Fishing near Pembroke in Plymouth County, MA

3.54 Rating based on 405 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 187
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 964
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Top Fishing Spots near Pembroke

Furnace Pond
Furnace Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 6
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Oldham Pond
Oldham Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 6
Views: 9646

Great Sandy Bottom Pond
Great Sandy Bottom Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 4915

Indian Head River
Indian Head River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5197

Upper Chandler Pond
Upper Chandler Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Little Sandy Pond
Little Sandy Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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Pembroke Area Fish Species

Recent Pembroke Fishing Reports

Pre-July 4th trip Fishing Report Jul 04, 2011

Pre-July 4th trip

South Shore -

Got out on 7/3/11 from about 9:15am to 12:30 on a local south shore park. It was cloudy with a little sun to start, pretty calm water. Water temp. in...

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2nd Time is a Charm Fishing Report Apr 04, 2012

2nd Time is a Charm

Pembroke, MA -

Cut out of work early today to shore fish from 330-5pm. Water was calmer than I would have liked fishing from shore. I was fishing a T-rigged creatur...

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Pembroke Fishing Report May 18, 2014

Pembroke

Pembroke -

Some nice weather to get out. Found a small pond out in Pembroke to spend the day at. Hit LM Bass, Perch and pickerel all day. Most bites came in spur...

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Hobomock Pond with the Fam Fishing Report Jul 20, 2013

Hobomock Pond with the Fam

Hobomock pond -

Small pond in Pembroke that has a private side that I have access too. Brought my son (12) and daughter (2 1/2). A buddy and his daughter (7) came as ...

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KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS-JULY 11-FURNACE POND,PEMBROKE Fishing Report Jul 11, 2015

KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS-JULY 11-FURNACE POND,PEMBROKE

Furnace Pond -

Parking: No problem!
Big Boat Traffic: No problem!

The action today was good for some and not as good for others. As he has done in the past...

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Fun in the Furnace Fishing Report Apr 26, 2015

Fun in the Furnace

Furnace Pond, Pembroke, MA -

My son and I made up for a miserable attempted trip on my birthday last Friday. We hit Furnace Pond in Pembroke and were not disappointed. Just one ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Pembroke

Check Prices

  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • just casst
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • Black Spinner bait
  • Saleemander carolina rigged
  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • black and red spinner dual spoons and trailer hook low and slow in the weeds

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • Used a silver/black top water popper, cast under overhanging brush and near the weeds, every few cranks I'd give a slight jerk and it drove them nuts
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • 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
  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • berkley slug
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • Mann's Shadow

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • I drop in a spinner or crank bait. Make sure it is loud and early in the am. I work it from the shore and let it sink at the drop off or run it deep along the drop
  • Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • med speed retrieve

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • 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
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • 4in senkos in various colors

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • Watermelon Green Bass Pro Jerk Bait 6 in worms
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament 6 in worms.
  • Senko worms, Power worms, and Tiki worms
  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko

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
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 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 big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue silver reble
  • blue reble
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • slow retrieve
  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • 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

  • 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
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Northland minnow
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.

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
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • regular silver spoon
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • trout worms
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • 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.
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Herring Check Prices

  • 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

  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

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


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  • Cut mackerel
  • chartruse power bait
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.

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