Fishing near Phillipston in Worcester County, MA

3.93 Rating based on 113 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout, Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 99
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 228
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13.47lbs and 39" near Phillipston

13.47lbs and 39"

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check out those teeth!! near Phillipston

check out those teeth!!

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next to my size 12 foot near Phillipston

next to my size 12 foot

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little 4" swimbait on 4/0 hook near Phillipston

little 4" swimbait on 4/0 hook

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Top Fishing Spots near Phillipston

Bates Power Reservoir
Bates Power Reservoir

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

Queen Lake
Queen Lake

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1380

Millers River
Millers River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 5996

East Branch of Tully River
East Branch of Tully River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2075

Lake Rohunta
Lake Rohunta

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

Lake Denison
Lake Denison

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 6357

Phillipston Area Fish Species

Recent Phillipston Fishing Reports

Froggin with fishngolf Fishing Report Jun 07, 2013

Froggin with fishngolf

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Get a call from fishngolf asking if I could make it out to his honey hole and of course I said hell yeah.Made the half hour drive to his little slice ...

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2 Kayak rides. Awesome Tuesday morning before work. Fishing Report Jul 29, 2014

2 Kayak rides. Awesome Tuesday morning before work.

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I had a 3-day weekend, and the fishing was lousy. I knew it would pick up this morning, and I work from home on Tuesdays. So I got up at 4:30, fished ...

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dont mean to sound arraogant but.... Fishing Report Jul 12, 2013

dont mean to sound arraogant but....

secret -

i think im getting pretty goddamn good at this pike fishin thing! ok so upon request I will try n keep it short and use proper story structure and im ...

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Miller's River Fishing Report Apr 22, 2012

Miller's River

Miller's River, Athol, Ma -

Fished the Miller's River, started at the canoe launch Main Street Athol, and worked my way north on the river.Caught an average size pickerel usi...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Miller's River  Fishing Report Apr 15, 2012

Miller's River

Miller's River, Athol, Ma -

Wife caught a midsize trout and a 1lb bass..lucky, once again with the chartreuse #2 Vibrax. I gave up with the heavy gear and used her gear and caugh...

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Second look Fishing Report Apr 09, 2011

Second look

White pond -

going back, hope to have better luck , the place looks promising....

Avg. Rating: 4
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Baits and Tackle used near Phillipston

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Live Carwfish
  • dilly worms
  • Shinners
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Moussies and wax worms

    pond shiners once cought for tip ups
  • moussies and wax worms

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • Medium shiner
  • 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.
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • 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.
  • Kivas
    Shinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • 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
  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Worm Check Prices

  • senkos
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • senko
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • senko wacky rigged
  • Senko
    1st was 11-3/4in
    2nd was 6in on the inline spinner

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.
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail

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.

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Crankbait Check Prices

  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • shallow running crank baits
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • brown

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.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 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
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold

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

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

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