Fishing near Mashpee in Barnstable County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 134
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 245
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Dean's Pond near Mashpee

Dean's Pond

Popponesset in mashpee
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5/16/15 - John's Pond Largemouth near Mashpee

5/16/15 - John's Pond Largemouth

4 Fish (3 Largemouth & 1 Smallmouth) @ 7.45lbs including 3.72lb Tounament Lunker good for 7th place
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First Bass of 2012 near Mashpee

First Bass of 2012

3 pounder to start the year!
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Big Fish Of The Day 4lb 11oz near Mashpee

Big Fish Of The Day 4lb 11oz

New Years Day 2012 4lb 11oz
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5/21/16 - John's near Mashpee

5/21/16 - John's

8th place limit @ 6.11lbs for the back of the boat
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personal best near Mashpee

personal best

5-1/4 LM
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Top Fishing Spots near Mashpee

Popponsset Bay
Popponsset Bay

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Hamblin Pond
Hamblin Pond

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Mashpee River
Mashpee River

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Quashnet River
Quashnet River

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Waquoit Bay
Waquoit Bay

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Childs River
Childs River

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Mashpee Area Fish Species

Recent Mashpee Fishing Reports

Popponesset pond fishing Fishing Report Aug 09, 2013

Popponesset pond fishing

Dean's Pond, Mashpee, Ma -

Many sunfish and bluegill caught on live worms
6 perch caught on live worms
2 largemouth bass caught on live perch...

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vacation in juyy Fishing Report Jul 28, 2008

vacation in juyy

falmouth ma. -

It rain all week but had a good time ....

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5/16/15 - Avid Anglers @ John's Pond Fishing Report May 20, 2015

5/16/15 - Avid Anglers @ John's Pond

John's Pond - Mashpee, MA -

2nd club tournament of the year (4th out of 5 for the "2015" season). This was a new location for Avid, and for myself as well. We were all ...

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January 1st 2012 New Years Day Bassin' Fishing Report Jan 01, 2012

January 1st 2012 New Years Day Bassin'

Johns POnd -

Location : Johns Pond Mashpee
Conditions : Absolutely Gorgeous
Temp (low) 35 (high) 51
Water Temp 41 to 43 degrees
Wind SW 5 Mph Max

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5/21/16 - Avid Anglers @ John's Pond Fishing Report Jun 14, 2016

5/21/16 - Avid Anglers @ John's Pond

John's Pond - Mashpee, MA -

CLub Tourney here last month. Spawn tourney, but the cold front played a role in the tougher bite. Lot's of small fish around. I caught about 20 S...

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johns pond personal best Fishing Report Nov 26, 2011

johns pond personal best

mashpee -

hi guys. got down johns pond @ 9:30 to try my luck at some smallies (never targeted them before) I think i need lessons!! for 4 hrs I tried some hair ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Mashpee

Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
    1st was 11-1/2"
    2nd was 6"
  • Drop Shot
  • shrimp/clams, 1/2OZ sinker, tiny hook
  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
  • Ultra light mitchell spidercast reel combo 4lb test, fun fun fun. when the bass aren't hitting
  • frogs
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • Worm
  • Rubber worm Wacky Style

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

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
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 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
  • Spinnerbait, Drop shot
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • Silver in line spinner
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER
  • 1st was 1-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, white skirt, double-willow blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Squid Check Prices

  • squid and minnows
  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Joes fly
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
    1st - 12in
    2nd -12 1/4in
    4th - 12 1/2in
  • one 11-1/2in and one 14.5in 1lb 6oz

Worm Check Prices

  • Started with pumpkinseed lizard and switched to 5" baby bass senko
  • 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
  • 4 inch green pumkin senko rigged wacky
  • Senko
  • Berkley 7" Black Shad
    Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
  • Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style
  • Wacky Style
  • 5" senko worms, wacky style. Used alot of scent, and kept bait moving, bumping it off the bottom.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Bladed baits
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Only one keeper out of the 5 I caught and in was 12" 3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3.72lb Tourney Lunker
    Other two were 1-1/2lbs each
  • My limit was:
    2.30lbs
    Three 1lbers
    13oz

  • Dropshot
  • 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
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • All between 11" & 11-1/2"

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

Craw Check Prices

  • Our Bag was:
    Paul's 3.85lber, 3-1/2lber, one a little over 2lbs, and my 3-1/2lber
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • deceivers,silversides,sand eel paterns

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x 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

  • Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
    Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
  • 3 on Squarebill, 1 on Drop Shot.
  • 2lb 6oz, and 1lb 2oz
  • rapala bleeding floater
  • Rapala Original Floater F-11 - Minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig

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
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • chartruse power bait
  • Sand Eels
  • hot dog

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