Fishing near Scituate in Plymouth County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Burbot, Dolly Varden, Arctic Char, Other (Saltwater), Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 153
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Scituate Jettys
Scituate Jettys

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Old Oaken Bucket Pond
Old Oaken Bucket Pond

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Lewis Pond
Lewis Pond

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Mill Pond/gordon Pond
Mill Pond/gordon Pond

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Triphammer Pond
Triphammer Pond

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Perregrine White
Perregrine White

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Scituate Area Fish Species

Recent Scituate Fishing Reports

Short Striper Trip Fishing Report Jun 17, 2013

Short Striper Trip

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The original plan was to get the work done on the boat during the week and put in sunday morning for a fathers day fishing trip. Rain and work put a d...

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Best outing of '15 so far Fishing Report May 09, 2015

Best outing of '15 so far

met up with jman (Mike) to fish one of my spots this morning...Water temp on the low 60s, barely any wind this morning. It started very slow, carp jum...

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Tack Factory Pond Fishing Report Jun 19, 2015

Tack Factory Pond

Tack Factory Pond, Scituate, MA -

I love working on the South Shore! There are quite a few options to make a quick lunch trip.

The post spawn bite has been very hot.

Jus...

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Personal Record Black Crappie  Fishing Report Nov 15, 2009

Personal Record Black Crappie

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My friend and I went down to Tack Factory Pond on a cloudy April day with a dozen shiners, 3 rods, and an ambition to kick some fishy butt. We left 17...

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Crappiegeddon Fishing Report Mar 31, 2013

Crappiegeddon

Tack Factory Pond, MA -

There comes a time every year when the crappie bite at this pond turns on and the panfish are hopelessly addicted to anything thrown at them. Today wa...

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Personal Best Brookie Fishing Report Mar 28, 2013

Personal Best Brookie

Went out today at 6 o'clock to Tack Factory Pond with a couple rods set up for trout. Sent my silver and red Lil Jake out wicked fah and the secon...

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Baits and Tackle used near Scituate

Check Prices

  • Heddon baby torpedo
  • used a thumping spinnerbait dark colored senko and black buzzbait
  • 1/4 oz double willow white spinnerbait with silver blades
  • chug bug
  • pumpkin seed, perch
  • white rubber worm, shiners, nightcrawlers
  • shiners and night crawlers
  • small largemouth, perch, pumpkin seed, Crappie
  • sexy shad lipless crank
  • just casst

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Green Havoc Pit Boss on a Yum Shakeyhead Jig
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss
  • Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20
    -Dirty Sanchez, and Watermelon/Red colors.
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • 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.
  • Strike King KVD Bluegill Swim Jig
  • Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • texas rigged baby creatures. on weedlines
  • Black and Blue as usual

Tube Check Prices

  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners under a bobber.
  • Used mostly shiners. Caught 1 on a spinner and crank as well.
  • We used shiners, white worms, spoons, and night crawlers
  • medium-sized shiner
  • shiners
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • Dead minnows

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bomber red and white cigar style topwater, walkin the dog.
  • 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
  • Rebel Pop-R - Silver/Blue patern.
  • Rebel Pop-R blue herring pattern.
  • Strike King® Spit-N-King® Premier Hardbaits Sexy Blueback Herring patern
  • Rebel Popper
  • Rebel Pop-R
  • 1/4 oz BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog.
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Cricket Frog 1/4oz
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • 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
  • wacky rig
    couldnt set the hook today...lost alot of bass
  • Caught on Gary Yamamoto Senko
  • KVD jerkbait suspended 4-5ft
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 1/4 black thumper
  • buzzbait
  • Strike King Premier Plus 3/8oz Bluegill
  • 3/16 white spinnerbait

    burned near surface
  • tossed a ton of stuff

    but all the fish but 1 perch came on a spinnerbait
  • 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.
  • SPinnerbait double willows tried with several speeds. Also used minus1 crankbait slow rolled.
  • 2lb on a Berkley slug Big bass ona spinnerbait
  • Strike King Black and Blue Spinner bait.
  • Black Spinner bait with bronze blades.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Even the missed hits were blasted at by the fish.

    Also caught them on a buzzbait but those hits were slurped in.
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Olive Shad X-Rap
  • Rapala jerkbait
  • Rapala Shadow Rap (silver)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • I got the lure at Dick's on the sale end cap. I forget the brand.
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Golden Shiner pattern.
  • seinko 5" junebug purple

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps Aglia spinner, jigged and casted, more success jigging.
  • gold willow spoon, yellow rooster tail, glass bead clacker
  • Mepps Agila #1 silver.
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail
  • Mepps inline spinner #0 in silver. Was trying for trout.
  • Panther Martin spinner
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • All in between 6 an 10 inches
  • My First Ever Pike and was only 6 inches, lol
  • 7 and 8 inches

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Various jigs worked along with different teasers
  • Sabiki rig, white

Worm Check Prices

  • 4" YUM Dinger
  • Wacky Worming a YUM plastic worm.
  • Wacky Worming
  • Berkeley powerbait worm
  • Yamamoto white colored wacky rigged
  • 6" blk w/blue flk. ribbontail. texas rig, weightless
  • white senko
  • baby bass Senko rigged weightless
  • baby bass senko
  • Green Pumpkin and Chartruese 4" YUM Dinger.

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.
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

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

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 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
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Powerbait
  • Rooster tail
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.

Craw Check Prices

  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • blue silver reble
  • blue reble
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Ms Slammers and 3:16 baby wakes in Rainbow trout colors
  • 7" dark trout 2x slammer
  • 7" dark trout 2x ms slammer
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • Rapala Jerkbait

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

  • Rapala XRap
  • KVD Square Bill 1.0 TN Shad 2-4ft depth
  • KVD 1.0 square bill crank bait TN Shad
  • Strike King Squarebill
  • 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
  • slow retrieve

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Jigs in shoreline cover did 95% of the damage
  • Throwing a sweet beaver pegged with a 3/8 oz threw the mats and caught a pickerel and ripped the beaver to shred's.
  • 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.

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
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • 5" and 6" Senko

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Lil Jake, silver with red dots.
  • 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
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons

Herring Check Prices

  • Live lining mackeral
  • Herring Chunk

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

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.

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.
  • 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.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Swimming a 3' grub on a 1/4 oz. jighead through some lily pads.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Seaworms
  • Sea Worms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water

Other Check Prices

  • We used Clams On Jigs with teasers (little grubs)
  • Chunked, frozen, garbage mackerel.
  • Cut mackerel
  • Both Wollfish were also caught on cut clam baits. These fish are most certainly the hardest fighting specimens I have ever tangled with on one of these trips. The rod bent right over and the spool went slowly as they fought for every foot of the 250 feet they were pulled from.
  • Once again the bait of choice was cut clams. I have learned since last year that the key to using clam bait is to use a small a peice as possible in combination with getting a good peice of stomach.
  • Pogy
  • Some people were using jigs, but I had some early success with cut clam, so I stuck with that.
  • 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...

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