Fishing near Rockport in Essex County, MA

3.82 Rating based on 66 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Haddock, Pollock, Striped Bass, Atlantic Cod, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 56
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 121
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Famous Lobster shack in Rockport, MA near Rockport

Famous Lobster shack in Rockport, MA

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Top Fishing Spots near Rockport

Sandy Bay
Sandy Bay

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Pigeon Cove
Pigeon Cove

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Folly Cove
Folly Cove

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Ipswich Bay
Ipswich Bay

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Gloucester Harbor
Gloucester Harbor

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2780

Essex Bay
Essex Bay

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1665

Rockport Area Fish Species

Recent Rockport Fishing Reports

jus another tirp Fishing Report Apr 06, 2010

jus another tirp

cape pond -

went up cape pond nuthin was biting i cant find a good spot for s***....

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Opening day Fishing Report Jan 04, 2010

Opening day

Cape Pond, Gloucester, MA -

Having grown up in Upstate New York, I never really thought of 4" of powder an issue. Apparently I was mistaken, however. I guess that's wh...

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Cape Pond Fishing Report Oct 16, 2009

Cape Pond

Cape Pond, Gloucester, MA -

Looked on the map and found a few freshwater ponds out in the Cape Ann/Gloucester area. Parked off Eastern Ave/MA - 127 and hiked in to this reservoi...

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Tons of sharks on Jeffrey's Fishing Report Aug 21, 2016

Tons of sharks on Jeffrey's

Jeffrey's Ledge, MA -

Went out with Yankee Fleet again seeing as the cod are now in season. This time, we went up pretty far on Jeffrey's Ledge. Within seconds of dropp...

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striped bass Fishing Report Jul 16, 2010

striped bass

gloucester habor -

lookin for bass...

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sun fish Fishing Report Jul 04, 2010

sun fish

cape ann sportsmans club -

went to th sports mans club the other day and jus caught sunfish all damn day....

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Baits and Tackle used near Rockport

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  • plastic worm
  • tip ups with shiners
  • One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
  • clams
  • minnoes NO bobber
  • Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
  • Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
  • Cut clams, just like everything else that day.
  • Cut clams on the bottom.
  • Clams or seaworms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel
  • Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
  • Clams
  • Live mackerel
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.
  • Sea worm
  • Fresh live mackeral
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms

Tube Check Prices

  • Tube and huge sea worms

Minnow Check Prices

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Xcalibur jimmy

Lizard Check Prices

  • Baby bass lizard
  • hit while sinking

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Dark Colors
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Non-Keeper
  • Sabiki rig, white
  • Giant swedish pimple

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • 5 inch dinger
  • Shakey Head
  • Shakey Head
    1st was 1lb 5oz
    2nd was 1lb
  • I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
  • char. color senko
  • Gulp red "bloodworms"
  • Two 1lbers, and 4 others between 10"-12" off docks, and oeverhanging brush

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We each caught 5 Keepers each.
    Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.

    I also had three 1-1/4lbers
  • Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
  • Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
  • 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
  • Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
  • silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

  • #3 crank bait dark colored
  • and senkos too
  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Wet Fly Check Prices

Herring Check Prices

  • chunks
  • Herring Chunk

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • chunked herrin
  • Clams
  • Calms - 25" and a 18"
  • Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
  • Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
  • Calms - All Between 10"-12"
  • Calms
  • Clams
    1st was 25"
    2nd was 20"

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • gub on worm hook

Live Baits Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Clams fished in 323 feet deep water
  • clams for bait, catching doubles all day
  • Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
  • clams
  • clam
  • Clam
  • Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
  • More cut clams this time. Tried to include darker pieces of stomch, the fish seem to bite more often on those.
  • Cut clam on a weighted hook brought this one in.
  • clams fished on bottom in about 100 feet of water

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