Fishing near Dover in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Mirror Carp, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
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New PB near Dover

New PB

I need to get a scale. Not sure what it weighed but was much bigger than anything else I've caught.
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5LB 13OZ near Dover

5LB 13OZ

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5 EVEN near Dover

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Top Fishing Spots near Dover

Chickering Pond
Chickering Pond

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Charles River
Charles River

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Little Farm Pond
Little Farm Pond

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Lake Waban
Lake Waban

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Buckmaster Pond
Buckmaster Pond

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Wellesly College Pond
Wellesly College Pond

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Dover Area Fish Species

Recent Dover Fishing Reports

Nice day on the Charles Fishing Report Oct 14, 2013

Nice day on the Charles

Needham, MA -

Got out with my buddy for a few hours on the Charles in Needham on Saturday morning. Not a lot of bites but I landed my biggest fish of the year....

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SMOKECITY/MOREFISH 3 SLOBS!!!! Fishing Report Jul 07, 2012

SMOKECITY/MOREFISH 3 SLOBS!!!!

CHARLES RIVER/DOVER -

ME AND MATTY HIT UP OUR SPOT ON THE RIVER TODAY STARTED BY 5:15 FISHED TILL 230 3 GOT A NICE FULL DAY IN WITH ABOUT 40 BASS AT LEAST A DOZEN 2'S H...

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Fun Day at Red Wing Bay  Fishing Report Jul 08, 2012

Fun Day at Red Wing Bay

The Charles River,Needham/Dover -

I got on the water right at sunrise and had the Charles to myself.Caught 6 Bass,4 were keepers with a biggun weighing 3 pounds.Got a couple Crappie al...

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Rain delay at the Charles Fishing Report Jun 26, 2012

Rain delay at the Charles

Charles River Dover/Needham, Ma -

Got up at 5am to get a good start on the day only to have to wait 3 hours for the rain to let up, almost decided not to put in the water. Ended up fis...

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Charles River - Needham Fishing Report Oct 27, 2012

Charles River - Needham

Charles River - Needham -

Got back onto the Charles for the first time since July. The water levels are low but reasonable, the water is still dark and murky but the weeds have...

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Down the river Fishing Report Jul 05, 2012

Down the river

Charles River Dover/Needham line -

My trip started around 12:15 with temps in the low 80's and mostly sunny skies. I mostly fished lilly pads/veg and along the edges where I caught...

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Baits and Tackle used near Dover

Check Prices

  • Little Cleo Spoon in Copper and Silver
  • Fat body rubber craw, watermelon candy color
  • sweetcorn
  • bait
  • senkos
  • senkos blk/blu flake
  • GARRY YAMMAMOTO (GREEN WHITE) NO WEIGHT
  • zoom finese watermelon seed
  • assorted plastics
  • Corn/catfish bait
    (see the trip details and other hotspots for more info)

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • worm
  • slug
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • 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.
  • Large and XL Shiners
  • Large Minnows
  • Shiner one foot below float.

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • 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'.
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.

Minnow Check Prices

  • small minnows, pretty active
  • shiner
  • 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
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Dead minnows
  • shiners
  • medium-sized shiner
  • 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 with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Purple Flash Popper
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug
  • Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
  • 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
  • 3inch Black Jitterbug
  • Black Jitterbug
  • Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
  • Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
  • Black jitter bug.
  • I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.

Lizard Check Prices

  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Red/Red
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • green w/ red fleck
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • Sluggo
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • Two 1lb Pickerel
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

  • Joes fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
    the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
  • White Double willow spinner
  • Fishing shore line
  • Fishing tree lines
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
  • use orange spinner.. blue fox
  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
  • One 12" Jumbo Perch, and @ smaller ones

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Spro Frog
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • 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.

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Jerk Bait
  • Jerk Bait
    1st Calico was 8in
    2nd was 10in
    3rd was 9in
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • rapala
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Gold spinner
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • mepps agalia
  • 1/8 rooster tail
  • rooster tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 2 7in Calico's
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko type worm Black and Silver
  • 5" watermelon/creamwhite senko that was 'marinating' in a pumpkin/ black flake bag. In result the cream was almost a light brown color.
  • Yamamoto Black/Blue Flake Worm
  • Yamamoto Senko, Black with Red flakes
  • Pumpkinseed Senko, Watermelon Senko
  • Senko - black with blue flakes
  • green pumkin senko
  • black blue fleck senko
  • GY senko rootbeer
  • Gary Yamamoto senko
    black w large blue flakes

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Five 2lbers
    Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
  • Dropshot Sluggo
  • Dropshot
  • 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
  • Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early

    My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber

    The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
  • Drop Shot
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"

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.
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
  • 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

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala Original #7
  • bleeding hook rapala floater
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
    Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait
  • White and blue Spinnerbait
  • Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
  • Rapala Husky Jerk #6
  • Rapala Jointed Shad Rap #5

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

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
  • 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
  • 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 KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
  • strike pro
  • - White (Bass Pro)

    - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
  • Lucky Craft, Rick Clunn edition
    2.5
  • rapala
  • perch rapala
  • Matzuo competition crankbait.
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
  • switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
  • 1st was 17-1/2in 2lb-3/4lb
    3rd was 12-1/2in 3/4lb
  • Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
  • fish with zoom plastic lizard, dark blue color.
  • Tube brown and red fig
  • USED GARY YAMAMOTTO WORMS HOOKED WEEDLESS
    SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF
    PULLED IN WEEDS AND 2 BASS
    THE WEEDS DOWN IN THE COVE HAVE ALMOST COMPLETLY TAKEN OVER SEASON IS ALMOST OVER FOR SHORE FISHING DOWN THERE AND THE FISH HAVE BEEN SMALL FROM THE CHARLES THIS YEAR.
  • Northland tackle Jungle Jig
    3/8 oz Watermelon w/ blackflake, matching zoom chunk trailer
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • 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
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Sweetcorn
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Berkley PowerBait
  • Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait

    Two were 1-3/4lbs
    Five were 1-1/2lbs
    The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
  • SPINNER BAIT
  • White Berkely Honey worm
  • Natural Berkley Honey worm
  • Rainbow powerbait
  • Powerbait

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