Fishing near Granby in Hampshire County, MA

3.78 Rating based on 142 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 89
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 163
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Here's a view of the Dam on Aldrich Lake!
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22" Chain pickeral near Granby

22" Chain pickeral

Caught on Aldrich lake on a live minnow
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7lb 4oz Pig on the frog near Granby

7lb 4oz Pig on the frog

Caught on a Bronzeye in 3-4 feet of water with heavy weeds.
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The scale shot that I remembered this time. near Granby

The scale shot that I remembered this time.

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Cut off picture. I need longer arms and less shaking! near Granby

Cut off picture. I need longer arms and less shaking!

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With added adrenaline motion blur near Granby

With added adrenaline motion blur

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Top Fishing Spots near Granby

Aldrich Lake
Aldrich Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.714
# Reviews: 7
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Forge Pond (cooks Corner)
Forge Pond (cooks Corner)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1735

Metacomet Lake
Metacomet Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2431

Oxbow Pond
Oxbow Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 6124

Chicopee Reservoir
Chicopee Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5736

Alden Pond
Alden Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Granby Area Fish Species

Recent Granby Fishing Reports

Aldrich Lake First time on kayak Fishing Report Jun 29, 2013

Aldrich Lake First time on kayak

Aldrich Lake -

I fish from shore all the time. I just got a new kayak and this was my first trip out. I fished only on the Big side. Caught 3 Largemouth 2.5lbs 1.78l...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Aldrich Lake First time! Fishing Report Mar 22, 2012

Aldrich Lake First time!

Granby, Ma -

Put my kayak out on Aldrich Lake for the first time!...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Aldrich Lake Trip 2 Fishing Report May 05, 2012

Aldrich Lake Trip 2

Aldrich lake in Granby, Ma -

Went back out to Aldrich lake on the Kayaks....

Avg. Rating: 4
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New Waters Fishing Report Apr 23, 2012

New Waters

Aldrich Lake, MA -

Only had a half day at work today, so I decided to head out somewhere new in Western MA. A friend of mine lives in Granby so I decided Aldrich Lake w...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Pig on a Frog Fishing Report Jun 20, 2010

Pig on a Frog

Aldrich Lake, Granby, MA -

Saturday morning I made it out around 6am for a bit of fishing at a small western Mass pond, Aldrich Lake. It's never been that great a place, but...

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Kayak trip #2 Forge Pond Fishing Report Aug 02, 2013

Kayak trip #2 Forge Pond

Forge Pond (Cooks Corner) -

Caught 4 Large Mouth. 3 on Zoom Trick worm South Africa Special color on edges of pads and one with Live Target frog Bull frog color in deep pads...

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Baits and Tackle used near Granby

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • Flies and Jigs
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • shinners
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • Big shiners
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers

Tube Check Prices

Creature Check Prices

  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • meppes

Dry Fly Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • senko
  • black senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.
  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • 4' senko daquiri
  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.
  • Trout Magnet Jig

Other Check Prices

  • Candy
    MMMMMMMMM
  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • Chicken Liver
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS

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