Fishing near Duxbury in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 158
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 651
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Top Fishing Spots near Duxbury

Powder Point Bridge
Powder Point Bridge

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Bluefish River
Bluefish River

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Duxbury Bay
Duxbury Bay

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Island Creek Pond
Island Creek Pond

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Plymouth Bay
Plymouth Bay

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Chandler's Pond
Chandler's Pond

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Duxbury Area Fish Species

Recent Duxbury Fishing Reports

Blue Sky Schoolies Fishing Report Oct 21, 2013

Blue Sky Schoolies

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October 13, 2013 - Finally, a calm day with blue skies. I launched about an hour past high tide to fish the outgoing. I picked up three fish in the fi...

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9th bass over 5 this year Fishing Report Sep 23, 2016

9th bass over 5 this year

hawg heaven -

been one of my best seasons if not my best season. got my 9th bass over 5 this year! weighed in a 6 even....

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3 day weekend Fishing Report Aug 27, 2012

3 day weekend

4th Cliff, Humarock MA - Gallows Pond, Plymouth MA -

Had a 3 day weekend this weekend. Decided to fish all weekend! Went to 4th Cliff in Marshfield yesterday afternoon to fish the 730pm high tide, fished...

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NEW PB!!!!!  Fishing Report Jun 15, 2016

NEW PB!!!!!

Secret honey hole -

caught my new PB. 7.8lbs
caught this beast on a 9inch deep crank x2 blue gill.
cranked down along a drop off near some lilly pads! im super su...

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(Almost two) Personal Best Fishing Report Sep 21, 2013

(Almost two) Personal Best

Got out Friday afternoon with my buddy Chris. He is a former student of mine who was diagnosed with cancer when he was 5 (and is still battling it) wh...

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open water. WOOOOO Fishing Report Feb 22, 2016

open water. WOOOOO

perch honey hole -

went out saturday, wanted to fish one of my favorite spots but that was still completely locked, so i went to check out a new pond. it was lot windier...

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Baits and Tackle used near Duxbury

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  • Saleemander carolina rigged
  • Black Spinner bait
  • black and red spinner dual spoons and trailer hook low and slow in the weeds
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • I used rubber worms,Surprised they hit the worms this early,My buddy was using shiners and caught a 5lbs.7oz largemouth,didn't include it in this trip,There not my points.
  • just casst
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • shiners and night crawlers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fresh Mackerel
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Live pogies and bluefish.
  • eels on the bottom
  • Bluefish rigged through the head set at fifty feet with a baloon
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • live mackerel
  • Shiner one foot below float.

Creature Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • You already know

Minnow Check Prices

  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • Live minnow under a float
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Shiner live lining.
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • 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
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • berkley slug
  • berkley slug baby bass color
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • I drop in a spinner or crank bait. Make sure it is loud and early in the am. I work it from the shore and let it sink at the drop off or run it deep along the drop
  • Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 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 jerkbait
  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • Joes fly
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers
  • Butterfly Jig

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko worms, Power worms, and Tiki worms
  • Yum Dingers Wacky Rigged Green Pumpkin.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural - My go to bait.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color worm, rigged texas style on a Gamakatsu G Lock 2/0 hook. It was on a medium action spinning rod with 8LB mono. A real good fight.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural on the big one.
    Mepps inline brass spinner #2 on the smaller one.
  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Shakey Head
  • Shakey Head
    The 2 bass I caught that counted toward our limit were:
    1lb 9oz, and 1lb 4oz
    8 other Bass between 13in and 10in
  • Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.

    My limit was:
    1-1/2lber
    1lb 6oz
    1-1/4lber
    Two 1lbers
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
  • Our 5 fish limit was
    2-1/4lbs (Fred)
    1lb 5oz (Fred)
    1lb 2oz (Me)
    two 1lb 1oz (Me)

    Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
  • My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
  • Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers

    I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber
  • 3 shorts
  • 3 healthy Pickerel

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
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Black senko worm
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • zoom bass love em super fluke

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • blue reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue silver reble
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Rapala Jerkbait

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.
  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
  • Relentless all day!!!!!
  • Today, 10/31/08, used a 1" sinking Rapala, white and silver while drifting. I usually use a Kreature bait, green with black specks or Brown with purple specks.
  • My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz

    Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz
  • 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.
  • Rapala Perch
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad
  • slow retrieve
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • sexy shad lipless crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Northland minnow

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • gold little cleo
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • trout worms

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper Fishing
  • Plastic Jerk Bait

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • chartruse power bait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • Cut mackerel
  • Both Wollfish were also caught on cut clam baits. These fish are most certainly the hardest fighting specimens I have ever tangled with on one of these trips. The rod bent right over and the spool went slowly as they fought for every foot of the 250 feet they were pulled from.
  • Once again the bait of choice was cut clams. I have learned since last year that the key to using clam bait is to use a small a peice as possible in combination with getting a good peice of stomach.

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