Fishing near New Braintree in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 120
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 417
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big bass on lunch near New Braintree

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Jareds Lunka near New Braintree

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Lee 2nd Place near New Braintree

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Brian 1st Place near New Braintree

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anywhere near New Braintree

anywhere

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Top Fishing Spots near New Braintree

Wickaboag Pond
Wickaboag Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 3256

Browning Pond
Browning Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 5347

Hardwick Pond
Hardwick Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1674

Fivemile River
Fivemile River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1102

Long Pond
Long Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 7792

Lake Lashaway
Lake Lashaway

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 6568

New Braintree Area Fish Species

Recent New Braintree Fishing Reports

My buddy gained 6lbs on lunch! Fishing Report Jun 04, 2010

My buddy gained 6lbs on lunch!

Doans pond, north brookfield -

My fishing partner/co-worker stop over at a pond next to our work on lunches. He just bought a frog and he usually throws that. He has caught a few fi...

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Local Pond  Fishing Report Feb 08, 2014

Local Pond

Central MAss -

Big old cat pulled through the ice ...

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Wickabog BVBA Tourny Fishing Report Jun 04, 2012

Wickabog BVBA Tourny

Wickabog -

Beautiful Day was had with my BVBA buddies! Bass bite was a little weird for me but after a coupla hrs, after breaking off a good un, I found Lms alon...

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fishing anywhere Fishing Report Sep 21, 2011

fishing anywhere

lake lashaway -

me and a buddy decided to take the boat to sturbridge and see what we could find...

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1st float of the year. Fishing Report Apr 17, 2012

1st float of the year.

Long Pond Rutland, MA. -

Got on the water by 8AM. Was a tough bite. I saw some followers but most wouldn't commit. Cicled the whole place and not a single bed yet. Finaly ...

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Long Pond-- Rutland State park Fishing Report Jun 09, 2012

Long Pond-- Rutland State park

Long- Pond-- Rutland State Park -

Definitely need a boat to do successful fishing on Long Pond. We were on the shore. Nothing...

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Baits and Tackle used near New Braintree

Check Prices

  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • Yamamoto Pumpkin Grub
  • Flies and Jigs
  • 6" Senkos
  • Dead Bait
  • Senko
    Kivas
    Rubber Frog
  • big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • Big shiners
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • Chung's Best
  • Perfect size Kivas
  • Shiinners
  • Hand size Kivas
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters

Creature Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • june bug tubes
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • June Bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • june bug tube
  • drop shots and topwater

Minnow Check Prices

  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • 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.
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • Chung's Best
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies
  • live bait old school
  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • 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

  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Jitterbug
  • Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Fast retrieve
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too
  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
  • Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook
  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Rubber Frogs, Flukes, and This hybrid lizard/fish/tube bait sold at wal-mart

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • X-Rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • Asortment of spinners.

Worm Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • Green Pumpkin Senko-style stick bait, wacky-rigged.
  • junebug w/blue fleck
  • Gary Yamamoto™®
    5inch Watermelon/Lemon
    The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
  • short plastic worm, slow pull/fall/sit retrieve
  • 5" senko
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • gary yatommotto senko black with siver flake.
  • Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
    spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • 6 inch light green senko
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers
  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • 1-1/4lber was my best
    bunch of 1lbers and shorts
  • All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
  • Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
    The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
    A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
  • They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits

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..
  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
  • 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Gulp Alive
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • Rooster tail
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz

Crankbait Check Prices

  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub
  • Wally Marshall Crappy Crank Bait with blood hooks
  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • Booyah tiger
  • 3 in the 3/4lb to 1lb range in about 10 minutes
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • crankbaits and spinners

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
  • Crawfish style.
  • brown
  • 1-1/2lber on Jig
    11" on Dropshot
  • All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
  • black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • 4"senko
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster
  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
  • silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • just a small piece

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Big
    Dead
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • White Bread
  • Corn
    Lots of it
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
  • Cheapest bait on the planet
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Corn and lots of it

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