Fishing near Sudbury in Middlesex County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill, Mirror Carp
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Weight near Sudbury

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Biggest pickerel i've ever caught! Couldn't get a length though so this was the best i could do, especially since the hook helps to get the lure out.
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Okay Picture near Sudbury

Okay Picture

This was the best picture I could get to show it's size. As you can see it was very fat.
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Bass near Sudbury

Bass

Was small in length, but meaty must've been 1.5-2 lbs
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Pickerel  near Sudbury

Pickerel

Was a good 20 something inches, it was a good fight.
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Tiny Bass #1 near Sudbury

Tiny Bass #1

On my Stearns Mill Pond Trip
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Top Fishing Spots near Sudbury

Willis Pond
Willis Pond

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Puffer Pond
Puffer Pond

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White Pond
White Pond

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Heards Pond
Heards Pond

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Assabet River
Assabet River

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Lake Boon
Lake Boon

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Sudbury Area Fish Species

Recent Sudbury Fishing Reports

Nature's Christmas Present Fishing Report Dec 24, 2015

Nature's Christmas Present

Stearns Mill Pond -

Today I went fishing with my sister at this special spot... and boy was it a blast. I at first caught a small bass that was fine, but then... we went ...

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Stearns Mill Pond Trip #2 Fishing Report Sep 20, 2015

Stearns Mill Pond Trip #2

Stearns Mill Pond -

So I went again today at the same time as last time, and this time I reeled in a much bigger bass and a much bigger pickerel! Two pickerel actually, a...

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Afternoon Trip to Stearns Mill Pond Fishing Report Sep 14, 2015

Afternoon Trip to Stearns Mill Pond

Stearns Mill Pond -

Today I wanted to try a new place, so once I finished all my homework it was like 3 and I decided to go here. I know afternoon fishing isn't alway...

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Willis Lake Fishing Report Aug 24, 2008

Willis Lake

Willis Lake, Sudbury -

Fished from 2:30-5:15pm. Very windy. Caught 1 LM. @ 12"....

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KAYAK TOURNEY-SEPTEMBER 26-WILLIS POND Fishing Report Sep 26, 2015

KAYAK TOURNEY-SEPTEMBER 26-WILLIS POND

Willis Pond -

This was a new place for almost everyone who fished today. Having the most experience at this pond of anyone in the field, I, of course finished out o...

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my honey hole Fishing Report Jun 01, 2012

my honey hole

Honey Hole -

Hit up the honey hole for about 4hours. Bagged some nice fish on the double bladed buzzbait and got 4 fish on the MS Slammer....

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Baits and Tackle used near Sudbury

Check Prices

  • sweet beaver
  • GARY SENKO GREEN IN COLOR
  • My latest good luck charm the light green senko with sparkles
    gary yamo,of course
  • orage seko gary yamo
  • green senko with sparkle
  • sweet beaver again
  • drop shoting deep with 4 in senco
  • 1/4 oz jig orange and brown
    with craw trailer
  • Shakey Head,Crankbaits,spinnerbaits,top water Sprow frogs,Yamamoto Water melon candy Senko,Baby Bass Zoom Trick Worm,spoon.
  • Mostly Spider Grub and Spinner bait
    Our Limit was Chuck's 1lb 14oz, and My 3lb 5oz, 2lb 15oz, 2-1/4lber, and 1-3/4lb for 12.14lbs

    I also had two 1lbers, and a 10"er

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Large and XL Shiners
  • Large Minnows
  • worm
  • slug
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Big Shinner
  • White suckers
  • Big Kiva
  • Yellow Perch

Tube Check Prices

  • minitube flourescent
  • white tube
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • use small tube
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • tube dark...
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • June Bug tube
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • june bug tubes

Creature Check Prices

  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too

Minnow Check Prices

  • shiner
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • I found that using medium shiners with a bass hook hooked through the back of the tail worked best. The bait seems to stay much more lively that way.
  • Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.

    Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
  • Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
  • 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
  • Dead minnows
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • Kivas
    Shinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Popper
  • Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.
  • Rapala Skitter Walk - SW8 Brown Frog
  • Rappala Skitter Pop tan frog color
  • Black jitter bug.
  • Rebel Popper - Perch
  • I use frogs, senko, spinnerbaits. jigs. Just about anything will work here if u know what your doing. And have the tackle to get ém out the cabbage cuz its thick and so are they.
  • Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog
  • Skitter Pop
    Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
  • Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami

Lizard Check Prices

  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • green w/ red fleck
  • Red/Red
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • Two 1lb Pickerel
  • Sluggo
  • I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 1st was 13" 1lb
    2nd was 6"
  • 6" on inline spinner
    3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait

Fly (Other) Check Prices

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

  • 1/2 oz. chartreuse shad rocket
  • chatterbait, chartruese and lime colored 1/4 oz
  • Spinnerbait
  • My best five was about:
    2-1/2lbs
    2-1/4lbs
    Three 2lbers

