Fishing near Plymouth in Plymouth County, MA

3.74 Rating based on 340 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Scup (Porgy)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 185
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 577
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Top Fishing Spots near Plymouth

Little Island Pond
Little Island Pond

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Beaver Pond
Beaver Pond

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Island Pond
Island Pond

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Fresh  Pond
Fresh Pond

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Russell Mill Pond
Russell Mill Pond

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Rocky Pond
Rocky Pond

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Plymouth Area Fish Species

Recent Plymouth Fishing Reports

Cape and plymouth area Fishing Report Oct 26, 2012

Cape and plymouth area

Cape and plymouth -

Took the day off today and headed to the Cape 1st then moved to Plymouth in the afternoon. We arrived at 8am at our #1 spot with high hopes. My buddy ...

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Testing out the Boat Fishing Report Jul 23, 2015

Testing out the Boat

Little Long Island Pond -

Hit Little Long Island Pond to test out the new 12foot dingy. Fished from 6pm to 9pm.
Caught about 15 SMALL Largemouth Bass, and my friend caught a...

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Before the rain Fishing Report Jun 27, 2013

Before the rain

Plymouth, MA -

Decided to hit up the pond. Really wanted to take advantage of the overcast and was looking to hook up with some bigguns. Didn't arrive untill 4:0...

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Why I love Unknown Location Fishing Report Jul 30, 2013

Why I love Unknown Location

Unknown Location, Plymouth MA -

Yesterday July 30th, I decided to take my cartopper in the late afternoon to 'Unknown location' in Plymouth with the gf. Turned out to be a gr...

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Plymouth area Fishing Report Jul 06, 2012

Plymouth area

Plymouth Ma -

Hit up 2 different plymouth area ponds today. on the water at 6am and off at 2pm . Slow at Pond #1 (Island Pond) Got one small bass on the MS Slammer ...

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Good time and some great memories Fishing Report May 09, 2012

Good time and some great memories

Fresh Pond -

Well after only visiting this pond 3 times in the last 20 plus years, and at that from shore for a very few minutes, thanks to my buddy it was back to...

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Baits and Tackle used near Plymouth

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  • Rubber worm Wacky Style
  • I used rubber worms,Surprised they hit the worms this early,My buddy was using shiners and caught a 5lbs.7oz largemouth,didn't include it in this trip,There not my points.
  • You can use just about any lures here, as we've had luck with all of em. Also, Nightcrawlers and shiners work good.
  • Worm
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • frogs
  • black and red spinner dual spoons and trailer hook low and slow in the weeds
  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eels on the bottom
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • Fresh Mackerel
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • eels
  • Clams
  • Sand Eels
  • Bluefish rigged through the head set at fifty feet with a baloon
  • We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
  • wroms

Creature Check Prices

  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • You already know
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
  • Flipping a laydown
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.

Tube Check Prices

  • 2 Keepers:
    1.79lbs
    1lb

    2 shorts
  • 1 Keeper:
    1-1/4lbs

    1 Short

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live minnow under a float
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • Shiner live lining.
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • mumpers
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • medium-sized shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.
  • throwing floating minnow under the docks along shore, pulling crappies and pickerel, 1 good size bass, 2+lbs but he got off the hook.
  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • 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

Lizard Check Prices

  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie
  • Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard
  • watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
  • 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • berkley slug baby bass color
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • This Big Bastard Stole My Lure!
  • 5 between 3" and 11"
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER
  • I drop in a spinner or crank bait. Make sure it is loud and early in the am. I work it from the shore and let it sink at the drop off or run it deep along the drop
  • Chatreuse/White double Colorado spinnerbait
  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.
  • white spinner white grub trailer

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter
  • 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
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • rapala xrap smallest size black silver...jerk pause retreive....
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers

Worm Check Prices

  • Rubber worms Wacky style
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style
  • 5" senko worms, wacky style. Used alot of scent, and kept bait moving, bumping it off the bottom.
  • Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
  • wacky style pumpkin
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural - My go to bait.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive Natural on the big one.
    Mepps inline brass spinner #2 on the smaller one.
  • Berkley Gulp Alive 4" natural color worm, rigged texas style on a Gamakatsu G Lock 2/0 hook. It was on a medium action spinning rod with 8LB mono. A real good fight.
  • Berkley 7" Black Shad
    Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Bladed baits

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Shakey Head
  • 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
  • My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
  • Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers

    I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber
  • 3 shorts
  • 3 healthy Pickerel
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • 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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Black senko worm
  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • blue reble
  • blue silver reble
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala Perch
  • Relentless all day!!!!!
  • My 2 limit Fish were 1lb 5oz, and 1lb 4oz

    Vinny had a 2lb 4oz, 1lb 4oz, and 1lb 3oz
  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad
  • Today, 10/31/08, used a 1" sinking Rapala, white and silver while drifting. I usually use a Kreature bait, green with black specks or Brown with purple specks.
  • 1" Rapala minnow, silver/white, drifting. I also use GY Kreature baits over the weeds and in the holes between them.
  • kevin van damn sexy chad, silver/black shiner with red accent and center mass bearings crankbaits
  • Hard Plastic Frog
  • slow retrieve

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • SENKO / GREEN/WHITE
    BROWN/PINK
    NO WIEGHT
    8 POND LINE
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk 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.
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Northland minnow
  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)
  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 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.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just put a nightcarwler on there and drop nit in ull have a bass as soon as u look blink
  • cast it to the side near the littel pump house but farther out
  • i just cast it in and let the bober plot down the littel river
  • Just worms nothing special.
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.
  • Used double drop shot with 1" white Berkley Power Bait rage tail grubs.
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • White grub
  • Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Flies Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • chartruse power bait
  • yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
  • Rainbow Power Bait
  • Green Pumpkin Spanky worm
    (Lunker City)
  • 6" slug-o's (perch and Salt & Pepper. Worked and worked over the rocks and weed beds
  • Twitch twitch pause with a jerkbait
  • Black Spinner Bait


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