Fishing near Cambridge in Middlesex County, MA

3.46 Rating based on 416 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 213
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1946
  •  
  • Discuss Cambridge area fishing in our Massachusetts Fishing Forum

Cambridge Fishing Photos

smallie near Cambridge

smallie

Added by: ftmbasshunter
View Full Size
another shot of the smb near Cambridge

another shot of the smb

Added by: ftmbasshunter
View Full Size
smallmouth near Cambridge

smallmouth

5" Yum Dinger, black w/ blue fleck, weightless t-rig
Added by: ftmbasshunter
View Full Size
Largemouth near Cambridge

Largemouth

Added by: ftmbasshunter
View Full Size
largemouth bass - first cast! near Cambridge

largemouth bass - first cast!

This fish hit a Booyah Pad Crasher frog. Didn't have my scale ready yet and wanted to release the fish quickly, so no official weight - estimated 3-3.5 pounder.
Added by: classy_bass
View Full Size
largemouth bass - first cast! near Cambridge

largemouth bass - first cast!

This fish hit a Booyah Pad Crasher frog. Didn't have my scale ready yet and wanted to release the fish quickly, so no official weight - estimated 3-3.5 pounder.
Added by: classy_bass
View Full Size

Top Fishing Spots near Cambridge

Claypit Pond
Claypit Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 4145

Brighton Boat Ramp
Brighton Boat Ramp

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2061

Spy Pond
Spy Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.75
# Reviews: 4
Views: 24307

Muddy River
Muddy River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1995

Mystic River
Mystic River

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 14258

Alford St. Bridge
Alford St. Bridge

Avg. Rating: 3.6
# Reviews: 5
Views: 4561

Cambridge Area Fish Species

Recent Cambridge Fishing Reports

Heat Wave Bassin' Fishing Report Jul 17, 2013

Heat Wave Bassin'

Charles River, Watertown -

Hit a new spot just beyond Eliot Bridge (behind Mt. Auburn Hospital) and caught a couple bass. All hail the power of the plastic worm!...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: ftmbasshunter
Map It
Catfish and Carp on the Charles Fishing Report Sep 07, 2014

Catfish and Carp on the Charles

Charles River -

Hit up the Charles River this morning for some catfish and carp. Landed a few small white cats on cut shiners (mostly 1-2 pounders, but I did lose one...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3 Views:
Review Report
Created by: teamtrout
Map It
Booyah! Frog Fishing  Fishing Report Jul 10, 2016

Booyah! Frog Fishing

Charles River -

Went bank fishing on the Charles River 7:30pm last Thursday and the topwater bite was on, even with the ubiquitous boat traffic and rowers in the area...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3 Views:
Review Report
Created by: classy_bass
Map It
7/30/08 - Charles River - Watertown, MA Fishing Report Jul 30, 2008

7/30/08 - Charles River - Watertown, MA

Charles River - Watertown, MA -

...Part 2 of my trip. Tried this area of the river for the first time. Huge dock, plenty of casting area from shore. By the looks of it Id bet this pl...

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 5 Views:
Review Report
Created by: meat7gtk
Map It
Charles River Smallmouths Fishing Report Aug 13, 2013

Charles River Smallmouths

Charles River, Allston/Brighton -

Found a small floating dock near the Allston gardens, caught a couple smallmouths and a couple crappies....

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 6 Views:
Review Report
Created by: walleyefanatic
Map It
After Work Yak' Trip Fishing Report Jul 18, 2014

After Work Yak' Trip

charles river, Boston MA -

So after three days of thunderstorms, I was very anxious to get back out on the water. Took the hobie mirage out for a couple of hours and got a few l...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 5 Views:
Review Report
Created by: dirtywaterbass
Map It

Baits and Tackle used near Cambridge

Check Prices

  • Senko, 4" watermelon, red flake
  • green whith sparkle(senko)
  • Senko (purple/blue flake)
    Zoom Super Fluke (bass color w/ incidental pumpkinseed color)
  • Spinnerbait (fleck)
    swimbaits (storm) Shad
    Spanky pumpkin
  • storm shad
  • jitterbug; 3" floating repala.
  • SkippyFish, Senko
  • Senkos
  • 5" Senko
  • Live shiners about a foot off the bottom entice lots of strikes

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • 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.
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • SEAWORMS
  • Live eels
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • live mackerel
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • worm

Tube Check Prices

  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • use small tube
  • tube dark...
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • minitube flourescent
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.

