Fishing near Mount Washington in Berkshire County, MA

3.38 Rating based on 84 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Pumpkinseed, Brown Trout, Rock Bass, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 69
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 43
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Pink Medusa caught larry!!! near Mount Washington

Pink Medusa caught larry!!!

Pretty awesome, right? haha
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Bend lip steelhead near Mount Washington

Bend lip steelhead

Bend lip on steelhead caught by barbie rod!!!
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Bend lip steelhead near Mount Washington

Bend lip steelhead

Bend lip on steelhead caught by barbie rod!!! Same fish from other picture.
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Second biggest steelhead ever.  near Mount Washington

Second biggest steelhead ever.

13 lbs steelhead!!!!
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My personal best steelhead ever!  near Mount Washington

My personal best steelhead ever!

13.11 lbs steelhead!!!
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Barbie is a king!  near Mount Washington

Barbie is a king!

Barbie rod landed her personal best 10.10lbs steelhead!!! How impressive is that?!
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Top Fishing Spots near Mount Washington

Webatuck Creek
Webatuck Creek

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Washining Lake (East Twin Lake)
Washining Lake (East Twin Lake)

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Housatonic River
Housatonic River

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
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Roeliff-Jansen Kill
Roeliff-Jansen Kill

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Konkapot River
Konkapot River

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Lake Mansfield
Lake Mansfield

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Mount Washington Area Fish Species

Recent Mount Washington Fishing Reports

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...

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Twin Lakes Fishing Report May 05, 2009

Twin Lakes

twin lakes -

Showed up aroun 3pm and and left around 9. started off for bass then ended up trolling by 730, 8oclock. final tally was about 8 rockbass up to 11&quo...

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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...

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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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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 ...

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Mudge pond Fishing Report Jan 11, 2009

Mudge pond

Mudge pond -

Headed out to mudge for sun up locked down the shore line at verying depths Chester had two chew n screws and one lil pickerell,
cousin nicky 0 f...

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Baits and Tackle used near Mount Washington

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  • 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
  • Bluegill
  • decent spot, watch for shallow rocks, about 10 to 12 feet beyond the point, very acessable with a canoe
  • 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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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.
  • small size minnow
  • medium size minnow on waited bobber.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • black buzz bait

Crankbait Check Prices

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

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

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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • green back
  • a greenback stickbait

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Hendrickson Emerger, Hendrickson Comparadun,
  • 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

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • purple rooster tail & live minnows

Nymph Check Prices

  • Copper John

Worm Check Prices

  • bass imitation rubber worm
  • 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.
  • Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
  • 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

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