Fishing near Barnstable in Barnstable County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 151
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 267
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4/23/16 - Wequaquet near Barnstable

4/23/16 - Wequaquet

7th Place @ 4.04lbs
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4/23/16 - Wequaquet near Barnstable

4/23/16 - Wequaquet

7th place with 4.04lbs
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9/22/12 - Smallies that counted near Barnstable

9/22/12 - Smallies that counted

Part of my 4th place finish
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4/13/13 - Bass Nation Keeper Smallies near Barnstable

4/13/13 - Bass Nation Keeper Smallies

9th place with 3-1/2lbs
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Top Fishing Spots near Barnstable

Wequaquet Lake
Wequaquet Lake

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Long Pond (centerville)
Long Pond (centerville)

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Garrets Pond (aka Stewards Pond)
Garrets Pond (aka Stewards Pond)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2541

Shubael Pond
Shubael Pond

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Shallow Pond
Shallow Pond

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Hamblin Pond
Hamblin Pond

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Barnstable Area Fish Species

Recent Barnstable Fishing Reports

4/23/16 - Avid Anglers @ Wequaquet Fishing Report May 18, 2016

4/23/16 - Avid Anglers @ Wequaquet

Wequaquet Lake - Centerville, MA -

1st club tournament of the year. Brutal cold front had moved in, and that made for a tough bite. The gusty winds at times did not help. I was paired ...

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9/22/12 - Avid Anglers @ Wequaquet Lake Fishing Report Sep 23, 2012

9/22/12 - Avid Anglers @ Wequaquet Lake

Wequaquet Lake - Centerville, MA -

This is the 1st Avid club tournament for the 2013 season for us. 1st time I fished here in 2010 in a spawn tourney, and I got a big goose egg. Now I ...

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Wequaquet Fishing Report May 09, 2010

Wequaquet

Wequaquet -

1st tourny of the year. Mother nature brought it all on with heavy rain and wind w/lightning to start the day. pea size hail fell breifly, and a 1/2 h...

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9/28/14 - South Coast Bass Anglers Open @ Wequaquet Fishing Report Sep 30, 2014

9/28/14 - South Coast Bass Anglers Open @ Wequaquet

Wequaquet Lake - Centerville, MA -

Fished this tournament with my buddy Al. We had much better hopes for this, then the fishing showed us. Water temps we found were 67-68. Water was gla...

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4/13/13 - MA B.A.S.S. Nation Pro-Am @ Wequaquet Fishing Report Apr 15, 2013

4/13/13 - MA B.A.S.S. Nation Pro-Am @ Wequaquet

Wequaquet Lake - Centerville, MA -

Nice turn-out for the 1st B.A.S.S. Pro-Am of the season, 25 boaters, and 20 Co-Anglers. 40 degree air temps at take-off, water temps were 50-51 all da...

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Fall on the Cape Fishing Report Nov 03, 2013

Fall on the Cape

Cape Cod, MA -

Hit a few spots on the Cape for smallies but ended up with a mixed bag. Tough day with changing weather, cold water, and technical difficulties with ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Barnstable

Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
  • Drop Shot
    1st was 11-1/2"
    2nd was 6"
  • shrimp/clams, 1/2OZ sinker, tiny hook
  • 2in Jitterbug
  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
  • drop shot senko
  • Drop shot senko
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • frogs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eels
  • Sand Eels
  • Clams
  • We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
  • sea worms
  • seaworms
  • wroms
  • eels on the bottom
  • clam

Tube Check Prices

  • 1 Keeper:
    1-1/4lbs

    1 Short
  • 2 Keepers:
    1.79lbs
    1lb

    2 shorts
  • 3 for 7.99lbs
    One was about 2lbs, One about 3lbs, and my Lunker of the day was 3lbs 1oz

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
  • You already know
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiner live lining.
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Live minnow under a float
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a Super Spook Jr and 6" blue/black senkos.

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
  • 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig
  • Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard
  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 5 between 3" and 11"
  • This Big Bastard Stole My Lure!
  • berkley slug baby bass color

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinnerbait, Drop shot
  • Barbie color spinnerbait cranking from out from shore line. This fish hit in about 10 ft of water had a couple of more followers but that was it. Then the winds and rain picked up and it was tuff fishing from there on in .My boater caught a nice one about 4 hrs later with a crank bait and that was it on the hits fished many of the same spots as Micahel K draging jigs and tubes not a bite. big fish of the day was 6+ large mouth and a 5+ smallie
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
  • Silver in line spinner
  • 1st was 1-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb
  • tandem willow spinner baits, mostly chartruse and lime.
    and the 6" pumkin stick worms
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter

Squid Check Prices

  • squid and minnows

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • Jerk Bait
  • 4in senkos in various colors

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
    1st - 12in
    2nd -12 1/4in
    4th - 12 1/2in
  • one 11-1/2in and one 14.5in 1lb 6oz
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Joes fly
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Metal jigs with green tails on the hooks

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko
  • 4 inch green pumkin senko rigged wacky
  • Started with pumpkinseed lizard and switched to 5" baby bass senko
  • 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
  • AKA Black Magic
  • 4" YUM Dingers, Watermelon/Gold Flake
  • Long, thin, green worms worked amazingly well
  • drop shot senko
  • 4" senko
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Bladed baits
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
  • Dropshot
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • All between 11" & 11-1/2"
  • Two dinks on a Gary Yamamoto Fat Baby Craw, Texas-rigged with 1/8 oz weight, Watermelonseed.
    Two keepers on GY 5" Senko, watermelon (no seed).
  • Drop Shot
    1 Keeper @ 1-3/4lbs
    Four 11" range shorts
  • Keepers were:
    2.77lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1-1/2lbs
    1-1/4lbs

    One 11" short
  • Drop shot
  • 1lb, 3/4lb, 11', and 8" on the Drop Shot, 10" on C-Rig
  • My limit was:
    2.30lbs
    Three 1lbers
    13oz

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • berkley powerbait worm

Craw Check Prices

  • Our Bag was:
    Paul's 3.85lber, 3-1/2lber, one a little over 2lbs, and my 3-1/2lber

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 3 on Squarebill, 1 on Drop Shot.
  • 2lb 6oz, and 1lb 2oz
  • rapala bleeding floater
  • Rapala Original Floater F-11 - Minnow
  • Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
    Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
  • Rapala Perch
  • Relentless all day!!!!!
  • My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz

    Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
  • use bass jig # 10 with wire line
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • 1 1/2 ounce bucktail jig
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • on a Boag Hog Stand-Up Head
  • Northland minnow

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig
  • 33" was my other keeper
    And 4 Schoolies between 25"-15"

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Snapper Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • White grub
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Flies Check Prices

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Other Check Prices

  • Twitch twitch pause with a jerkbait
  • Sand Eels
  • hot dog
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • chartruse power bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds

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