Fishing near East Bridgewater in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Chain Pickerel, Other (Saltwater)
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Forge Pond
Forge Pond

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Mattfield River
Mattfield River

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Robbins Pond
Robbins Pond

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Town River
Town River

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Nameless Resivior
Nameless Resivior

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Skeeter Mill
Skeeter Mill

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East Bridgewater Area Fish Species

Recent East Bridgewater Fishing Reports

6 Pound 7 Ounce Largemouth Bass!!! Fishing Report May 13, 2012

6 Pound 7 Ounce Largemouth Bass!!!

Private Pond -

Went kayaking with JimC Sat afternoon,around 6 O'Clock i set the hook on a beast(6 + pounds),while trying to get it into the yak on pickerel shred...

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Mild December weather! Fishing Report Apr 10, 2012

Mild December weather!

Robbins pond, halifax -

Still getting hits on top in december....

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April Vacation Adventures Fishing Report Apr 26, 2015

April Vacation Adventures

Robbins Pond, E. Bridgewater, MA -

First trip on the water, going for largemouth....

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KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS - SEPTEMBER 19 - ROBBINS/STUMP POND Fishing Report Sep 19, 2015

KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS - SEPTEMBER 19 - ROBBINS/STUMP POND

East Bridgwater/Halifax -

Earlier today we gathered for another MAFF kayak tournament, once again fishing Stump Pond/Robbins Pond in Halifax/Bridgewater. This location was a re...

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SOMETHING TO DO ON A HOT DAY Fishing Report Jul 21, 2011

SOMETHING TO DO ON A HOT DAY

BACK OF ROBBINS POND -

WILL BE THERE AT 5:30 am TO START,, DONE AT 9ISH OR SO...

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KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS - OCTOBER 24 - ROBBINS/STUMP POND Fishing Report Oct 25, 2015

KAYAK TOURNAMENT RESULTS - OCTOBER 24 - ROBBINS/STUMP POND

East Bridgwater/Halifax -

So a group of us got together this past Saturday for another MAFF tournament. Tom's trail has ended but we wanted to get one more in, so we went b...

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Baits and Tackle used near East Bridgewater

Check Prices

  • just casst
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • shiners
  • Heddon baby torpedo

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Live eels

Creature Check Prices

  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • shiners
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • White Mouse
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • slow dragged threw beds

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white spinner white grub trailer
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts
  • white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops lazer Eye spinnerbait, nickel dual willow blades
  • 3/8oz white Bass pro Shops spinnerbait w/ nickel double-willow blades
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • wife catches bass #1 on 1/4oz colorado Booyah 'blue glimmer' spinnerbait, I got bass #2 on white 3/8oz BPS double willow spinnerbait
  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • 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
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 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
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • 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
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • 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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • LONG PURPLE WORM,, WILL SEE IN MY PHOTO
  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament 6 in worms.
  • Watermelon Green Bass Pro Jerk Bait 6 in worms
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • 6" FINESS WORM WEIGHTLESS RED W/ RED FLAKES

    TEXAS RIGGED 6" BLACK BERKLEY POWER WORM 3/8 OZ TUNGSTEN WEIGHT W/ 40MM GLASS BEAD
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • Grape worm texes rig

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
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • 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
  • Shakey Head
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 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
  • 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 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait

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

  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Rapala Original #7

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • blue silver reble
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • blue reble
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • shallow diver with sunfish pattern
  • Strike King Bitzy Minnow
  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • slow retrieve
  • using an excalibur rayburn red crankbait
  • Bomber 4A
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Northland minnow
  • 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.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • 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.
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • 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
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • trout worms
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • 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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

Grub Check Prices

  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • 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.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Black Spinner Bait


    Drop down Menu not working correctly!!
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Powerbait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Cut mackerel
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...

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