    Ten more in the 1-3/4lbs to 1lb
  • 3/8 oz black with tandem willow silver blades.
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner
  • light green
  • any bright color
  • strike king with trailing hook that caught both.
  • Chartreuse spinner bait for one bass, Zoom green 6" plastic lizard for the other

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • 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.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad

Streamer Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • Jerkbait
  • Jerk Bait
  • Jerk Bait
    1st Calico was 8in
    2nd was 10in
    3rd was 9in
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • pumkin stick bait, yumm
  • Trolling main channel
  • All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • All Between 7"-4"
  • All between 7 and 8 inches
  • One 7" and one 8"
  • two 6in, and one 3" Bass
  • Two 5" Bass
  • This was the Bass I caught this morning. He hit the Mepps Agila no 4 with commendable gusto. As usual with this damn lure, it does work, but that big trailing treble sure is a snagfest.
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Mepps Black fury #3
  • rooster tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko Baby screw you haters ha ha!
  • Yum Dinger ( watermelon)
  • Senko
  • 1/2lb and 3/4lb came on the senko - 1lber and the 1lb 3oz took the inline spinner
  • Shakey Head
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with gold and black flake, Texas rigged fished drop shot.
  • Brown
  • My 3 Keepers with biggest 1-1/2
    5 Non-keepers
  • 5 inch senko
    Baby bass color
  • 5" Gary Yamamoto Pumpkin (Orange) pro senko, fished split shot.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • xps swimbait
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail
  • 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.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Shaky Head
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • Drop Shot
  • Worms, Jigs, and 1 on topwater early

    My contribution to the limit was a 3-1/2lber

    The rest were 2lbs to 3/4lbs mostly
  • Jigs & Worms
    Our Limit:
    Chuck had a 3lber
    I had a 4lber, 3-1/4lber, 3lber, and 1-3/4lber

    The rest from 1-3/4lbs to shorts
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber
  • Dropshot Sluggo
  • Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
  • 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.
  • 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead
  • 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake

Craw Check Prices

  • 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
  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
  • Yum black/blue craw

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • rapala red ratalin rap
  • Dragging a Chatterbait off a lone rock pilling.
  • Biggest fish on a Strike King Bluegill Swim Jig
    One on Sexy Shad 4S crankbait
    One on Natural Frog Zara Spook
    Four on Pearl Zoom Salty Super Fluke
  • Rooster Tail
  • Rocket Shad Spinnerbait
  • White and Blue Spinnerbait
  • Chartuesse and Green Spinnerbait
  • Rapala Original Perch #7
  • 13in on Chartuesse and Blood Spinnerbait
    8.5in on Rapala Original Perch #7
  • White/Blue Spinnerbait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • SPRO BBZ1
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • 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
  • 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
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala Original - F-9 - Minnow
  • 1 inch strike king minnow
  • same as before
  • mann's baby shallow diver chartrause perch pattern. caught all 8 on it!
  • Using a z-man chatterbait bluegill color with a swimmin super fluke as the trailer. for the other fish i used a livetarget bluegill crankbait.
  • Square Bill
  • Srike King crank bait, Sexy shad
    dives 2 to 5 feet
  • strike king sexy shad
  • looks like a perch
  • deep divers

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!
  • Black blue 1/4 oz jig. Creature bait Trailor
  • black and blue with blue craw trailer
  • SENKO(GREEN),SLUGO(BLUE)
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • Couple of 1-1/2lbers, couple of 1lber, and a 1/2lber
  • White Booyah swim jig with a White split tail trailer. Slowly crawled over rocks

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Berkeley GULP!
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Frog = 1 lil bump
    White Shad = 2 LMB
  • Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • silver spoon
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Up on the more northern end of things, we hooked into a few Landlocked salmon bites. Mostly smaller guys, but a few just keepers. Dad hit them on a variety of lures, but all mine came in on Little Cleo spoons. Another species crossed off the bucket list!
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • regular silver spoon

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Greyish, green, red face
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • Kids materials
  • night crawler on a float
  • live worm on float
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • Nightcrawlers and troutworms
  • nice large nightcrawlers

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.

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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait
  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

  • Dough Ball
  • SPINNER BAIT
  • I went with a basic powerbait rig. I Tied a barrel swivel on to the end of my 8 pound mono and added about 2.5-3 feet of 6 pound fluorocarbon leader. Just above the swivel was a small 1/8 ounce steel egg sinker. A baited powerbait hook completed the set up.
  • Just used some more powerbait. I'm thinking next time I may try some mealworms or nightcrawlers. Maybe a few small senkos as well.
  • Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait

    Two were 1-3/4lbs
    Five were 1-1/2lbs
    The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
  • Berkley PowerBait
  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
  • Got one on the mop jig just across the current. Got another on the buzzbait a little further out. Got a couple of shorts.
  • Corn, White bread, vienna sausage.
  • Sweetcorn

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