Fishing near Cohasset in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Bluegill, Other (Saltwater)
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Nice Rainbow! near Cohasset

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Striper Fishing near Cohasset

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Hingham Bay
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Scituate Jettys
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Old Oaken Bucket Pond
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Jacobs Pond
Jacobs Pond

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Cohasset Area Fish Species

Recent Cohasset Fishing Reports

A Nice Day Fishing Report Jun 09, 2015

A Nice Day

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A friend and I called in sick to work last Friday for a day of fly fishing. Our first stop was the Assabet where the water was running high after last...

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Only Striper of 2014 Fishing Report Apr 26, 2015

Only Striper of 2014

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Kayak fishing for stripers...

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Best outing of '15 so far Fishing Report May 09, 2015

Best outing of '15 so far

met up with jman (Mike) to fish one of my spots this morning...Water temp on the low 60s, barely any wind this morning. It started very slow, carp jum...

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Nice Day out on the Bay Fishing Report Jul 11, 2015

Nice Day out on the Bay

Massachusetts Bay -

Had a fun afternoon with some family friends earlier today in their boat. After swimming for some time down at World's End, we went out to the dee...

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4lb 14ounce Bruiser Fishing Report Sep 18, 2012

4lb 14ounce Bruiser

Central MA -

So I set off at one of my favorite spots early in the morning from like 6am till 9:15am before work. The day began pretty slow with some 1.5 to 2 poun...

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South Shore Fishing Report Oct 26, 2013

South Shore

Hingham, MA -

My son and I trekked into the woods to a new puddle that I had scoped out on Google Maps. I had a LM on a spinner bait earlier in the week but it got...

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Baits and Tackle used near Cohasset

Check Prices

  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • chug bug
  • Mackerel Chunk
    Berkly Power Bait, 3" Paddle Tail
    Artificial Crab
  • THE FRESHEST, BLOODIEST MACKEREL chunks. Nobody with store bought chunks were hitting anything.
  • Tube & Worm
    1st Striper of the 2014 season was all 12" maybe. I will add a picture when I get it developed.
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • live mackerel
  • Live eels
  • SEAWORMS
  • 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
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • 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.
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.

Creature Check Prices

  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too

Tube Check Prices

  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • tube dark...
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • use small tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • 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.
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • Used a silver/black top water popper, cast under overhanging brush and near the weeds, every few cranks I'd give a slight jerk and it drove them nuts
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • pencil popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • green w/ red fleck
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Baby bass lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • berkley slug
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 1/4 black thumper
  • buzzbait
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • 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

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • 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
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers
  • Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

  • Wacky Worming a YUM plastic worm.
  • Wacky Worming
  • 4" YUM Dinger
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
  • Berkeley powerbait worm
  • white senko
  • baby bass Senko rigged weightless
  • baby bass senko
  • Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
  • Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 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.
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • 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
  • 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

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

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

  • 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
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog

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

  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Powerbait
  • Black senko worm
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Rooster tail
  • 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

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • blue silver reble
  • blue reble
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Rapala Jerkbait

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Strike King Squarebill
  • Rapala XRap
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • 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.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • 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.
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral
  • Herring Chunk

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • trout worms
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • rattler
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • 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

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.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • 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...

Grub Check Prices

  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Dropshot
  • gub on worm hook

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Pogy
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
  • Powerbait

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