Fishing near Shutesbury in Franklin County, MA

3.86 Rating based on 135 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 84
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 137
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Shutesbury Fishing Photos

3.5 lb largemouth near Shutesbury

3.5 lb largemouth

my brother-in law caught this 3-3.5 lb largemouth at wyola in May of 2008
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Smallmouth near Shutesbury

Smallmouth

A must fish in Ma. You can rent boats, put in your own, and shore fish. All rule and regs can be found on Masswildlife website.
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Shutesbury fishing photo 2

Probably around 5lbs
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Jon's nice Bass near Shutesbury

Jon's nice Bass

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Dealiest Catch near Shutesbury

Dealiest Catch

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Top Fishing Spots near Shutesbury

Wyola Reservoir
Wyola Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 0
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Leverett Pond
Leverett Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 5168

West Branch Swift River
West Branch Swift River

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Cranberry Pond
Cranberry Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.75
# Reviews: 4
Views: 5887

Quabbin Reservoir
Quabbin Reservoir

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

Fort River
Fort River

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 1590

Shutesbury Area Fish Species

Recent Shutesbury Fishing Reports

Western Ma Fishing Report May 19, 2008

Western Ma

Quabbin Res -

Smallmouth...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Deadliest Catch!!! Fishing Report Jun 21, 2013

Deadliest Catch!!!

Lake Boone -

My buddy Jon and I got out for a couple hours on Boone for some mid-week angling. We fished about half the time and shot-the-s*** the other half as w...

Avg. Rating: 4
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puffers pond  Fishing Report Jun 18, 2010

puffers pond

puffers pond. Amherst, MA -

went to puffers pond in Amherst ma with a buddy, caught 5 rainbows and a brown trout. largest of the group was probably 15" not sure of weight w...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Crankin' for a limit & Giant!!! Fishing Report Apr 02, 2013

Crankin' for a limit & Giant!!!

Lake Boon, MA -

I started a solo trip of angling around 1:30pm as I left my launch on this raw day. About 5 minutes into the trip and I realized that I needed gloves...

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Quabbin Fishing Report Aug 10, 2009

Quabbin

Quabbin Reservoir -

Fishing was real slow. I bagged one nice largemouth around 5 lbs.
I caught him on a light green 6 inch senko. There were 2 other small bass around ...

Avg. Rating: 4
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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...

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Baits and Tackle used near Shutesbury

Check Prices

  • senco
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • shinners
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • frogs and senkos
  • Flies and Jigs
  • 6" Senkos
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub
    Booyah Pad Crasher Hollow Body Frog
    KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Swimbait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • dilly worms
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • moussies and wax worms
  • Moussies and wax worms

    pond shiners once cought for tip ups

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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • Popper

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms

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
  • 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

  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko

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

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • 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
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

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

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

  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • Powerbait rainbow

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