Fishing near Holyoke in Hampden County, MA

3.7 Rating based on 121 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 82
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 145
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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

Darren's first this morning
Nice job
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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

36 1/2 inches
Yeah Baby New PB
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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

Call the Carps
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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold CT River" near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold CT River"

New PB 28lbs 36 inches

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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold CT River" near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold CT River"

10 solid mins
Great Fight and Job Ham
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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold Ct River near Holyoke

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold Ct River

Water was on FIRE!!!!!
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Top Fishing Spots near Holyoke

Nashawannuck Pond
Nashawannuck Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Hampton Ponds
Hampton Ponds

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 6795

Oxbow Pond
Oxbow Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Views: 6124

Buck Pond
Buck Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4756

Chapin Pond
Chapin Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2152

Chicopee River
Chicopee River

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5162

Holyoke Area Fish Species

Recent Holyoke Fishing Reports

my 117th species ever caught in next day!  Fishing Report May 21, 2013

my 117th species ever caught in next day!

Connecticut River -

Guess what I caught? That is what I expected! SHAD!!! I was totally crushed them! Fished at connecticut river on saturday midnight to 6am before I wen...

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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping on the Ct River  Fishing Report Jun 09, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping on the Ct River

Ct River -

My first trip ever to the CT River, it will not be the last either!! It's great when long rides are worth the trip.
Morning starts at 2am, 45 ...

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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River" Fishing Report Sep 16, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River"

Ct River -

It's getting late in the year, but the Carp are still here....

Head West young man is what the phrase used to be when panning for Gold, it ...

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Ct River baby!!!!!!! Fishing Report May 02, 2016

Ct River baby!!!!!!!

Ct River -

Shad and Carp and Stripers o my

o yeah...

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Muskie Adventure Tours "The Brooksy Conquest" Fishing Report Jun 30, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours "The Brooksy Conquest"

Ct River -

I made a post asking who wanted a Trophy Carp and low and behold Brooksy answered the call. He is a different Man.

1:30am and away we go, Exit ...

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connecticut river trip Fishing Report Jul 06, 2008

connecticut river trip

northampton, mass. -



this will be short, i fished the connecticut river for my first time yesterday...7/05/08.. and learned you need to fish it with real crawler...

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Baits and Tackle used near Holyoke

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • shinners
  • Flies and Jigs
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • rubber grub
  • Bluegill
  • mixed color senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Live Carwfish

Tube Check Prices

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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

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

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless
  • Rapala blue and white rattle

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • meppes
  • Rooster Tail
  • rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT
  • Copper John

Worm Check Prices

  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • senko
  • black senko
  • Yam's off all sorts and colors... thats it.
    Also caught smallmouth and a couple of chain pickeral.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senco stretch 40
  • jig heads / swim tails
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • 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.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive
  • litle plastic minnows

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Candy
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  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • 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
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait

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