Fishing near Petersham in Worcester County, MA

3.84 Rating based on 141 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Rainbow Trout, Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 95
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 221
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Petersham Fishing Photos

smallie near Petersham

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1st smallie of 2012
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Dunt's biggest smallie near Petersham

Dunt's biggest smallie

3.14 smallie
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mikes smalley near Petersham

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Top Fishing Spots near Petersham

East Branch of Swift River
East Branch of Swift River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
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East Branch Swift River
East Branch Swift River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3780

Quabbin Reservoir
Quabbin Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 14678

Lake Rohunta
Lake Rohunta

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2863

Queen Lake
Queen Lake

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1380

Bates Power Reservoir
Bates Power Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2564

Petersham Area Fish Species

Recent Petersham Fishing Reports

Quabbin Res 5/20/2012 Fishing Report May 21, 2012

Quabbin Res 5/20/2012

Quabbin Reservoir -

Me and the Bassasin's hit the Q on Sunday for some smallie action. We had heard that they were hanging out in the 15-20 ft range but couldn't...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Pottapaug Fishing Report May 23, 2015

Pottapaug

Pottapaug, Gate 3 of the Quabbin -

Greatest day of fishing I have ever had! We got on the water and I went to a totally different side of the pond than I normally do. We come up on some...

Avg. Rating: 5
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1st time at quabbin 4/21/13 Fishing Report Apr 21, 2013

1st time at quabbin 4/21/13

quabbin res -

me and my buddy Mike went to quabbin reservoir today. we left my house at 330 this morning. We got to gate 43 at about 4:30 and waited till 5:50 to ge...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Lunker Lady Land Fishing Report May 18, 2013

Lunker Lady Land

Quabbin Reservoir -

My buddy Dunt and I headed out West to Lunker Lady Land yesterday. The weather report was perfect for site fishing. We got up wicked early, packed u...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Best outing of this year Fishing Report May 12, 2012

Best outing of this year

Small pond -

Hit the pond nice and early and kind of had my way with the bass for the morning. I caught 8 bass, biggest was 4.5 by my scale. Another was just under...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Quabbin Fishing Report Aug 26, 2009

Quabbin

Quabbin Reservoir -

A paid day off from work sounds like fishing to me, so I called up one of my buddies from back home (NY) and we decided to meet half way - at the Quab...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Baits and Tackle used near Petersham

Check Prices

  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • senco
  • 6" Senkos
  • frogs and senkos
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub
    Booyah Pad Crasher Hollow Body Frog
    KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Swimbait
  • wacky worms and spinnerbaits
  • smoke red flake senkos
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Green with gold belly swim bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Big shiners
  • dilly worms
  • Chung's Best
  • Shinners
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters

Creature Check Prices

  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Tube Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • Chung's Best
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Swimming the frog through the pads

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow

Worm Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • senkos
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
  • Senko
    1st was 11-3/4in
    2nd was 6in on the inline spinner
  • Junebug Zoom worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • Surprised I only got one today!

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • just a small piece

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • Big
    Dead
  • White Bread
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Candy
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