Fishing near Attleboro in Bristol County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Sunfish
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Baby Large Mouth near Attleboro

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Another friend of mine with a Smallie near Attleboro

Another friend of mine with a Smallie

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A friend of Mine with his 1st Larry of the day near Attleboro

A friend of Mine with his 1st Larry of the day

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2nd Largemouth of the day! near Attleboro

2nd Largemouth of the day!

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First Largemouth of the day! near Attleboro

First Largemouth of the day!

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Last smallie of the day! near Attleboro

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Top Fishing Spots near Attleboro

Ten Mile River
Ten Mile River

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Manchester Pond Resevoir
Manchester Pond Resevoir

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Orr's Pond
Orr's Pond

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Falls Pond
Falls Pond

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Ten Mile River
Ten Mile River

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Sevenmile River
Sevenmile River

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Attleboro Area Fish Species

Recent Attleboro Fishing Reports

Manchester Pond Fishing Report May 21, 2019

Manchester Pond

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Explored Manchester Pond while parking ban is still not in effect (parking available until 06/01). Got to the reservoir around 5:10 and walked in. Att...

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Manchester Pond Resevoir Fishing Report Jun 25, 2012

Manchester Pond Resevoir

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Slow morning, starting around 10:30am fishing live shiners. Starting slamming Smallmouth and Largemouth at around 12:15pm, 9 fish total between 4 peop...

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SMOKE AND KENNY(HALO) 30+ AND FEW NICE ONES Fishing Report May 22, 2013

SMOKE AND KENNY(HALO) 30+ AND FEW NICE ONES

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MET UP WITH KENNY TODAY AND FISH ONE OF MY HOME PONDS!!!WE DID WELL TODAY GOT 30+ BASS AND PROB 15 PICKEREL AT LEAST HA HA.HITTING MOSTLY THE WORM BUT...

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April 17th Fishing Report Apr 17, 2008

April 17th

Falls Pond, N. Attleboro Ma -

Finally got my first trout of the year on a beautiful 60 degree morning...

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Falls Pond Fishing Report Apr 19, 2016

Falls Pond

Falls Pond North Attleboro, MA -

Went fishing at Falls Pond with my friend to see what we could catch. We used nightcrawlers and grubs. Combined, we caught a total of 8 sunfish(only o...

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Some more bass at Falls Pond Fishing Report Apr 25, 2016

Some more bass at Falls Pond

Falls Pond North Attleboro, MA -

I decided to go back to Falls Pond with my Dad and fish with shiners for bass and trout on Sunday. We got down and fished at the dam. about 15 minutes...

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Baits and Tackle used near Attleboro

Check Prices

  • Worm
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • shiners
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
  • we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
  • black worm
  • 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • porgy
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • pogie chunk
  • Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
  • Medium sized Frog
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • live linning pogies
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Shiners on a bobber

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • tube dark...

Creature Check Prices

  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • used baby brush hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
  • live shiners medium size
  • menhaden
  • 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
  • medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • same as bass bait
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • topwater and worms
  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • Red/Red
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Sluggo
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • golden spinner
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • rooster tail spinner
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • neon green spinner bait
  • neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
  • tornado black
  • 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • Tornado spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • 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
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • 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.

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Panther Martin
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • mepps agalia
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 9in
    2. 10.5in

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • red shad senko 6 inch
  • i got 2 on a 4 inch yum and nicholas got 1 on a rapala. i did hook a 4 or 5 pounder on a spoon, only to have him snap my line about 5 feet from the boat. at least he looked that big.

    less than a half hour before i was telling nicholas how i could see my line had stretched and weakened from all the fish we were catching. and sure enough, finally hooked a nice one and....
  • Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.
  • Two 1-3/4lbers, Three 1-1/2lbs, and a 1lber

    Worms. Spinnerbait, and one on a rage frog
  • senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads
  • 0range floating
  • 10 inch
  • green w/ red flake

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • xps swimbait
  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • 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
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
  • Drop Shot
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Rooster Tail
  • bleeding hook rapala floater
  • Black senko worm
  • Rapala F-5 Original

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Dilly diver shad
  • rebel ghost minnow - silver
  • 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
  • i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
  • Rapala DT-4, Perch
  • perch rapala
  • nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
  • tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.
  • Rapala DT-4
  • i had 29 and nicholas had 34. mostly rapalas, but they were hitting everything we put in the water. most were 10 / 11 inches. a few smaller, a couple bigger.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • Storm 2in Perch

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • 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.
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • rattler

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • 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.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn

    Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
  • I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.

    roughly 24 oz quick grits
    juice from one can of corn
    a good bit of molasses
    baby rice cereal to help fluff it out

    Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.
  • These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.

    The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
  • Just bread balls
  • Powerbait
  • porgy snagger
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • Black Spinner Bait


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