Fishing near Rockland in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Bluegill, Other (Saltwater)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 204
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1458
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Slump Buster near Rockland

Slump Buster

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Slump Buster near Rockland

Slump Buster

Secret honey hole
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Sun Fish near Rockland

Sun Fish

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Reeds Pond near Rockland

Reeds Pond

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Reeds Pond (Studleys Pond) LMB near Rockland

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My biggest Bass near Rockland

My biggest Bass

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Top Fishing Spots near Rockland

Reeds Pond
Reeds Pond

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Island Grove Pond
Island Grove Pond

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# Reviews: 4
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French Stream
French Stream

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Accord Pond
Accord Pond

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Weymouth Great Pond
Weymouth Great Pond

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9752

Cushing Pond
Cushing Pond

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Rockland Area Fish Species

Recent Rockland Fishing Reports

Rocklan Fishing Derby 6/8 Fishing Report Jul 05, 2013

Rocklan Fishing Derby 6/8

Reed's Pond, Rockland, MA -

Tied for 5th place in my age bracket and won a Zebco rod and reel....

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Slump Busting  Fishing Report Jun 11, 2014

Slump Busting

Secret Slob Pond -

So the last two weeks I've been getting skunked when I've headed out to some local watering holes. Jacobs Pond sprayed chemicals and there isn...

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Reeds Pond, Rockland, MA Fishing Report Jun 09, 2013

Reeds Pond, Rockland, MA

Reeds Pond, Rockland, MA -

Went out on my canoe at 5PM tonight. Started near the island with a variety of baits and got nary a nibble. I worked my way over to the far western ...

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Island Grove 6/25 Fishing Report Jun 25, 2013

Island Grove 6/25

Island Grove, Abington, MA -

A little after work frogging produced a 1.25 LB Largemouth over in Abington. It destroyed my frog as you can see in the pic...

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Get In My Belly! Fishing Report Mar 28, 2012

Get In My Belly!

Northshore Honey Hole -

I got my biggest of the year so far today. I've never caught a fatter bass in my life. It must have been feeding all day. Youll see what I mean...

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Forge Pond 4/16/13 Fishing Report Apr 16, 2013

Forge Pond 4/16/13

Forge Pond, Hanover -

Stopped over at Forge Pond in Hanover for, literally, 10 minutes after work and caught a 2.75 lb 17 inch Largemouth off the boat launch. Picture kind...

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Baits and Tackle used near Rockland

Check Prices

  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
  • chug bug
  • Crank baits shallow diving and top water minnow all dark colors to match the dark water and area
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • sexy shad lipless crank

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • We caught Little mackerl, and Harbor Pollock to live line for Stripers
  • SEAWORMS
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • Live eels
  • live mackerel
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • 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

  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • 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.
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • use small tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • medium-sized shiner
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • shiners
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • 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.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Dead minnows
  • small minnows, pretty active

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • White Mouse
  • 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
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • green w/ red fleck
  • slow dragged threw beds

    also got 1 ona hard jerkbait and it turned out to be a smallie

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Drop shot with a Berkley Power Bait 3" minnow.
  • berkley slug
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait

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
  • small spinerbait bluegill color
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • 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.
  • buzzbait
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • 1/4 black thumper
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Stanley Ribbit

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • I used a small colorful jerkbait to catch two and a double drop shot with white Berkley grubs for the other two.
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • 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 jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • 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

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 #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Panther Martin
  • Rooster Tail
  • mepps agalia

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

  • I was using a Baby Bass colored senko
  • Grape worm texes rig
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
  • Berkeley powerbait worm
  • baby bass senko
  • Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.
  • white senko
  • baby bass Senko rigged weightless
  • Cajun Neon Yum Dinger
  • Berkley 7" Power worm in black and blue

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.
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

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.
  • 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
  • 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"
  • Crank and buzzbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 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
  • 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

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.

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Black senko worm
  • Black senko rubber worm
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Green umbrella rig and red umbrella rig... Trolled at 8-10 RPMs. 40-60 feet deep....red white knuckle head popper
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • blue silver reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • blue reble
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

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
  • worked quickly with pauses and jerks
  • Mid depth crankbait straight retrieve.
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • Rapala 7-11 foot crankbait. Not sure what the pattern is called
  • Rapala Jerkbait - black and silver
  • Strike King Squarebill
  • slow retrieve

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • They would the black blue finesse jig with any trailer
  • 1/4 non-lead jig head, dark blue (almost black) with bright blue flake, and a ZOOM blue flake frog trailer.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Found a big panfish jig in a tree after loosing my bass jigs. Put on a yum craw black blue. Worked along the bottom.
  • Black and blue finesse jig. Rigged with a black with red fleck zoom chunk. Worked slowly along bottom
  • 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
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

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.
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • trout worms
  • 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
  • all i used was a 2 way spinner with a night crawler catches them all!!
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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
  • 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 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.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • 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.

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
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Fresh, chunked mackerel.
  • Chunked mackerel. Fresh. Baitshop frozen doesn't make the cut here...
  • Fresh, caught that day, small mackerels. Steel leader, size 8 hook.
  • Chunked mackerel
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.

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