Fishing near Ware in Hampshire County, MA

3.79 Rating based on 180 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, American Shad, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 113
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 214
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Native trout near Ware

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Swift River  near Ware

Swift River

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Top Fishing Spots near Ware

Hardwick Pond
Hardwick Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Ware River
Ware River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 4175

Forest Lake (palmer)
Forest Lake (palmer)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 4
Views: 6938

Quaboag River
Quaboag River

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
Views: 5122

Wickaboag Pond
Wickaboag Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 3256

Metacomet Lake
Metacomet Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2431

Ware Area Fish Species

Recent Ware Fishing Reports

Swift River Fishing Report Aug 09, 2012

Swift River

Three River, MA -

My wife, myself, brother in law and his wife went boating down the swift river, but only he got the only bite of the day. Did see some nice looking t...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Swift River Spincasting (Trout Involved) Fishing Report Sep 22, 2011

Swift River Spincasting (Trout Involved)

Swift River -

So I was reading reviews on how "hard" The swift river trout are to catch, So I decided to take a trip down to Hubbardstown which is about 4...

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Fishing with Bob Fishing Report Jun 30, 2013

Fishing with Bob

Swift River ,Belchertown/Ware ,MA -

Boat fishing on the Swift River ,Belchertown ,Mass...

Avg. Rating: 5
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The River Swift Fishing Report Sep 30, 2013

The River Swift

Swift River -

My friend Cynthia and I decided to play hooky on a beautiful Friday afternoon to go fly fishing at the Swift River. The Swift flows out of the Quabbin...

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Upper Swift Fishing Report May 12, 2013

Upper Swift

Swift River ,Belchertown/Ware ,MA -

Boat fishing on the Swift river above the launch...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Graduation Day trip .. Fishing Report Jun 02, 2013

Graduation Day trip ..

Ware Mass, Swift River -

Fishing some favorite holes on the Swift River.
Didn't HAVE time to take the boat. Took a couple rods and went to hit the sweet spots.
Fir...

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Baits and Tackle used near Ware

Check Prices

  • Flies and Jigs
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • senco
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • minnows, jig
  • 6" Senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • Big shiners
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Chung's Best
  • Perfect size Kivas
  • Shiinners
  • Hand size Kivas
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas

Creature Check Prices

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

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
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • Chung's Best
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies
  • live bait old school

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Fast retrieve

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • green pumpkin senko
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko
  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

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..

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • Booyah tiger
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
  • yellow dancin eel

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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

  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold

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
  • just a small piece

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

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
  • Big
    Dead
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Chicken Liver

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