Fishing near West Boylston in Worcester County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Bluegill
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Timmie (My grandson) near West Boylston

Timmie (My grandson)

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Gates Cove near West Boylston

Gates Cove

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Bird at Whachusett Reservoir near West Boylston

Bird at Whachusett Reservoir

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Top Fishing Spots near West Boylston

Wachusett Reservoir
Wachusett Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 5
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Quinapoxet River
Quinapoxet River

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Blackstone River
Blackstone River

Avg. Rating: 4.143
# Reviews: 7
Views: 9386

West Waushaccum Pond
West Waushaccum Pond

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East Waushaccum Pond
East Waushaccum Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2757

Indian Lake
Indian Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
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West Boylston Area Fish Species

Recent West Boylston Fishing Reports

Wachusett Reservoir Fishing Report Apr 11, 2009

Wachusett Reservoir

Wachusett Reservoir -

Went to Gates Cove with my grandson. What a great fealing on the ride down. Didn't catch anything but we had a great time....

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Wachusett Res first light 11-3-13 Fishing Report Nov 05, 2013

Wachusett Res first light 11-3-13

Wachusett Reservoir -

Me and a couple of friends decided to hit Gates cove at Wachusett for some early morning lake trout fishing. ...

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Wachusett Salmon & Trout Fishing Report Nov 18, 2013

Wachusett Salmon & Trout

Wachusett Res. -

Sean and I decided to give bass fishing a break this weekend. Instead we traded our swimbait gear in for some of the smallest and lightest gear we own...

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Two gold pins! (Full detail story) Fishing Report Jul 09, 2014

Two gold pins! (Full detail story)

Wachusett Res -

I got home after my graduate for Bachelor degree. Next day, I went to CHU because I promised myself that I will going there often to catch many differ...

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Closing Weekend Fishing Report Nov 27, 2012

Closing Weekend

Wachusett Res -

Thursday Turkey Shoot - See Muskiebigfish's trip posted - Good times, lots of bites, but no fish.

Friday - Hit Scar Hill solo style. Water ...

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Wachusett Reservoir Smallie Roundup Fishing Report Jul 10, 2016

Wachusett Reservoir Smallie Roundup

Wachusett Reservoir -

I hit Gate 14 at Scar Hill Road late afternoon yesterday in the cool, overcast weather with some sporadic light showers, hoping it would have the smal...

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Baits and Tackle used near West Boylston

Check Prices

  • Both Lakers came from the same spot. PM me if you want details. In any case, they didn't seem to be hitting to far out from shore, maybe 20 yards or so?
  • weighted tube
    Texas rigged craw
    spook
    wacky
  • 3/4 Oz Blue and Silver Kastmaster
  • BHB Jigs
    Senko
    Kivas
    Yellow candy
    Shinners
  • 3/4 Ounce Blue and Silver Kastmaster
  • Big ass shiners
  • Shinners

    Big Ones
  • big dead shiners, kayem red's hot dogs
  • Goliath size perch
  • Corn lots of it

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters
  • Big Kiva
  • White suckers
  • Shinners
  • Yellow Perch
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Big Shinner
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • 5 inch yellow perch

Tube Check Prices

  • Chartreuse pepper flack tube
  • june bug tubes
  • purple smoke tube
    salt and pepper flake tube
    june bug tube
  • salt and pepper purple flake tube
  • June Bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube
  • june bug tube
  • minitube flourescent
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms

Creature Check Prices

  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • Carolina Rig
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Minnow Check Prices

  • fish med-heavy shiners on bottom, rig with 1/2oz non-lead egg sinker, 18" fluorocarbon leader to size 2-4 hook.
  • Not sure exactly what kind of bait fish it was, since I found it wriggling at the water's edge - my guess is a shiner or shad.
  • Kivas
    Shinners
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • Medium shiner
  • Large minnow with a rattling bobber, size 1 hook
  • large shiners on trokar hooks
  • live bait old school
  • Chung's Best
  • Small
    Medium
    Big Dead Pondies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Zara Spook Baby Bass
  • see Damon for detailz
    Couldn't tell ya -Yoda tied everything up this day
  • Zmkanpop frog elite w/ chart belly rigged w/ a 4/0 Gami
  • Jitterbug
  • Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo
  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
  • Skitter Pop
    Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
  • Jitter Bug
  • Rebel Popper - Perch
  • Black jitter bug.

