Fishing near Stoneham in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Common Carp
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 213
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SIT ROCK  near Stoneham

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3lb smally near Stoneham

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LMB near Stoneham

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Northwestern coves of Spot walked from Straw Point
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My biggest bass ever near Stoneham

My biggest bass ever

9+ pounds. I'm calling it 10lbs.
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stupid pickeral near Stoneham

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Top Fishing Spots near Stoneham

Spot Pond
Spot Pond

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Ell Pond
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Aberjona River
Aberjona River

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Wright’s Pond
Wright’s Pond

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Wedge Pond
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Fellsmere Pond
Fellsmere Pond

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Stoneham Area Fish Species

Recent Stoneham Fishing Reports

7/6/08 - Spot Pond - Stoneham, MA Fishing Report Jul 07, 2008

7/6/08 - Spot Pond - Stoneham, MA

Spot Pond - Stoneham, MA -

I dont know what to make of this place. Ive heard in years past it was a great place, but something happened here. Plenty of places to cast from shore...

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Spot Pond Fishing Report Jun 09, 2009

Spot Pond

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have fished Spot Pond a few times over the past month. Have caught two nice largemouth bass, one was approx. 13" the other approx 14" using...

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Spot Pond Fishing Report Jul 07, 2012

Spot Pond

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Being a city slicker I haven't had a vehicle for the last 8 years, finally got one and decided I needed to try some place new. Always heard of ru...

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Spot Pond with Crawfish Fishing Report Sep 21, 2014

Spot Pond with Crawfish

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Hit Spot Pond for a few hours in the afternoon. Walked down the 93 side across from Straw Point and fished with a black senko and a small crawfish on ...

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Spot Pond 6/10 Fishing Report Jun 10, 2011

Spot Pond 6/10

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Soloed for an hour or two then met up with Bassmonkey21 and Hersey617. ...

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Spot Pond is the place to be! 5-11-11 Fishing Report May 11, 2011

Spot Pond is the place to be! 5-11-11

Spot Pond, stoneham -

Day started extremely slow. Fished by turtle rock, couldn't get a fish to save my life. Then I was heading to Straw point, met up with my buddy La...

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Baits and Tackle used near Stoneham

Check Prices

  • I USE ORANGE SPINNER
  • bomber shad 6-8 feet
    5 in senks
    lake fork magic shad
  • hotdoggin on a bobber with some baconnn $$$
  • 1lb 13oz on a creature bait on a jig head
    2-1/4lber on a Squarebill
  • Gulp crappie nibbles
  • Rage Trout Swimbait
  • Pop-R
  • Strike King lipless crank bait
  • Tube
  • skippyfish swimbait (4", weightless)

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • 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.
  • Seaworms on a custom flounder rig
  • Seaworms on a Flounder Rig got
    one at 1lb 5oz, two between 1-1/4lb - 1 lb, and one 11" short
  • SEAWORMS
  • Live eels
  • Sea worm
  • Live mackerel
  • live mackerel
  • Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.

Creature Check Prices

  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
  • Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Tube Check Prices

  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • use small tube
  • Tube and huge sea worms
  • tube dark...
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
  • minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

  • 2lb 9oz
    1-1/2lbs
    3-3/4lbs
  • A Couple 2-1/4lbers
    Ten 2lbers
    A Couple 1-3/4lbers
    The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
  • 1st was 3lb 6oz
    2nd was about 1lb
  • 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
    2nd was 15in
  • Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
  • 1st was 1lb 4oz
    2nd was 10in
  • 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • One 2lber
    Two 1-3/4lbers
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
  • 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
  • Zara spook and jitterbug
  • 3/8 oz Hulla Popper
  • Jitterbug
  • Zara Spook.
  • MS Slammer hitch
  • Hula Popper
  • Top water rappala, and a rooster tail spinner.
  • 3/8 oz. jointed, black Jitterbug. Heavy test, mono leader tied onto braid.

Lizard Check Prices

  • green w/ red fleck
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Baby bass lizard
  • Red/Red
  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
  • Senko
  • Senko.
  • 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
  • 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
  • 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • This hungry 4" Largemouth hit a 3-1/2" Jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • Green Popper Frog Fly

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White, double silver blade
  • same as before
  • 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw
  • Chartreuse spinnah
  • White spinnerbait
  • Chartruese w/Red Spinnerbait
  • Brown/Gold w/Red
  • White spinner bait, willow leaf style blades. Thrown into herring pods on lower lake
  • 3/8 oz. Booyah Counter Strike Spinnerbait (gold, willow leaf, white/chartreause).

