Fishing near Canton in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 226
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 2111
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Caught my first Jig fish near Canton

Caught my first Jig fish

All along the coast, working the boat docks
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Canton Res 6-24 near Canton

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2 lb. 9 oz. near Canton

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Top Fishing Spots near Canton

Canton Res
Canton Res

Avg. Rating: 3.8
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Ponkapoag Pond
Ponkapoag Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 10
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Houghtons Pond
Houghtons Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.833
# Reviews: 6
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Neponset River, Canton
Neponset River, Canton

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Bolivar Pond
Bolivar Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Messinger Pond/silk Mill Conservation Area
Messinger Pond/silk Mill Conservation Area

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Canton Area Fish Species

Recent Canton Fishing Reports

Canton Res 9/22/10 gettin jiggy Fishing Report Sep 23, 2010

Canton Res 9/22/10 gettin jiggy

Canton Reservoir -

Took the boat out on Canton Res with my fishing buddy, windy day warm and sunny. After reading several articles about jigs, figured I'd give them ...

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Canton Reservoir 6/24/2012 Fishing Report Jun 24, 2012

Canton Reservoir 6/24/2012

Canton Reservoir -

So I started out at Canton Res around 7 AM. There were already 5 cars there and more arrived as I was unloading. It seems to be a very popular fishing...

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Windy day at Canton Res Fishing Report Sep 11, 2010

Windy day at Canton Res

Canton Reservoir -

Went out yesterday afternoon on the Canton Res with my cousin. Boat hit the water around 2pm, launched from the wall. The first hour or so I pulled in...

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Canton res. sunday  Fishing Report Jun 24, 2012

Canton res. sunday

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Had a late start got out at around 9:30, took the 126 trophy kayak out to canton res. fishing was slow a lot of small fish in the shallows. In some sp...

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Canton Reservoir Pond_Saturday Morning Fishing Report Sep 10, 2012

Canton Reservoir Pond_Saturday Morning

Canton Reservoir -

Went out to Canton Reservoir on saturday morning aiming to catch something to redeem my pitiful fishing trip to maine a few weeks ago. Water seemed t...

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Canton res Fishing Report Sep 20, 2009

Canton res

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The Canton Res is good all around fishing. no ramp!!! car top or carry only. You can use a gas motor. Great large mouth in there. We pull a few 5 lbs ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Canton

Check Prices

  • buzzbait and slug
  • white spinner bait
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
  • earthworm
  • Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
  • Nightcrawler
  • Powerbait
  • Rubber worms, swimbaits
  • weedless yamamaoto bright green crayfish with a squid-like skirt on the front.
  • senkos blk/blu flake

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • 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.
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • worm
  • slug
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • 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'.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • shiners
  • medium-sized shiner
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • 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
  • Dead minnows
  • shiner
  • 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.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • White Mouse
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug
  • Purple Flash Popper
  • topwater and worms
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • Jitterbug
  • pencil popper
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass berkley slug
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • berkley slug
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • Fishing shore line
  • Fishing tree lines
  • my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
    the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 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
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • small ultra lite baits

    many species of fish caught over the years; trout, salmon, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, calico bass, pickerel, blue gills.
    The 100 is estimated
  • rapala
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • Rooster Tail
  • Gold spinner
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • rooster tail
  • 8", 9", and 12" 10oz Smallies
  • 1st was 8in
    2nd was 13-3/4" 1lb

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • senko baby bass 5"
  • Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Yamosenko rigged Texas.
  • purple senko
  • 5" baby bass senko & popper
  • caught 1 on senko worm, 1 on spinner bait, 1 on Rebel minnow
  • green pumpkin w black flakes senko
  • Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
  • Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
  • Rootbeer senko
  • green pumpkin senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • xps swimbait
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Small swim bait. Also my 12 year old son caught one on a shiner. From this and previous trips, seen some close to a pound in here. Pretty decent size for a perch.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 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
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • 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.
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • blue silver reble

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 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

  • slow slow slow presentation
  • j9 black/gold
  • Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
  • was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
  • - White (Bass Pro)

    - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
  • Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
  • switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
  • 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
  • shallow crank square almost matching bass color
  • kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • 3 keepers, one was culled

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • regular silver spoon
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • trout worms
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • live worm on float
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Greyish, green, red face

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Cut mackerel
  • Power bait
  • yellow power eggs
  • Yellow power eggs
  • yellow power bait
  • 3 Berkley Gulp Salmon Eggs on a treble hook floating from the bottom about 8-10inches high.

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