Fishing near South Hadley in Hampshire County, MA

3.78 Rating based on 126 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 82
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 146
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Shallow Water Bass  near South Hadley

Shallow Water Bass

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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near South Hadley

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

Call the Carps
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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near South Hadley

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

Darren's first this morning
Nice job
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Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River near South Hadley

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping the Ct River

36 1/2 inches
Yeah Baby New PB
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4.75 lb near South Hadley

4.75 lb

Same tree, me creeping random kid out
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3lb10oz near South Hadley

3lb10oz

First one on tree lay down
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Top Fishing Spots near South Hadley

Aldrich Lake
Aldrich Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.714
# Reviews: 7
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Oxbow Pond
Oxbow Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 6124

Nashawannuck Pond
Nashawannuck Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1444

Forge Pond (cooks Corner)
Forge Pond (cooks Corner)

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1735

Chicopee Reservoir
Chicopee Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5736

Hampton Ponds
Hampton Ponds

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 6795

South Hadley Area Fish Species

Recent South Hadley Fishing Reports

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping on the Ct River  Fishing Report Jun 09, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours Carping on the Ct River

Ct River -

My first trip ever to the CT River, it will not be the last either!! It's great when long rides are worth the trip.
Morning starts at 2am, 45 ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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connecticut river trip Fishing Report Jul 06, 2008

connecticut river trip

northampton, mass. -



this will be short, i fished the connecticut river for my first time yesterday...7/05/08.. and learned you need to fish it with real crawler...

Avg. Rating: 2
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my 117th species ever caught in next day!  Fishing Report May 21, 2013

my 117th species ever caught in next day!

Connecticut River -

Guess what I caught? That is what I expected! SHAD!!! I was totally crushed them! Fished at connecticut river on saturday midnight to 6am before I wen...

Avg. Rating: 5
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New Waters Fishing Report Apr 23, 2012

New Waters

Aldrich Lake, MA -

Only had a half day at work today, so I decided to head out somewhere new in Western MA. A friend of mine lives in Granby so I decided Aldrich Lake w...

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Pig on a Frog Fishing Report Jun 20, 2010

Pig on a Frog

Aldrich Lake, Granby, MA -

Saturday morning I made it out around 6am for a bit of fishing at a small western Mass pond, Aldrich Lake. It's never been that great a place, but...

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Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River" Fishing Report Sep 16, 2013

Muskie Adventure Tours "Carping for Gold in the Ct River"

Ct River -

It's getting late in the year, but the Carp are still here....

Head West young man is what the phrase used to be when panning for Gold, it ...

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Baits and Tackle used near South Hadley

Check Prices

  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • minnows, jig
  • soft plastics to live bait
  • Flies and Jigs
  • shinners
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • rubber grub
  • berkley power bait trout nugget

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Live Carwfish
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Nightcrallers & worms

Tube Check Prices

Creature Check Prices

  • They are called brush hogs, and manufactured by Zoom baits, sold at wal-mart.

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used several baits, mostly minnows. We caght them off of deep diving crank baits, senko's, spanky worms and swimbaits. caught 1 good size largemouth under boat dock with jig n pig.
  • you play the bait and bobber set up similar to the canal at the cape.I set the bait at about 24-27",sent it up curent and let it pass you reel it back and repeat.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon

Lizard Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz c rig lizard
  • 1/4 oz c rig watermelon 5in lizard

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinnerbait , plastic worms
  • White 3/8 Strike King
  • White Rooster Tail
  • White rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala blue and white rattle
  • Texas rigged 4 inch trout colored Senco
  • Yamamoto 4 inch Senco
  • 4 inch Senco green pumpkin
  • Rapala Original
  • Yamamoto 4" Senco Texas rigged in green pumpkin, weightless

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Rooster Tail
  • meppes

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • Zoom Trick worm Color South Africa special
  • Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • senko
  • Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin
  • black senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6 inch light green senko
  • jig heads / swim tails
  • Senco stretch 40

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • Actually used a trout magnet 's to catch 1 Brook trout and 1 Brown.. C aught a rainbow on a 4 inch Yum Dinger..
  • Most were caught on a Trout Magnet . 1 on a Rapala and the other on aRooster Tail . Largest fish was the Last one caught . Trout magnet was the right bait to yse today.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Gulp Alive

Craw Check Prices

  • Yammamoto flippin hog

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4" senkos watermellon gold
  • 4' senko daquiri

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Grub Check Prices

  • Orange color grub.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Trout Magnet
  • Trout Magnet Jigs
  • Trout Magnet Jigs .Gold with Gold body
  • Trout Magnet Jig
  • Trout Magnet Gold Jig Gold Body.
    One Brook Trout and one Rainbow.

Other Check Prices

  • Candy
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  • Corn and Garlic
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • Chicken Liver
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • We use #2 hooks with leaders and tie them to our line
    A 3 oz weight to hold it on the bottom
  • YELLOW GRUB
    WEIGHTS
    BIG HOOKS

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