Minnow Check Prices

  • Dead minnows
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
  • 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.
  • Zara Spook.
  • Hula Popper
  • BPS Popper, Texas special color.
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • Jitterbug
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms

Lizard Check Prices

  • 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
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • Red/Red
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Baby bass lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • Senko.
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • Senko

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Joes fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).
  • Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye 3/8 oz. White and Chartreuse
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • White, double silver blade
  • White spinner bait
  • tandem willow, firetiger
  • BLACK TANDEM WILLOW
  • war eagle spinnerbait, in the
    "screming eagle" size which is a 1/2 oz in a 1/4 size. Awesome!

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • 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 pulled slowly across the service.
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm
  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • Jerkbait
  • Rapala Original Silver
  • rapala
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
    2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
    3rd was 8in
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 2 7" Yellow Perch
  • 1st was 8in
    2nd was 13-3/4" 1lb
  • Both in the 10" Range
  • 8", 9", and 12" 10oz Smallies
  • 1st was 5in
    2nd was 13-1/4in 14oz
  • Three in the 8"-10" Range and one was 12-1/2" 14oz
  • one 1lb 5oz, and two 3/4lbers
  • 11", 9",8" all on the Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts

Worm Check Prices

  • 5" Yum Dinger, black w/ blue fleck, weightless t-rig
  • Berkley power worm, texas rig, in junebug
  • 5 inch Pumpkin Senkos, texas rigged
  • Gary Yamamoto Senko in Pumpkinseed, rigged Texas.
  • Gary Yamamoto Yamasenko. 5" black with red fleck
  • Caught the big guy on a Berkley powerbait 10' powerworm, Rigged texas with a 1/4 oz bullet sinker to penatrate the thick stuff. Also caught one on a spook,walkin the dog
  • Larry I caught on a senko at a honey hole the next day, plenty of bait in the water. Broke off a 1-1/2lber on jig cause knot let go, dohhh!
  • Senko
  • Drop shot
  • 4" YUM watermelon / white

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • xps swimbait
  • Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • 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
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

  • Drop Shot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
    My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz

    what didn't make the cut:
    two 1lb 6oz
    half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
    one 14oz
    one short
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • Dropshot
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Jigs & Worms
    Our Limit:
    Chuck had a 3lber
    I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber

    The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster tail
  • Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
    One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
    One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
    Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.

Craw Check Prices

  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • Rat-l-trap
  • 2 inch minnow shallow diver yellow perch pattern
  • Lipless crankbait rat-l-trap.
  • Deep diver Purple slow retreive
  • Strike King Pro Series 4S - Sexy Shad
  • Strike King 1XS

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • Jig and pig in the bushes and trees
  • Pitched a war eagle flippin jig to a sweet wall that always holds bass
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig, Bluegill pattern, with green pumpkin grub trailer.
  • Green Football Jig with Green and Chartreuse Skirt
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger
  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Olive wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • we used live worms it worked very well

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • rattler
  • 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.
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
  • Clams
  • Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Dropshot
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • SENKO GREEN
  • KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
  • None.
  • Natural Berkley Honey worm
  • Powerbait
  • Power Bait
  • Chartreuse power bait. Slip rig with a one once egg sinker and about two feet of leader.
  • Rainbow powerbait
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface

Stay Updated

Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay updated on Cambridge fishing and other Massachusetts fishing. You'll also receive community updates, invites to try new features and promotions from our partners.

MA Fish Finder

Social Links