Fishing near Raynham in Bristol County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Chain Pickerel, Other (Saltwater)
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Top Fishing Spots near Raynham

Forge River
Forge River

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Prospect Hill Pond
Prospect Hill Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Lake Nippenicket
Lake Nippenicket

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 7
Views: 16680

Lake Sabbatia
Lake Sabbatia

Avg. Rating: 3.286
# Reviews: 7
Views: 11775

Cotley River
Cotley River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2994

Old Brickyard
Old Brickyard

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Raynham Area Fish Species

Recent Raynham Fishing Reports

Party fishing Fishing Report Aug 08, 2011

Party fishing

Johnson Pond, MA -

At a party and decided to go fishing!...

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Johnson's Pond Raynham MA Fishing Report Jul 05, 2012

Johnson's Pond Raynham MA

Johnson's Pond, Raynham MA -

Johnson's Pond is a 13 Acre manmade pond located at the intersection of North Main Street and Johnson Street near town hall. There is plenty of pa...

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Papa & Grandson Fishing Adventures Fishing Report Jul 22, 2013

Papa & Grandson Fishing Adventures

Massasoit State Park (ponds & Lakes) & Old pond/New pond Area (Easton) -

Sharing some compiled fishing trips between my father and my son. Both have grown to enjoy the sport/recreation in these past few years. My son got my...

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Team Beaver Fever First Outing and Shakedown Fishing Report Mar 14, 2011

Team Beaver Fever First Outing and Shakedown

Nippennicket -

Team Beaver Fever had their first outing this past Sunday at Nippenicket. Got to the ramp around 7:30 to do a quick shakedown and gear check. Ended up...

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Back to the Nip again Fishing Report Jul 21, 2011

Back to the Nip again

Lake Nippenicket -

I just typed an epic document about this trip and the website has some sort of error that would not let me add photos and eventually deleted everythin...

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First trip to the Nip  Fishing Report May 27, 2010

First trip to the Nip

Lake Nippenicket -

Medium size lake , shallow water with limited structure in the main area of the lake. More structure in the back but can also get very shallow. ( watc...

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Baits and Tackle used near Raynham

Check Prices

  • shiners
  • Worm
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • just casst
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • pumpkin seed, perch

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • porgy
  • pogie chunk

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Flipping a laydown
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • mumpers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • same as bass bait
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • White Mouse
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • Red/Red

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
  • Sluggo
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • Shad colored 5" Senko

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
  • neon green spinner bait
  • 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
  • wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
  • caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog
  • 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
  • white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops lazer Eye spinnerbait, nickel dual willow blades
  • white spinner white grub trailer

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • chartreuse SnagProof 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
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.

    Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
  • seinko 5" junebug purple

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Panther Martin
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • mepps agalia
  • Panther Martin spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • senko - black with blue flake
  • senko early season , rats when the pads start to fill in.
  • 10 inch
  • 0range floating
  • Two 1-3/4lbers, Three 1-1/2lbs, and a 1lber

    Worms. Spinnerbait, and one on a rage frog
  • Berkley power bait
  • Berkeley powerbait
  • Watermelon colored SENKO worm, texas rigged with a small weight
  • 5" watermelon red/black flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick, rigged weightless tex-posed, 4" Yamamoto Senko, watermelon red/black/green flake, wacky-rigged
  • Strike King Shim-E-Stick(Senko) in watermelon, black/red flake

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.
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Rapala Original #7
  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • blue silver reble
  • blue reble
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer

Jigs Check Prices

  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Bomber 4A
  • bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
  • shallow diver with sunfish pattern
  • using an excalibur rayburn red crankbait
  • kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • And Lipless Crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Northland minnow

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • trout worms

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 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
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • rattler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Just bread balls
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.

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