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Big shiners
  • Live Carwfish
  • Chung's Best
  • Perfect size Kivas
  • Shiinners
  • Hand size Kivas
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters

Creature Check Prices

  • Carolina Rig
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Tube Check Prices

  • drop shots and topwater
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • june bug tubes
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • June Bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • 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.
  • Chung's Best
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies
  • live bait old school
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
  • Popper
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Fast retrieve
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • 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.
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • 6" and 8" on inline spinner
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner

Worm Check Prices

  • Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
  • junebug w/blue fleck
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • green pumpkin senko
  • Gary Yamamoto™®
    5inch Watermelon/Lemon
    The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
  • short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • 5" senko
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • 6 inch light green senko
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
  • All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
  • 1-1/4lber was my best
    bunch of 1lbers and shorts
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
    The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
  • 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
  • Drop shot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Gulp Alive
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • Rooster tail
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Booyah tiger
  • Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
  • crankbaits and spinners
  • Squarebill, and dropshot
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • 1-1/2lber on Jig
    11" on Dropshot
  • All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
  • Crawfish style.
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 4"senko
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
  • 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.

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

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • just a small piece

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Big
    Dead
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • White Bread
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • powerbait yellow
  • Inline Spinner, Dropshot
    one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
  • Corn
    Lots of it

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