Fishing near Westfield in Hampden County, MA

3.51 Rating based on 132 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 99
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 168
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Largemouth near Westfield

Largemouth

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Westfield fishing photo 2

threw my waders on went out and caught first bass out of open first day of spring
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Bass Tournament near Westfield

Bass Tournament

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Top Fishing Spots near Westfield

Buck Pond
Buck Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4756

Chapin Pond
Chapin Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2152

Manhan River
Manhan River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3094

Woronoco Dam
Woronoco Dam

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1689

Hampton Ponds
Hampton Ponds

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 6795

Russell Pond
Russell Pond

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Westfield Area Fish Species

Recent Westfield Fishing Reports

day at the brickyards Fishing Report Mar 27, 2012

day at the brickyards

Brickyards, westfield, MA -

decided to go hit up the brick yards and throw some crank baits i showed up there and first thing i got a hit on my yellow dancin eel but no bites af...

Avg. Rating: 4
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New boat first fish Fishing Report Apr 18, 2015

New boat first fish

Congamond Lakes -

got the day off on Tuesday and was itching to get the new boat out. Launched at Congamond around 930 after the rain had passed. began just to putt put...

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Congamond Connoisseur Fishing Report Jun 08, 2009

Congamond Connoisseur

Congamond Lake, MA -

I dipped a few "feet" into Mass. for fishing on Congamond. A lot of big bass there....

Avg. Rating: 4
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Congamond Connoisseur 2 Fishing Report Jul 29, 2009

Congamond Connoisseur 2

Congamond Lake, MA -

I got up for fishing at 4:30 and caught a couple of nice largemouth....

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Hidden Gem Fishing Report Mar 19, 2016

Hidden Gem

Feeding Hills -

Farm Pond fishing...

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Bass  Tournament Congamond Lake Fishing Report Jul 06, 2009

Bass Tournament Congamond Lake

Congamond Lake, Southwick MA. -

Start time was 5:30am 67 degrees and partly cloudy. Water temp was 74 degrees. When to a spot I found pre-fishing the day before a small hump in the...

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Baits and Tackle used near Westfield

Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • rubber grub
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • mixed color senkos
  • Bluegill
  • shinners
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • Flies and Jigs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait

Minnow Check Prices

  • Drifting with a live minnow
  • Drifting with live minnows
  • Tip ups baited with shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Rubber frog

Lizard Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White Rooster Tail
  • White rooster tail
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Phoebe and 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
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • White and Red stick bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT
  • Copper John

Worm Check Prices

  • senko
  • Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
  • 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Yam's off all sorts and colors... thats it.
    Also caught smallmouth and a couple of chain pickeral.
  • black senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.
  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis
  • clacking rap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
  • purple rooster tail & live minnows

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • purple
  • 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

Other Check Prices

  • Chicken Liver
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • 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
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait

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