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Jerkbait
    1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
    2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
    3rd was 8in
  • Rapala Original Silver
  • Jerkbait
  • Rapala F05 BCF
    Rebel minnow F07 Silver
  • Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
  • rapala
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Trolling main channel
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
    Lunker on a red inline spinner
  • rooster tail
  • 1st. 5in
    2nd. 10in 8oz
  • 1st. 7in
    2nd. 7 3/4in
  • 1st. 12in 12oz
    2nd. 11.5in 10oz
    3rd. 11.5in 9oz
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 4" and 5" Sunfish
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
    Girlfriend caught her White Perch on a Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Purpledescent
  • 1st. 9in
    2nd. 8in
    3rd. 4in

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Sabiki rig, white
  • shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • Pumpkin Senko 5" on a texas rig.
  • 5" Senko baby bass - wacky - unweighted - red hook
  • Red zoom worm with green flecks, white spinnerbait, 1/8 oz.
  • 1st was 12" 3-4lb
    2nd was 13" 14oz
  • Senko
    1st Bass was 11"
    2nd Bass was 16-1/2" 2lbs
  • 4inch black senko wacky rigged.
  • 1lber, and 1/2lber
  • Four in the 10-11 inch range
  • Senko
  • Wacky
    1st was 1-1/4lbs
    2nd was 1-1/8lbs
    3rd was 10"
    4th was 15" 1-3/4lbs

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • 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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot

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

  • 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
  • Drop Shot
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    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
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Dropshot
  • .

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.

Craw Check Prices

  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • crawdads and soft frogs

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster tail
  • Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait
  • Top water; jointed black jitterbug.
  • Rooster Tail - My buddy caught a small Large Mouth and a sunfish on a flaoting minnow
  • 4" black and blue yum dinger
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    Rapala F-5 Original
  • Rapala F-7 Original Silver
  • Green bigfoot scum frog
    Tan/brown Koppers hollow body frog
    Watermelonseed 5" Zoom super fluke
    Green pumpkin booyah boo jig w/ Rage craw trailer green pumpkin
    bluegill 3/8 oz. chatterbait w/ watermelon red flake swimmin' fluke
  • Rapala F-5 Original

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Ice Jig
  • 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
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Squarebill
  • Strike King bright yellow minnow
  • Strike King Minnow in bright yellow
  • Strike King Pro Series 1
  • smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
  • Rapala Original F-9 - Minnow
  • Rapala Original F-7 - Bleeding Shad
  • Rapala Original Floating Minnow
  • reaction strike jerk in perch
  • Rat-l-trap

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 1st was 1lb 6oz
    2nd was 1-1/4lb
    3rd was 1-3/4lb
  • All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig

    1st was 2lb 10oz
    2nd was 1lb 7oz
    3rd was 1lb
  • Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
  • same jig as before
  • Boag Hog Brush Jig
  • And Senko
    Two 1lber, and 1lb 6oz
  • 3/8 Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill, with Green Pumpkin Rage Tail chunk.
  • JIG N PIG
    4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
    WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
  • 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
  • Lake fork magic shad
  • yamamoto swimsenko
  • Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • Berkeley GULP!

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger
  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
  • gold little cleo
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • 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
  • rattler
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • Night crawlers with either a bobber or weights.
  • Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • on tipups shallow as heck

Herring Check Prices

  • Herring Chunk
  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight
  • Clams
  • Calms
  • chunked herrin

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.
  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper Fishing
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • chartruce and whit chatter bait
  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • Daredevil
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • gub on worm hook
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • The trout tend to hang in the area I marked on the map.
  • french bread crust, sitting about 6 inches below the surface
  • Crust of french bread so it will float
  • None.
  • KVD 1.5, Senkos in black with red flake as well as shad colored.
  • Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
  • SENKO GREEN
  • Clams, dropped to the bottom. 2.5 foot leader on a baitholder hook.
  • Chunked mackerel
  • Pogy

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