Fishing near Ashburnham in Worcester County, MA

3.67 Rating based on 132 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, Lake Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 152
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 275
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Top Fishing Spots near Ashburnham

Winnekeag Lake
Winnekeag Lake

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South Branch Souhegan River
South Branch Souhegan River

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Lake Watatic
Lake Watatic

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Lower Wright's Pond
Lower Wright's Pond

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Upper Wright's Pond
Upper Wright's Pond

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Souhegan River
Souhegan River

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# Reviews: 2
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Ashburnham Area Fish Species

Recent Ashburnham Fishing Reports

Ashburnham 6-26 to 6-29-14 Fishing Report Jul 30, 2014

Ashburnham 6-26 to 6-29-14

Ashburnham, MA -

Here's one of a few trips I'll be posting that will hopefully give some useful information and tips. I have the distinct pleasure of being ab...

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Fishing with the Kids Fishing Report Jun 11, 2015

Fishing with the Kids

Lake Watatic, Ashburnham, MA -

I took the kids out last weekend for a little romp around Lake Watatic. We all caught something, so they were happy, though they would have liked a b...

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5-30-2015: Lake Wampanoag Fishing Report May 30, 2015

5-30-2015: Lake Wampanoag

Lake Wampanoag -

Hit the lake at 0500. Water was calm. Paddled along the shore in front of Camp Collier. Caught fist bass, little over 1 lb on a white Booyah Pad Crash...

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Watatic Weekend Fishing Report Jul 06, 2015

Watatic Weekend

Lake Watatic, Ashburnham, MA -

A weekend away means dad will play! Many short (1-2 hour) trips over the weekend out at Watatic in Ashburnham. Shoving off from our camp, I was maki...

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6-6-2015: Lake Wampanoag Fishing Report Jun 08, 2015

6-6-2015: Lake Wampanoag

Lake Wampanoag, Gardner, MA -

Was supposed to take a buddy of mine kayak fishing for the first time, but he sent me a text the night before and bailed on me. no worries, I have no ...

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My biggest fish !!!! Fishing Report Mar 24, 2009

My biggest fish !!!!

Whitam Reservoir -

I was fishing one spring morning at Whitman Reservoir in Westminster, MA. I had to go to work at 3 PM so I started getting ready to leave. A few more ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Ashburnham

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  • senko
  • smoke red flake senkos
  • wacky worms and spinnerbaits
  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • texes rigged senko
  • Green with gold belly swim bait.
  • 6" Senkos
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • frogs and senkos
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • Shinners
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Big Shinner
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Yellow Perch
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert

Tube Check Prices

  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • june bug tubes
  • June Bug tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube

Creature Check Prices

  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Minnow Check Prices

  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • Medium shiner
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • Large shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • red

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart
  • Ribbit frog
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • X-Rap
  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • senko
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • Red Senko took it on the fall on the fall
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • 6 inch light green senko
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • senkos

Crankbait Check Prices

  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • shallow running crank baits
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
  • rapala wounded minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • brown
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • pumpkin

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.

Wet Fly Check Prices

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Other Check Prices

  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
    One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
    All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat

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