Fishing near Russell in Hampden County, MA

3.48 Rating based on 140 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Brown Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 100
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 125
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Russell Fishing Photos

Largemouth near Russell

Largemouth

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Russell fishing photo 2

threw my waders on went out and caught first bass out of open first day of spring
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Top Fishing Spots near Russell

Woronoco Dam
Woronoco Dam

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Russell Pond
Russell Pond

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Cobble Mountain Reservoir
Cobble Mountain Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 6858

Manhan River
Manhan River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3094

Middle Branch Westfield River
Middle Branch Westfield River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 914

Littleville Lake
Littleville Lake

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 8083

Russell Area Fish Species

Recent Russell Fishing Reports

day at the brickyards Fishing Report Mar 27, 2012

day at the brickyards

Brickyards, westfield, MA -

decided to go hit up the brick yards and throw some crank baits i showed up there and first thing i got a hit on my yellow dancin eel but no bites af...

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Need to fish Fishing Report Jun 30, 2009

Need to fish

Big Pond -

Needed a day to Fish and went on a Sunday...

Avg. Rating: 2
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Berkshires fishing trip Fishing Report Jun 23, 2012

Berkshires fishing trip

white lilly pond, Ma -

It was getting dark at our berkshire house and of course i wanted to go out on the boat just before sundown and catch a few more bass. I didn't wa...

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Berkshires fishing trip Fishing Report Jun 23, 2012

Berkshires fishing trip

white lilly pond, Ma -

It was getting dark at our berkshire house and of course i wanted to go out on the boat just before sundown and catch a few more bass. I didn't wa...

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New boat first fish Fishing Report Apr 18, 2015

New boat first fish

Congamond Lakes -

got the day off on Tuesday and was itching to get the new boat out. Launched at Congamond around 930 after the rain had passed. began just to putt put...

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Congamond Connoisseur Fishing Report Jun 08, 2009

Congamond Connoisseur

Congamond Lake, MA -

I dipped a few "feet" into Mass. for fishing on Congamond. A lot of big bass there....

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Baits and Tackle used near Russell

Check Prices

  • rubber grub
  • Bluegill
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • mixed color senkos
  • shinners
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • 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!!

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers

Minnow Check Prices

  • Tip ups baited with shiners
  • Drifting with a live minnow
  • Drifting with live minnows

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White Rooster Tail
  • White rooster tail
  • Phoebe and Rooster Tail
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • meppes
  • white tailed
  • Gold blade, Yellow n red Tail
  • Silver, black/red tail
  • silver blade, red/black tail
  • Silver blades, Red/white tail
  • rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT
  • Copper John

Worm Check Prices

  • Yam's off all sorts and colors... thats it.
    Also caught smallmouth and a couple of chain pickeral.
  • senko
  • Senkos and Tiger/perch cranks
  • 4 inch Green Pumpkin Yamamoto Senco
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senco stretch 40
  • jig heads / swim tails
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • litle plastic minnows
  • Gulp Alive
  • black buzz bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • One caught on a crawler , one caught on a live minnow

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 4" lipless craink bait pumpkinseed colored.
  • 4" lipless crank bait, pumpkinseed coloring.
  • red craw by bill lewis
  • clacking rap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • 2 inch, color gold and white

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish
  • purple rooster tail & live minnows

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Chicken Liver
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Rainbow Powerbait

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