Fishing near Boylston in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Mirror Carp, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
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Top Fishing Spots near Boylston

Wachusett Reservoir
Wachusett Reservoir

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Blackstone River
Blackstone River

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# Reviews: 7
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East Waushaccum Pond
East Waushaccum Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2757

South Meadow Pond
South Meadow Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4237

Coachlace Pond
Coachlace Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4499

Mossy Pond
Mossy Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Boylston Area Fish Species

Recent Boylston Fishing Reports

Wachusett Ress Sunday Morning 5/8/11 Fishing Report May 08, 2011

Wachusett Ress Sunday Morning 5/8/11

Wachusett Res -

Had a slow start but started getting some action around 9:00 or so. First hit was lost due to the big damn white plastic I was using.(Starting to thin...

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Early morning fun at the Chu Fishing Report Oct 08, 2012

Early morning fun at the Chu

Wachusett Res -

Hit up the Chu with badlarry early Saturday morning. Hoping for something and not disappointed, ended up hitting 2 nice smallies, both caught on shine...

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No smallies........ Fishing Report Sep 10, 2016

No smallies........

wachusett reservoir -

We headed to Wachusett Reservoir to attempt to catch some smallies . We got to gate 14 around 12:45 and started fishing a tube but I got no hits so ...

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New PB Smallie- Drop Shottin at the Chu Fishing Report Aug 18, 2014

New PB Smallie- Drop Shottin at the Chu

Wachusett Reservoir -

Haven't been to the Res since I bumped into Badlarry and his giant Laker. Cool nights and reports of smallies gave me the itch to get back there. ...

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My last day at the chu 2014 Fishing Report Nov 29, 2014

My last day at the chu 2014

Wachusett reservoir -

Very cold upon arrival like a toasty 18 degrees. Started at gate 6 just walking around casting lures. No action. Went to gate 19 took a nice walk arou...

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Sunday @ the Res Fishing Report Nov 12, 2012

Sunday @ the Res

Wachusett Res -

Headed out to Wachusett early Sunday morning. Lots of action at first light. Enough to go through about a dozen shiners in a little over an hour. Bite...

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Baits and Tackle used near Boylston

Check Prices

  • weighted tube
    Texas rigged craw
    spook
    wacky
  • 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
  • BHB Jigs
    Senko
    Kivas
    Yellow candy
    Shinners
  • Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?
  • 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
  • Big ass shiners
  • Goliath size perch
  • Shinners

    Big Ones
  • Corn lots of it
  • 1.5 KVD Crankbait, Yamamoto 4.5 inch Pumpkin Grub, Spinnerbait, Swim Baits, Rubber Worms.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Big Kiva
  • White suckers
  • Yellow Perch
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Shinners
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Big Shinner
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Large and XL Shiners

Tube Check Prices

  • 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
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • june bug tube
  • minitube flourescent
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • Medium shiner
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
  • I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • live bait old school

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.

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
  • 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
  • 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
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • 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

  • Yellow green spinnerbaits
  • Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
  • Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
  • Spinner green bleeder
  • Green Bleeder
  • Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
  • white and red tandem colorado
    long tail
  • white skirt
  • red
  • rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • 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.
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
  • Ribbit frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.

Streamer Check Prices

  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • X-Rap
  • 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.
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • Jerk Bait
  • Jerk Bait
    1st Calico was 8in
    2nd was 10in
    3rd was 9in
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Silver / Black Roostertail
  • All 4 and 5 inch Bass
  • 5in and 9in Bass
  • 1/8 Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 15.5in
    2. 13in 1lb
  • 1/8in Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
  • Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
  • Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
    spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
  • I worked the western shoreline for awhile, throwing around my usual rig. After feeling a few hit and runs, I eventually hooked up on a bass...that couldn't have weighed more than half a pound.
  • Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin

    Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.
  • Shakey Head
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
  • Senko
  • 7 " red shad powerbait
  • senko into cover

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • xps swimbait
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.

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
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • Jerkbait
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
    A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
  • They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
  • 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
    lots of 1lbers
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • Drop Shot
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
  • Shaky Head
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 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
  • 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
    1 on Rooster Tail
  • Rooster tail
  • rapala red ratalin rap
  • Rapala Original Perch #7
  • 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
    8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7
  • Rosster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

  • 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
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz
  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
  • Baitball. Live target
  • Bait ball. From live target
  • Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
  • rapala
  • perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
  • rapal

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • brown
  • black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
  • pumpkin
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • Crawfish style.
  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
  • 4"senko
  • Frog = 1 lil bump
    White Shad = 2 LMB
  • 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.
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger

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!
  • silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just a small piece
  • Nightcrawlers and troutworms
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • nice large nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • rattler
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Dropshotting
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

  • Corn and lots of it
  • Green Power Bait
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn
  • Cheapest bait on the planet
  • Corn
    Lots of it
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
  • White Bread
  • usually rubber worms

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