Fishing near Middleborough in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 224
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 836
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Tipsy take #1 near Middleborough

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Top Fishing Spots near Middleborough

Tispaquin Pond
Tispaquin Pond

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Assawompset Pond
Assawompset Pond

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# Reviews: 5
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Johns Pond (carver)
Johns Pond (carver)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Loon Pond (lakeville)
Loon Pond (lakeville)

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# Reviews: 2
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Nemasket River
Nemasket River

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# Reviews: 1
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Halifax Claybanks
Halifax Claybanks

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Middleborough Area Fish Species

Recent Middleborough Fishing Reports

Afternoon Frogging Fishing Report Jun 28, 2014

Afternoon Frogging

Middleboro, Carver -

Went out with the full intention of a long day of flipping seeing how is was blazing sunny. They weren't where we thought they would be so I start...

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Tispy take #1 Fishing Report May 17, 2015

Tispy take #1

Tispaquin Pd. -

Fished from 6:30-12 pm. 15 or so pickerel, 3 crappies, 2 bass!! Bass didn't appear to be on their beds!! It was a post spawn tough bite on the bas...

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Tispaquin pond Fishing Report Jul 28, 2012

Tispaquin pond

Tiaspaquin pond, MA -

Bigdarrin an I hit tispaquin at 5am stared out with a few top water hits on a frog an super spook near the lily pads but no hook-ups. moved out to de...

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Tispaquin Pond Fishing Report Jul 17, 2008

Tispaquin Pond

Tispaquin Pond -

Took my son fishing with my buddy Dan in his boat. 3rd cast with a Senko...( out deep, not by shore...) Shad color. Forgot the weight...his fish, n...

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my biggest bass Fishing Report Jul 11, 2010

my biggest bass

"somewhere in Middleboro" -

"somewhere in Middleboro" - I only made 3 casts with a white Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait - 3/8oz, double nickel willow blades. BIG ...

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Bass heaven? Fishing Report Nov 03, 2012

Bass heaven?

Bass heaven? -

lots of panfish in the pond also. i caught a couple of perch crappies and a sunfish. never caught any good bass here.
i said screw it im walking to...

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Baits and Tackle used near Middleborough

Check Prices

  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • black and red spinner dual spoons and trailer hook low and slow in the weeds
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • You can use just about any lures here, as we've had luck with all of em. Also, Nightcrawlers and shiners work good.
  • I used rubber worms,Surprised they hit the worms this early,My buddy was using shiners and caught a 5lbs.7oz largemouth,didn't include it in this trip,There not my points.
  • just casst
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • eels on the bottom
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • sandworms
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.

Creature Check Prices

  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • You already know
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • mumpers
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Live minnow under a float
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Shiner live lining.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike KingƃĀ‚Ć‚Ā® Spit-N-KingƃĀ‚Ć‚Ā® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rapala Poppers
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops lazer Eye spinnerbait, nickel dual willow blades
  • chartreuse 3/8 oz spinnerbait/w tandem chartreuse willowleaf blades. a chrome silver excalibur lipless crankbait. a heddon black bullfrog "crazy crawler". and strike king rage tail crawfish in dirty craw color.
  • 1/4oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ #4 nickel colorado blade
  • 1/4oz chartreuse/lime spinnerbait w/ colorado/willow twin nickel blades
  • 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
  • caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
  • wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
  • 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • white, double-nickel willow blades, 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged

Squid Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • Strike King Shim-E-Stick(Senko) in watermelon, black/red flake
  • 5" watermelon red/black flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick, rigged weightless tex-posed, 4" Yamamoto Senko, watermelon red/black/green flake, wacky-rigged
  • Watermelon colored SENKO worm, texas rigged with a small weight
  • Berkeley powerbait
  • Berkley power bait
  • Yamasenko Watermelon Tube Worm
  • Strike King Shim-E-Stick(like a Senko) in watermelon green with black/red flake
  • LONG PURPLE WORM,, WILL SEE IN MY PHOTO
  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • Wacky Style

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.

    My limit was:
    1-1/2lber
    1lb 6oz
    1-1/4lber
    Two 1lbers
  • Our 5 fish limit was
    2-1/4lbs (Fred)
    1lb 5oz (Fred)
    1lb 2oz (Me)
    two 1lb 1oz (Me)

    Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • Shakey Head
    The 2 bass I caught that counted toward our limit were:
    1lb 9oz, and 1lb 4oz
    8 other Bass between 13in and 10in
  • Shakey Head
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts

Craw Check Prices

  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • 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
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • 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
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • blue silver reble

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits
  • using an excalibur rayburn red crankbait
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
  • bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades
  • And Lipless Crank
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.
  • Today, 10/31/08, used a 1" sinking Rapala, white and silver while drifting. I usually use a Kreature bait, green with black specks or Brown with purple specks.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Northland minnow
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • gold little cleo
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • regular silver spoon

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • trout worms
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • chartruse power bait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • Powerbait

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