Fishing near Boston in Suffolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 214
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1976
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Brown Trout near Boston

Brown Trout

One of the brownies. Largest was 1.58 Lb
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Another Brown near Boston

Another Brown

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Smaller of the Brook Trout near Boston

Smaller of the Brook Trout

Believe this is a native?
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American Eel near Boston

American Eel

No fun trying to get these off in the darkness
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Snapper near Boston

Snapper

I shook him loose next to my yak and saved the lure...
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3 Perch near Boston

3 Perch

I'd of put more pictures, but on second glance, all 3 were identical.
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Top Fishing Spots near Boston

Dorchester Bay
Dorchester Bay

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Neponset River
Neponset River

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Pleasure Bay
Pleasure Bay

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Wards Pond
Wards Pond

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Jamaica Pond
Jamaica Pond

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# Reviews: 8
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Muddy River
Muddy River

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Boston Area Fish Species

Recent Boston Fishing Reports

Brown Trout Fishing Report Sep 22, 2014

Brown Trout

South of Boston -

Had a full day off and with the cold front coming in figured we would try to catch some trout. Going into the day my buddy and I have managed a career...

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2015 in Swing Fishing Report Apr 15, 2015

2015 in Swing

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Hit my favorite honey hole yesterday and today.

Yesterday: 5 minutes, 3 hits, family emergency.
Today: 1 hour. 3 very scrappy yellow perch,...

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Springtime schoolies Fishing Report May 28, 2013

Springtime schoolies

JFK Library, Dorchester, MA -

Had an hour or so to kill one afternoon. Hit a couple rips I saw at low tide and they were holding! 4 fish between 20-26"

All caught on a...

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3 Bluefish, One Striper, JFK/UMASS Fishing Report Sep 28, 2011

3 Bluefish, One Striper, JFK/UMASS

JFK Library, Dorchester, MA -

Had a great night the other night. Fished the incoming high for three hours, and the outgoing for another two.

Used very fresh chunks of macke...

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JFK UMASS Boston Bluefish Fishing Report Oct 20, 2011

JFK UMASS Boston Bluefish

JFK Library, Dorchester, MA -

Went out of the night of the 16th, into the morning of the 17th, the day after/of the boating disaster.

Conditions were ideal. Choppy water, i...

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Boston Harbor Bluefishin' Fishing Report Sep 20, 2011

Boston Harbor Bluefishin'

JFK Library, Dorchester, MA -

Sorry I haven't been on in a bit. Haven't been fishing much, but have been catching here and there. The freshwater bite has slowed down a bi...

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Baits and Tackle used near Boston

Check Prices

  • THE FRESHEST, BLOODIEST MACKEREL chunks. Nobody with store bought chunks were hitting anything.
  • 1/4 oz jig got a 3.75 largemouth
  • Floating seaworms, glowstick bobber technique.
  • Floating seaworms, glow in the dark stick on bobber.
  • Floating seaworms, glow in dark stick attached to bobber.
  • Black Gary Yamamoto Yamosenko rigged Texas.
  • Gold Blue fox spinner size 2
  • KASTMASTER PERCH COLOR OR SPOONS PERCH COLOR
  • HJ8 Rapala Husky jerk
  • 1/8 Rainbow Blue Fox Vibrax spinnerbait

    Yellow Size 3 Mepps Black Fury

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • 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
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Live eels
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • live mackerel
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • use small tube
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

  • Dead minnows
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Jitterbug
  • Hula Popper
  • 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
  • pencil popper
  • Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
  • 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
  • 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
  • 3inch Black Jitterbug
  • Black Jitterbug
  • BPS Popper, Texas special color.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • green w/ red fleck
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Baby bass lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • Senko.
  • Senko
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
  • use orange spinner.. blue fox
  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • 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.
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Spro Frog

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • rapala
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • 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
  • Rapala Original Silver

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • rooster tail
  • Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 8", 9", and 12" 10oz Smallies
  • 1st was 8in
    2nd was 13-3/4" 1lb
  • Both in the 10" Range
  • 2 7" Yellow Perch
  • 11", 9",8" all on the Rooster Tail
  • A 9", 11" 1/2lber, 12" 3/4lber

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

  • 4" Berkley power Bait, Pink and purple. Texas Rigged
  • Zoom Ultravibe Speed Worm in Junebug
  • used Bass Pro shaky heads pumpkin color. Slow at first, then I noticed they were right up against the wall/shore. Every time I swung the line they followed the worm, so i started dropping it letting it bounce off the wall and fall in and they were killing it
  • Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-Worm Salt Impregnated Bubblegum and Pumpkinseed/Chartreuse
  • Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-worm Salt Impregnated Bubblegaum
  • Bass Pro Shops Tournament Series Stik-o-worm Salt Impregnated Pumpkin Seed/Chartreuse
  • 5 inch Pumpkin Senkos, texas rigged
  • 5" Yum Dinger, black w/ blue fleck, weightless t-rig
  • Berkley power worm, texas rig, in junebug
  • Live trout worms

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • 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
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster tail

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • blue silver reble
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait

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
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rat-l-trap
  • 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.
  • Deep diver Purple slow retreive
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • 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.
  • j9 black/gold

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
  • Jig and pig in the bushes and trees
  • Booyah boo jig watermelon,
    Zoom chunk trailer
  • Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • 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

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • rattler
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • 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
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Greyish, green, red face

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • trout worms
  • live worm on float
  • night crawler on a float
  • Kids materials
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • 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

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Dropshot
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Power bait
  • yellow power eggs
  • yellow power bait
  • 3 Berkley Gulp Salmon Eggs on a treble hook floating from the bottom about 8-10inches high.
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
  • Chunked mackerel
  • Yellow power eggs

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