Fishing near Sandwich in Barnstable County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Scup (Porgy)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 159
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 356
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The Proverbial Last Cast near Sandwich

The Proverbial Last Cast

Got this beauty after looking to the sky before my last cast and asking for help!
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It's bigger than it looks near Sandwich

It's bigger than it looks

Around 4 pounds
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Twins near Sandwich

Twins

My only smallies today
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Top Fishing Spots near Sandwich

Hoxie Pond
Hoxie Pond

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Spectacle Pond (sandwich)
Spectacle Pond (sandwich)

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Upper Shawme
Upper Shawme

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Lawrence Pond
Lawrence Pond

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Scorton Creek
Scorton Creek

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Shawme Pond
Shawme Pond

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Sandwich Area Fish Species

Recent Sandwich Fishing Reports

Surfin' for Stripers Fishing Report Sep 13, 2013

Surfin' for Stripers

Sandwich, MA -

A friend and I took an end-of-day trek down to Sandwich to do a little night-time fly fishing from the beach. The weather was warm and the sky clear b...

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The Proverbial Last Cast (Spectacle Pond) Fishing Report Jul 24, 2011

The Proverbial Last Cast (Spectacle Pond)

Spectacle Pond -

Woke at 3am, grabed a coffee and hit 495S. From Taunton to Yarmouthport is about an hour and 15 minute ride, if I make the jump to Hyper Space my Infi...

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Great Morning! Fishing Report Sep 13, 2014

Great Morning!

Upper Cape Pond -

Hit the water just after 0630 this morning. Northeast breeze, so I worked the east and northeast shore of one of my favorite Upper Cape Ponds. Worke...

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Lawrence Pond Fishing Report Sep 08, 2009

Lawrence Pond

Sandwich, MA. -

A trip by myself to the Cape and a sleepover at my in laws house. This place was great. A total of 8 smallies and 1 largemouth bass. I used two rod...

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7/9/12 Fishing Report Jul 10, 2012

7/9/12

Cape Cod -

My Dad and I went to Cape Cod to a pond. We got all your fish on a shakey head and a drop shot in 8ft-9ft range. The water temp. was 82 dregrees. At t...

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Daytime fishing Fishing Report Sep 03, 2014

Daytime fishing

Upper Cape Pond -

Decided to go out during the day today. I didn't have high expectations. A cold front had just moved through, it was sunny, breezy, and warm, an...

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Baits and Tackle used near Sandwich

Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
  • Drop Shot
    1st was 11-1/2"
    2nd was 6"
  • We used live shiners, 3-4 inch, and any lure you can think of. They crush anything at this place...HUNGRY fish...
  • Senko. Purple with purple flake
  • Senko purple with purple flake.
  • frogs
  • Ultra light mitchell spidercast reel combo 4lb test, fun fun fun. when the bass aren't hitting
  • Worm
  • Rubber worm Wacky Style
  • Dont realy remember

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eels on the bottom
  • eels
  • We used worms to catch smaller fish cast them out and brought them back in slowly
  • Sand Eels
  • Clams
  • wroms
  • sea worms
  • seaworms
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • Used some Medium Shinners

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Pit Boss in Junebug, Green Pumpkin and Black / Blue
  • You already know
  • Green pumpkin Brush Hog
    5" wacky rigged green pumpkin stick bait (senko knockoff)
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Flipping a laydown

Tube Check Prices

  • 2 Keepers:
    1.79lbs
    1lb

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

    1 Short
  • 3 for 7.99lbs
    One was about 2lbs, One about 3lbs, and my Lunker of the day was 3lbs 1oz

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiner live lining.
  • Shiners, 3-4 inch
  • shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
  • Live minnow under a float
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • mumpers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • I was using a Super Spook Jr and 6" blue/black senkos.

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon zoom brush hog jr. on carolina rig w 1/2 oz worm weight
  • Downsized carolina 1/4 oz weigth w5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard
  • 5 inch watermelon red zoom lizard downsized carolina rig
  • slow dragged threw beds

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Barbie color spinnerbait cranking from out from shore line. This fish hit in about 10 ft of water had a couple of more followers but that was it. Then the winds and rain picked up and it was tuff fishing from there on in .My boater caught a nice one about 4 hrs later with a crank bait and that was it on the hits fished many of the same spots as Micahel K draging jigs and tubes not a bite. big fish of the day was 6+ large mouth and a 5+ smallie
  • Spinnerbait, Drop shot
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • Mepps Agila inline spinner silver and red #1.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
  • Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
  • STRIKE KING SPINNER
  • med speed retrieve
  • Strike king bleeding spinner bait... Casting to an over hanging tree
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Paycheck Baits "Transporter
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
  • 4" huskey jerk bait greenw/orange bottom
  • 4in senkos in various colors
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • Jerk Bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
  • Joes fly
  • Panther Martin rainbow trout inline spinner #1
  • 7 and 8 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
    1st - 12in
    2nd -12 1/4in
    4th - 12 1/2in

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 8 inchWatermelon senko w/ red hook
  • Senko
  • Started with pumpkinseed lizard and switched to 5" baby bass senko
  • 4 inch green pumkin senko rigged wacky
  • Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
  • Texas rigged Berkley Gulp 4" crawler.
  • 5" senko worm, wacky style
  • 5" senko worms, wacky style. Used alot of scent, and kept bait moving, bumping it off the bottom.
  • Berkley 7" Black Shad
    Berkley 7" Tequila Sunrise
  • Rubber worms Wacky style

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Bladed baits
  • Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • 1lb, 3/4lb, 11', and 8" on the Drop Shot, 10" on C-Rig
  • Drop shot
  • Keepers were:
    2.77lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1-1/2lbs
    1-1/4lbs

    One 11" short
  • Drop Shot
    1 Keeper @ 1-3/4lbs
    Four 11" range shorts
  • Drop Shot
  • All between 11" & 11-1/2"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • My limit was:
    2.30lbs
    Three 1lbers
    13oz

  • 1st was 3.72lb Tourney Lunker
    Other two were 1-1/2lbs each

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • GOOD OLD SENKO
  • 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

Craw Check Prices

  • Our Bag was:
    Paul's 3.85lber, 3-1/2lber, one a little over 2lbs, and my 3-1/2lber
  • 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
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo-zuri crystal minnow
  • Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • using rainbow jig with a 2 sinker.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 3 on Squarebill, 1 on Drop Shot.
  • 2lb 6oz, and 1lb 2oz
  • Sexy Shad, White Belly and blue back
    Diving Billed Plug, White Belly grey back
  • rapala bleeding floater
  • Rapala Original Floater F-11 - Minnow
  • 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
  • Strike King KVD 1.5 Sexy Shad
  • 1-Minus crankbait in a Bluegill pattern

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1/2 Oz Brownish/Greenish football jig w/Green Pumpkin Chigger Chunk trailer
  • 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
  • use bass jig # 10 with wire line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Northland minnow
  • on a Boag Hog Stand-Up Head

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • I seem to have lots of luck with these at that pond, lol

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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Sea Worm on a slider rig
  • 33" was my other keeper
    And 4 Schoolies between 25"-15"

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • White grub
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • squid/ clam/ mackerel typically

Flies Check Prices

Other Check Prices

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

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