Fishing near Abington 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: 206
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sun set cleveland pond near Abington

sun set cleveland pond

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Largemouth at Cleveland Pond near Abington

Largemouth at Cleveland Pond

on the ice near a small island
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nowell state park near Abington

nowell state park

wasi in back cove across the pond where the are two huge rocks to fish from
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nowell state park near Abington

nowell state park

back cove in park by 2 boulders to fish from
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Top Fishing Spots near Abington

Cleavland Pond
Cleavland Pond

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Cushing Pond
Cushing Pond

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# Reviews: 1
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Island Grove Pond
Island Grove Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 4
Views: 6143

Weymouth Great Pond
Weymouth Great Pond

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9752

Reeds Pond
Reeds Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3403

Hobart Pond
Hobart Pond

Avg. Rating: 2.75
# Reviews: 4
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Abington Area Fish Species

Recent Abington Fishing Reports

Fall Bass on Cleveland Pond Fishing Report Sep 30, 2008

Fall Bass on Cleveland Pond

Cleveland Pond Abington, MA -

Good Bass cought on rubber worms and top water. Took a 5lb bass on white mouse and 5 2 to 4 lb bass on grape worms....

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Tough day part 1 Fishing Report Apr 29, 2012

Tough day part 1

Cleveland Pond -

Bad day, Got my canoe the night before and had it and the car loaded and ready to go the night before. Mistake one lol. This lead to me sleeping in a...

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Light Ice Fishing at Cleveland Pond Fishing Report Apr 20, 2015

Light Ice Fishing at Cleveland Pond

Cleveland Pond, Abington -

Early this year I went ice fishing on Cleveland Pond in Abington with a couple family members and friends. We weren't catching them all over the ...

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4/12/09 failed attempt Fishing Report Apr 12, 2009

4/12/09 failed attempt

cleveland pond -

took the boat out on clveland pond at about 2:30 with bob only got about 60 feet out before getting stopped by fierce wind it must have been 40 mph o...

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4/12/09 Fishing Report Apr 12, 2009

4/12/09

Ames Nowell state park Abington -

WINDY too windy little boat only made it about 60 ft before we turned around ...

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Cleveland Pond Fishing Report Jul 04, 2013

Cleveland Pond

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I went back to Cleveland Pond in Abington this morning. The weeds had gotten much worse since I was there a few weeks ago. Still fishable, but no op...

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Baits and Tackle used near Abington

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • SEAWORMS
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • 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.
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • use small tube
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • 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.
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • 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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • White Mouse
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • Used a silver/black top water popper, cast under overhanging brush and near the weeds, every few cranks I'd give a slight jerk and it drove them nuts

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • berkley slug
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • red 5" Senko
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • Sluggo

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
  • 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
  • 1/4 black thumper
  • using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Spro Frog
  • Stanley Ribbit

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 was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • 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 Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • 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
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • Olive Shad X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

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

  • Grape worm texes rig
  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko
  • baby bass senko
  • Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue
  • Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
  • white senko
  • baby bass Senko rigged weightless
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
  • Berkeley powerbait worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 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 Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • xps swimbait
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season

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
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 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
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz

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

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • j9 black/gold
  • Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
  • slow slow slow presentation

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom

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
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • Lake fork magic shad

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • 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.
  • trout worms
  • 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
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers 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
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • 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.
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner

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 White Grub.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Power bait
  • Chunked mackerel

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