Fishing near Norwell in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Bluegill, Other (Saltwater)
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Bluegill near Norwell

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Off the bridge at Gordon Pond in the Norris Reservation.
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Top Fishing Spots near Norwell

Mill Pond/gordon Pond
Mill Pond/gordon Pond

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Jacobs Pond
Jacobs Pond

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North River
North River

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Indian Head River
Indian Head River

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Luddams Ford
Luddams Ford

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Old Oaken Bucket Pond
Old Oaken Bucket Pond

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Norwell Area Fish Species

Recent Norwell Fishing Reports

my south shore honey hole Fishing Report Jul 11, 2012

my south shore honey hole

south shore -

I take a trip to my local honey hole after work a few times a week and fish from various shore spots, primarily with a light setup and rubber worms. T...

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Cold Water Pickerel Fishing Report Mar 15, 2013

Cold Water Pickerel

Norris Reservation, MA -

Fished Norris Reservation in Norwell for about an hour and a half with an olive shad Rapala X-Rap. Was out for bass but ended up catching a pickerel, ...

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Jacobs Pond 4/9/13 Fishing Report Apr 09, 2013

Jacobs Pond 4/9/13

Pickerel-fest continues. Caught this little guy at lunch today. A whopping 13" and about 1/2 a pound. Nailed the same KVD 1.0 square bill cran...

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Jacobs Pond 9/20/13 Fishing Report Sep 20, 2013

Jacobs Pond 9/20/13

Jacobs Pond, MA -

Had a half hour to kill at lunch time today. The fish were very active at Jacobs. Caught a nice 13 inch LMB and a pickerel that luckily fell of the ...

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July 4th Jacobs Jamboree Fishing Report Jul 04, 2012

July 4th Jacobs Jamboree

Jacobs Pond, Norwell MA -

Awful trip name I know, haha. Just had to make something lame with all J's. Lol. So we decided to head to Jacobs Pond at around 630 before heading...

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First Bass' of 2k14 Fishing Report Apr 14, 2014

First Bass' of 2k14

Jacobs Pond, Norwell MA -

Only my 3rd time out this year, decided to throw a Chatterbait after reading some recent posts here by Stratos etc. Was throwing a 3/8 Black&Blue Z-Ma...

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Baits and Tackle used near Norwell

Check Prices

  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • just casst
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • chug bug

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • live mackerel
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • SEAWORMS
  • Live eels
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.

Creature Check Prices

  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 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
  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • berkley slug
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 1/4 black thumper
  • buzzbait
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • managed 2 bass 1 perch and a sunfish. Small bass and the panfish were on a j9 and the big girl came on a buzzbait.
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • small spinerbait bluegill color

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • 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
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Strike King Rage Toad

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • 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 Shadow Rap (silver)
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches

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

  • Berkeley powerbait worm
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless
  • 4" YUM Dinger
  • Wacky Worming
  • Wacky Worming a YUM plastic worm.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color crawler Texas rigged on a Gamakatsu 2/0 G Lock hook.
  • pumpkinseed worm wacky style
  • pitching worms under docks,into brush and across points
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 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.
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch

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.
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 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
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • 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
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • blue silver reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue reble
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer

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

  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • Rapala XRap
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • Strike King Squarebill
  • slow retrieve

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • 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
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Northland minnow
  • yamamoto swimsenko

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • gold little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb
  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • rattler
  • 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.
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral
  • Herring Chunk

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.
  • medium speed

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.
  • 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 with a tail.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill

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

  • Cut mackerel
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)

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