Fishing near Randolph in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Dolly Varden, Bluegill, Chain Pickerel, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 222
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1921
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Top Fishing Spots near Randolph

Sylvan Lake
Sylvan Lake

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Cochato River
Cochato River

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Richadi Reservoir
Richadi Reservoir

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Lake Holbrook
Lake Holbrook

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Cranberry Pond
Cranberry Pond

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Ponkapoag Pond
Ponkapoag Pond

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Randolph Area Fish Species

Recent Randolph Fishing Reports

Good day at the Ponds Fishing Report May 24, 2014

Good day at the Ponds

I headed to a south shore pond this morning. I had the kayak on the water at 6:45 a.m. and fished til 11:45 a.m. I worked the entire NE/E shoreline ...

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First Fish of the Season Fishing Report Mar 20, 2014

First Fish of the Season

Plymouth -

I had the day off today so tried to find some open water. I drove down to Plymouth to one of the ponds I fished a bunch last season. It was 100% ope...

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Sylvan lake Fishing Report Jul 24, 2012

Sylvan lake

Sylvan lake, Holbrook , ma -

I went out last week to a little lake about 5 minutes down the street from my house. Not a lot of people fish here so its kinda nice I was down there ...

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Sylvan with my dad 6/18 Fishing Report Jun 18, 2012

Sylvan with my dad 6/18

Sylvan lake, Holbrook , ma -

My dad had the morning off so i took him to my local honey hole. Hes never been to this lake before but always was interested in trying it out. He was...

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Just for the Heat of it! Fishing Report Jul 18, 2013

Just for the Heat of it!

Lake Holbrook, MA -

Unplanned trip, went out to the local lake and found a decent submerged rock to stand on and throw a couple casts in the early afternoon. Targeted the...

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quick trip to the local res Fishing Report Apr 18, 2013

quick trip to the local res

great pond -

went to the great pond in Braintree during the last hour of sunlight tonight. only fished for about an hour but brought in a 3lber on a 3/8 once manns...

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Baits and Tackle used near Randolph

Check Prices

  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • earthworm
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass
  • white spinner bait
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait and floating a worm off the bottom...
  • Nightcrawler
  • buzzbait and slug
  • Rubber worms, swimbaits
  • chug bug

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • SEAWORMS
  • 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.
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Live eels
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig

Creature Check Prices

  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • use small tube
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Minnow Check Prices

  • shiners
  • medium-sized shiner
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
  • Dead minnows
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • White Mouse
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • pencil popper
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Pop-R

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • green w/ red fleck
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • 8" Pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • baby bass berkley slug
  • berkley slug
  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft

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

  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • using a curly tailed soft bait on the jig hook - slow to moderate retrieve, just enough to keep the spinners going and the bait a foot below the surface.
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 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.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Spro Frog
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.

    Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • 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)
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • rapala

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Panther Martin
  • Rooster Tail
  • mepps agalia
  • Gold spinner
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • rooster tail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail

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

  • Rootbeer senko
  • Wacky-rigged dark green flaked worm
  • Pink Strike King Finesse Worm
  • caught 1 on senko worm, 1 on spinner bait, 1 on Rebel minnow
  • 5" baby bass senko & popper
  • green pumpkin w black flakes senko
  • purple senko
  • 6" Senko in Green Pumpkin. Fished in an unweighted Texas-rig with a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • watermelon red and black plastic worm
  • Berkley Power Work

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Storm shad mullet color
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • 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.
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • xps swimbait
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Dropshot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Drop Shot
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range
  • Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
    My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz

    what didn't make the cut:
    two 1lb 6oz
    half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
    one 14oz
    one short
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

    Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Black senko worm
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rapala Original #7

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • blue silver reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

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
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • j9 black/gold
  • Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
  • slow slow slow presentation
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
  • - White (Bass Pro)

    - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
  • Strike King Squarebill
  • Rapala XRap
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • 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.
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Berkley chartreuse and orange wiggly tail rigged texas style.
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • trout worms
  • 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
  • nice large nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • We each culled one Bass - My was a 12"3/4lb, Vinny's was 1lb

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral

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
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • 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.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Sea Worms
  • white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Power bait
  • yellow power eggs

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