Fishing near Auburn in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 163
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 841
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Top Fishing Spots near Auburn

Dark Brook Reservoir
Dark Brook Reservoir

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Eddy Pond
Eddy Pond

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Curtis Pond
Curtis Pond

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Texas Pond
Texas Pond

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Coes Reservoir
Coes Reservoir

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Ramshorn Lake
Ramshorn Lake

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Auburn Area Fish Species

Recent Auburn Fishing Reports

The Rock round 2 Fishing Report Jul 28, 2012

The Rock round 2

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Back to the rock we go Bad larry takes the early lead with some quick jabs Muskie comes storming out of the corner with a flurry of fish to grab the p...

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Dark Brook Fishing Report Aug 03, 2015

Dark Brook

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8/1/15 first time to this body of water, bite was slow, did catch 2 bass...

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Muskie Adventure Tours Fishing Report Jun 29, 2012

Muskie Adventure Tours

Our adventure began at Herbies in Worc. 5:40pm the A Team Van pulls up and off to the Bait Shop we go. We took BadLarry to our Fav. Bait shop (Left ...

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Dark Brook, Auburn Fishing Report Jul 11, 2011

Dark Brook, Auburn

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Nice clear day for fishing. spotted a few anglers, but not as many as i would have thought. slow action. 4 small bass, (2 just larger than bait size) ...

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Muskie Adventure Tours Lion's Club Derby Fishing Report Jan 28, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours Lion's Club Derby

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2 words come to mind instantly: 1. Unbelievable and 2. Congrats!!
The Unbelievable part is as folows: 10 dozen shinners 135+ flags and 100+ fish ...

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Dark Brook Res Fishing Report Mar 30, 2011

Dark Brook Res

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First time fishing after work! Launched around 5pm and I was off by 7pm, so it was a short trip. I hit a couple of the points that usually produce t...

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Baits and Tackle used near Auburn

Check Prices

  • Dead Bait
  • Senko
    Kivas
    Rubber Frog
  • 4 " Senkos black blue flake drop shot and Road Kill Bass Pro style Senko. We tried many different colors and baits but most of our fish came on these two colors.
  • We used feed corn and Dat food boilies in the flavor strawberry
  • worms mid shiners and power bait
  • big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
  • Shiners (big)
  • My favorite Carp Bait

    Power Bait for Rainbows
  • Corn mmmmmmm
  • Corn lots of it

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Perfect size Kivas
  • Shiinners
  • Chung's Best
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • Hand size Kivas
  • Big shiners
  • Big Kiva
  • White suckers
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Yellow Perch

Creature Check Prices

  • Carolina Rig
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

Tube Check Prices

  • drop shots and topwater
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • june bug tubes
  • June Bug tube
  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • june bug tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • live bait old school
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies
  • Chung's Best
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
  • Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
  • Jitterbug
  • Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
  • Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • Jitter Bug
  • Skitter Pop
    Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
  • Rebel Popper - Perch
  • Black jitter bug.

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • 8" Pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
  • 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go
  • Sluggo
  • I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee 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.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Fast retrieve
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
  • Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber
  • Yellow green spinnerbaits
  • Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades
  • Brown/Gold w/ Red
  • brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
  • X-Rap
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner
  • 6" and 8" on inline spinner
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1/8 Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 15.5in
    2. 13in 1lb
  • 1/8in Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1st. 8in 6oz
    2nd. 5in

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 5" senko
  • short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
  • 5" rattlesnake, red
  • Gary Yamamoto™®
    5inch Watermelon/Lemon
    The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
  • junebug w/blue fleck
  • Senko
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
  • 7 " red shad powerbait
  • Zoom Trick worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • Shakeyhead - 1-1/2lber, and 1-1/4ber

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • xps swimbait
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1-1/4lber was my best
    bunch of 1lbers and shorts
  • All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
  • Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
    The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
  • They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
  • Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
    A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
  • Drop shot
  • Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Rooster tail
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • Rooster Tail
  • DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
  • 1 on Rooster Tail
    1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
  • 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
    4 on Rooster Tail

Craw Check Prices

  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • crawdads and soft frogs

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • First cast and I had one.

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz
  • jig n pig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
  • 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
  • perch rapala
  • perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
  • rapal
  • rapala
  • KVD Rattling Square Bill
  • Squarebill, and dropshot
  • crankbaits and spinners
  • Rapala Jointed crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • 1-1/2lber on Jig
    11" on Dropshot
  • All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
  • 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
  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
  • brown
  • black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
  • !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • 4"senko
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
  • Frog = 1 lil bump
    White Shad = 2 LMB
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • silver spoon
  • 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!

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just a small piece
  • Nightcrawlers and troutworms
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Greyish, green, red face

Grub Check Prices

  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • Inline Spinner, Dropshot
    one 6" and 4 other between 10" ans 11" Smallies
  • Big
    Dead
    Golden's
  • White Bread
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
  • Corn
    Lots of it
  • Cheapest bait on the planet
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Green Power Bait

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