Fishing near Whitman in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Bluegill, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 210
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Larrys! near Whitman

Larrys!

Ive been told this place had some big bass in it and i was very happy with my first time here.
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Largemouth Bass near Whitman

Largemouth Bass

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Lillte Largemouth near Whitman

Lillte Largemouth

dead drifted my squarebill crankbait to keep it out of the weeds near the bank and the little guy poked at it a couple of times then blasted the front treble.
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Top Fishing Spots near Whitman

Hobart Pond
Hobart Pond

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Island Grove Pond
Island Grove Pond

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# Reviews: 4
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Forge Pond
Forge Pond

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# Reviews: 2
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Reeds Pond
Reeds Pond

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# Reviews: 1
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Mattfield River
Mattfield River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Cleavland Pond
Cleavland Pond

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# Reviews: 7
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Whitman Area Fish Species

Recent Whitman Fishing Reports

Night with my dad Fishing Report Jul 25, 2012

Night with my dad

Hobarts Pond, Whitman MA. -

I talked my dad into coming out fishing last night. We were gonna head to Jacobs pond in Norwell. With the storms coming through we ended up at Hobart...

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First catch of 2015 Fishing Report Apr 09, 2015

First catch of 2015

Hobart Pond, Whitman, MA -

Fished Hobarts Pond in Whitman at lunch. It was raw and drizzly, but they were a-biting! Caught two small 1lbers and one that was about 2.5lbs. My ...

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Hobarts Pond 4/4 & 4/6 Fishing Report Apr 07, 2014

Hobarts Pond 4/4 & 4/6

Hobart Pond, Whitman, MA -

Caught a 1 LB Pickerel on the big pond and a 1 LB Largemouth on the small on the same small hard jerk bait. Nice start to the season....

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Hobart Pond Fishing Report Nov 14, 2011

Hobart Pond

Hobart Pond -

Quick 30min fish at Hobart pont. Caught a good little 2.5lb Bass...

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South Shore Ice fishing Fishing Report Jan 29, 2013

South Shore Ice fishing

South Shore -

Got out for the second time this year. First day was Friday and we had consistent flags all day long. Some of the biggest perch I have seen and a ba...

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Frog heaven Fishing Report Jun 30, 2014

Frog heaven

Mike and I decided to go to a certain pond today for the first time but when we got there, they had just done weed kill and boating/fishing was prohib...

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Baits and Tackle used near Whitman

Check Prices

  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • just casst
  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Live eels
  • live mackerel
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.

Creature Check Prices

  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

  • medium-sized shiner
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • shiners
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • 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.
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
  • small minnows, pretty active

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • White Mouse
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • berkley slug
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • buzzbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • 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).
  • Spro Frog

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • 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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko
  • Grape worm texes rig
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament 6 in worms.
  • Watermelon Green Bass Pro Jerk Bait 6 in worms
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • LONG PURPLE WORM,, WILL SEE IN MY PHOTO
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless

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.
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Crank and buzzbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 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
  • Shakey Head
  • 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
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 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
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • 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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Rapala Original #7

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • blue silver reble
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • blue reble
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

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

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • shallow diver with sunfish pattern
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • slow retrieve
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • Hard Plastic Frog

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

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
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Northland minnow
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 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.
  • regular silver spoon
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • 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
  • trout worms
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • rattler
  • 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.
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...

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