Fishing near Sharon in Norfolk County, MA

3.47 Rating based on 476 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Bluegill, Mirror Carp
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 230
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 1977
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Off the Docks  near Sharon

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Just another bass near Sharon

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Gavins Pond near Sharon

Gavins Pond

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Top Fishing Spots near Sharon

Massapoag Lake
Massapoag Lake

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Manns Pond
Manns Pond

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Wolomolopoag Pond
Wolomolopoag Pond

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Canoe River
Canoe River

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# Reviews: 5
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No Name Pond
No Name Pond

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Shepard Pond
Shepard Pond

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Sharon Area Fish Species

Recent Sharon Fishing Reports

First trip to Massapoag Fishing Report Aug 23, 2015

First trip to Massapoag

Lake Massapoag, Sharon -

On the way home from Bass Pro Shops, I hit up Massapoag Pond for the first time with my dad. We found a dock at a good spot for some bank fishing and ...

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Rainy Day Fishing Fishing Report May 24, 2010

Rainy Day Fishing

Lake Massapoag, MA -

Just getting out there try to fish a little on my only day off ...

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A day on MAssapoag Lake Sharon  Fishing Report Aug 23, 2017

A day on MAssapoag Lake Sharon

MAssapoag Lake -

We fished from 7:30 AM to 1PM had three Xmouth bass. I caught two on a lipless Sexy Shad crankbait white belly blu back. FOOW14 caught his bass on a D...

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Gavin Pond Fishing Report Jul 17, 2008

Gavin Pond

Gavin Pond, 02067 -

Really weedy....but....within 3 feet of shore in the thickness, this 4.1 pounder took my Senko (5" green with red specks) and dove into the weeds...

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Gavin Pond Fishing Report Apr 10, 2009

Gavin Pond

Gavin Pond -

After driving all the way to Plymouth and catching only one pickerel out of 3 ponds, I came home and tried an oldie but goodie...Gavin Pond...on a GY ...

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Harrison's Pond 5/11/10 Fishing Report May 11, 2010

Harrison's Pond 5/11/10

Harrison's Pond Stoughton, MA -

Went out on Harrison's in the boat with Wood, using rubber worms and trying out the new "Gulp" baits from Berkley. I hauled in 13 fish i...

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Baits and Tackle used near Sharon

Check Prices

  • Rubber worms, swimbaits
  • black worm
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • buzzbait and slug
  • Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
  • shiners
  • shiner
  • white spinner bait
  • total junk fishing day caught them on plastics cranks topwater buzzers spinners no strong pattern other than rocks trumped grass

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • worm
  • slug
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • 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

Creature Check Prices

  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • 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'.
  • 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
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • use small tube
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • 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
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • shiners
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Shiners
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • topwater and worms
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • Purple Flash Popper
  • Rapala Poppers
  • White Mouse
  • BooYah Pad Crasher Junior Frog in a Cricket Pattern

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • 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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • red 5" Senko
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • Sluggo
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • berkley slug
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • rapala jerkbait bass colored suspended 4-5 ft

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
  • Fishing tree lines
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • Fishing shore line
  • single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
  • Rebel Buzz'n Frog
  • 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.
  • H&H spinnerbait with blue/chartreuse skirt
  • Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Spro Frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Used Zoom Horny Toad watermelon color and Senko watermelon seed
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm
  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • 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
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • 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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Rooster Tail
  • Gold spinner
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
  • #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Berkley Powerbait
  • 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin also.
  • 5" stick worms YUMM green pumpkin and BassPro green with red, blue, and gold flake. This one was on a YUMM green Pumpkin
  • Green Worm, Texas Rig
  • rat l trap, wacky worm
  • green w/ red flake
  • green bass pro worm with purple flakes
  • Senko
  • Two 1-1/4lbers
    1lber
    10 incher
  • Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Yamosenko rigged Texas.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

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
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Dropshot
  • Drop Shot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • 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

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

  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Powerbait
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • bleeding hook rapala floater
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
    Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

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.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • 7" and 9" slammers in perch and rainbow trout

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
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 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
  • shallow crank square almost matching bass color
  • kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.
  • Shallow Water Daiwa Crank. Fished slow
  • Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well
  • switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
  • 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
  • slow slow slow presentation
  • i had 29 and nicholas had 34. mostly rapalas, but they were hitting everything we put in the water. most were 10 / 11 inches. a few smaller, a couple bigger.
  • nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Olive wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • 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
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • Live night crawler on a drop shot.
  • trout worms
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • we used live worms it worked very well

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
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • 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...

Grub Check Prices

  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Berkley White Grub.
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Berkley Grub drenched in Berkley Gulp Alive fish attractant.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Powerbait
  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Sweetcorn
  • Cut mackerel
  • Power bait

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