Fishing near Monterey in Berkshire County, MA

3.53 Rating based on 107 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Pumpkinseed, Rock Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 88
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 49
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Top Fishing Spots near Monterey

Lake Garfield
Lake Garfield

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Lake Buel
Lake Buel

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5211

Benedict Pond
Benedict Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3402

Abbey Lake
Abbey Lake

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 6116

Buck Lake
Buck Lake

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1352

Spectacle Pond
Spectacle Pond

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3503

Monterey Area Fish Species

Recent Monterey Fishing Reports

Bass Tournament Buel Lake, MA Fishing Report Jun 23, 2009

Bass Tournament Buel Lake, MA

Buel Lake, Hartsville MA -

8 boats showed up at Buel Lake in western MA for a 6am start. Weather was 60 degrees light wind blowing to the north, water temp was 70. degrees. We...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Benedict Pond Fishing Report Oct 10, 2007

Benedict Pond

Beartown state forest -

Camped & fished at Benedict Pond in Beartown State Forest (Monterey, MA) in mid August. My daughter caught countless sunfish and a couple yellow ...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Created by: kpmoose
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Ice fishing Goose Pond with Charter the Berkshires Fishing Report Feb 08, 2017

Ice fishing Goose Pond with Charter the Berkshires

Goose Pond Tyringham, MA -

I went out west to go ice fishing with Charter the Berkshires. On this occasion, I invited my friend Cole to come out with me. We signed up for the mo...

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Winter Break Ice Fishing Fishing Report Jul 12, 2019

Winter Break Ice Fishing

Western Massachusetts -

During my short winter break, myself and my Dad set up a trip to go ice fishing with Charter the Berkshires. On this occasion, we booked a private cha...

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Late report - Pike on the river ...  Fishing Report Nov 02, 2010

Late report - Pike on the river ...

Housatonic river @ Sheffield covered bridge -

Sorry for the late report ... way to much on the plate !! So - took a four days in Sept. to do some exploring of new water in western Ma. with my Brot...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Mass 2 Fishing Report Jul 30, 2010

Mass 2

Becket, MA -

Berkshire Forest MA ... Nottingham Lake...

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Baits and Tackle used near Monterey

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  • Bluegill
  • rubber grub
  • a good choice of bait for highland lake is shiners down about 13 feet with a weight to keep them down or nightcrawler allways work good too!!
  • spinner baits or buzz baits or small rapalas work very good here. live shiners hooked through the nose casted and retreved with a small split shot 6 inch in front of it works good too
  • my bait of choice for deep bass fishing in this spot is bouncing crawdads off the bottom or carolina rigged pumpkin seed power bait worms
  • decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • Tip ups baited with shiners
  • Drifting with a live minnow
  • Drifting with live minnows
  • used smalls up to mommalukes.
  • Medium to large minnows on a tip up
  • Large Shiner on a tip up.
  • small size minnow
  • medium size minnow on waited bobber.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • black buzz bait

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • About 5 inch golden shiner thin profile top-water shallow diver lure ...

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Red with black stripes/spots. dives 10-12ft. Small rattle noise.
  • yellow dancin eel

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White Rooster Tail
  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail
  • White rooster tail

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow
  • Red Eye bass will hit alot of the time in most of the coves and downed trees
  • caught sun fish after about 10 am. 1 small perch about 6in. fishing has been slow so far this season.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 4" lipless craink bait pumpkinseed colored.
  • 4" lipless crank bait, pumpkinseed coloring.
  • clacking rap

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • green back
  • a greenback stickbait

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • blue winged olive

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Silver blades, Red/white tail
  • silver blade, red/black tail
  • Silver, black/red tail
  • Gold blade, Yellow n red Tail
  • white tailed

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 2 inch, color gold and white

Nymph Check Prices

  • Copper John

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • purple rooster tail & live minnows

Worm Check Prices

  • 4 inch CobraBaits padle tail worm and 4 inch Gary Yamamoto strech 40 worm in green pumpkin.
  • Yam's off all sorts and colors... thats it.
    Also caught smallmouth and a couple of chain pickeral.
  • bass imitation rubber worm
  • Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
  • 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
  • spoom work well to.

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

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