Fishing near Somerset in Bristol County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Striped Bass, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 177
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 393
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Who my wife left me for! near Somerset

Who my wife left me for!

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Gone Fishin' near Somerset

Gone Fishin'

Caught 1 black crappie and 3 sunfish. Fished for an hour
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Swansea Dam Sunrise near Somerset

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first bass of the year near Somerset

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Top Fishing Spots near Somerset

Swansea Dam
Swansea Dam

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Taunton River
Taunton River

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Milford Pond
Milford Pond

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North Watuppa Pond
North Watuppa Pond

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Cook Pond
Cook Pond

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# Reviews: 4
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Mount Hope Bay
Mount Hope Bay

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Somerset Area Fish Species

Recent Somerset Fishing Reports

Wife caught more than me! Fishing Report May 31, 2013

Wife caught more than me!

Swansea Dam -

Fished for an hour with wife, caught black crappie and 3 sunfish....

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First Bass of the year Fishing Report Apr 03, 2010

First Bass of the year

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Went out for an hour and a half and caught my first fish of the year, a small 12 inch bass on a worm. There were alot of small bass pickerels and blue...

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swansea reservoir again Fishing Report Aug 04, 2009

swansea reservoir again

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caught 8 largemouth bass on brown and green senkos all around the same size like 1-2 pounds....

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swansea Fishing Report Sep 10, 2009

swansea

swansea res. swansea mass -

only got to fish for an hour but caught 2 bass both around a pound on senkos black w/char flex wacky rig and texas...

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swansea resv. Fishing Report Oct 04, 2009

swansea resv.

swansea res. swansea mass -

awesome afternoon 5 bass all around a lb 4 pickerels

my son also went and caught 7 bass and 1 pickerel

fished for about 2 1/2 hrs...

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swansea reservoir Fishing Report Aug 02, 2009

swansea reservoir

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Caught 1 pickerel and 3 largemouth bass on shiners and 1 largemouth bass on a brownish senko.
Be careful parking on the road tho, they love to give...

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Baits and Tackle used near Somerset

Check Prices

  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • i used pogy
  • Worm
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • shiners
  • Standard BPS Red/White 3" Popper and a purple/black spinner bait
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • live linning pogies
  • pogie chunk
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • porgy
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • sandworms
  • Used live bait and also sanko.
  • green crabs

Creature Check Prices

  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • used baby brush hog
  • 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'.
  • 4in beaver bait black and blue
    1oz tungsten

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook

Minnow Check Prices

  • live shiners and senkos
  • live shiners medium size
  • menhaden
  • mumpers
  • 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.
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners
  • Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
  • pulled a hula popper from shore into the water, got him 2 feet from shore.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Sluggo
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • neon green spinner bait
  • neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
  • caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Weedless Topwater Frog

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Mepps #1 Gold with Brown Foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • senko
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
  • black senko
  • caught on a senko while fishing for bass
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • brown senko with chartuese tail
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz
  • 1st was 13oz
    2nd was 1lb 10oz

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Green rattling to Zuri

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • A mix of 6" to 1lb
  • 2 keepers: 2lber, and 1lb 5oz
    2 shorts, and 2 lost

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • Our 5 fish limit was
    2-1/4lbs (Fred)
    1lb 5oz (Fred)
    1lb 2oz (Me)
    two 1lb 1oz (Me)

    Many other between 3-/4 to 1lb
  • Shakey Head, and Drop Shot
    My Keepers were:
    4lb 5oz
    1-1/2lbs
    Two 1lbers

    Paul had 3lber, 1-1/4lbs, a couple 1lbers
  • Lot's of baits today: topwater, dropshot, senko, spinnerbait, and shakey head.

    My limit was:
    1-1/2lber
    1lb 6oz
    1-1/4lber
    Two 1lbers
  • My 2 Clones, Paul had 2 just like mine, and the biggest of our limit was 2.78lbs
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • 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
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • shallow shad rap
  • And Lipless Crank
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait
  • bass #1, Bass Pro Shops XPS The Egg wake bait in sexy shad color. bass #2, Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye spinnerbait, 3/8oz white dual nickel willow blades
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • 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

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Black Spinner Bait


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  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn

    Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas

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