Lizard Check Prices

  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
  • 4.5in Slug-go
  • 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
  • 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
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Alewife
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • 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.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Chartreuse and white Z-man chatter bait
  • Yellow green spinnerbaits
  • Chartreuse and white Z-Man Chatter Bait
  • Fast retrieve
  • red
  • Spinner green bleeder
  • Green Bleeder
  • Chatruse Spinner Double Leaf
  • white and red tandem colorado
    long tail
  • Spinner white/green...silver/gold blades

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
    1lber on Frog at Heard
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • 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.
  • Live target frogs. Bass pro enticed football jig with an elite swim'n'chunk on the hook

Streamer Check Prices

  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • X-Rap
  • Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
  • 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
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 13in 1lb
    2nd was 12in 11oz
    3rd was 11.5in 10oz
  • Rapala, golden, 4" sinking
  • Jerk Bait
  • Jerk Bait
    1st Calico was 8in
    2nd was 10in
    3rd was 9in
  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Blue Fox Inline Minow
  • firetiger mepps aglia with a red treble hook and custom feather teaser tied on by yours truly
  • Silver / Black Roostertail
  • 5in and 9in Bass
  • All 4 and 5 inch Bass
  • 1/8 Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 15.5in
    2. 13in 1lb
  • 1/8in Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Weedless "Pumkin" Yamamoto
    spinning rig. . .Thanks Bri' !
  • Senko, Watermelon, Wacky-rigged
  • Senko, Watermelon, Weedless-rigged
  • Gary Yamamoto™®
    5inch Watermelon/Lemon
    The lighting changes ALOT from summer to Autumn--So I tried something new
  • Green Bass Pro Tournament Series worm with red and blue flakes
  • 7 " red shad powerbait
  • Zoom Trick worm
    Color: South Africa Special
  • I worked the western shoreline for awhile, throwing around my usual rig. After feeling a few hit and runs, I eventually hooked up on a bass...that couldn't have weighed more than half a pound.
  • Shakey Head
  • Wacky rigged senos in 5 inch lenght BkBl + GrPumpkin

    Bites only after it bottoms out, or popped off bottom after sitting 20-30 seconds.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • Senkos Black with Flakes

    Kivas the little pretty ones
    hahahahahah
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • xps swimbait
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Spider Grubs, Crankbait, Jig, Senko, Spinnerbait.
    A couple at 11-1/2", most between 10"-11"
  • They hit everything! Jigs, Spinnerbait, Senko, Spider Grub, Crankbaits
  • 1-1/4lber was my best
    bunch of 1lbers and shorts
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller
  • Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
    The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
  • All between 3/4lb and 1-1/4lbs
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
  • 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
    lots of 1lbers
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Craw Check Prices

  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • yamamoto watermelon 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.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rooster tail
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Rooster Tail
  • DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
  • 1 on Rooster Tail
    1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
  • 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
    4 on Rooster Tail
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
    1 on Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

  • surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...
  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz
  • jig n pig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Lipless Crankbait and a Plastic Swimbait
  • KVD 1.5 and 2.5
  • kvd 2.5/d-bomb missle baits
  • 1 on a shinner 1 on a senko and the big guy on a huge 7 inch crank bait while trolling
  • rapala
  • perch rapala - was surprised to get nothing on a soft worm.
  • rapal
  • Baitball. Live target
  • Bait ball. From live target
  • KVD Rattling Square Bill

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • brown
  • black and blue, with a blue craw trailer
  • Crawfish style.
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • pumpkin
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • rattle jig with uncle josh pork trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz
  • 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!

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Plain white Swim bait Plastic.
  • 6" berkley havoc sick fish clear natural bream color and painted with garlic cented chartreuse dip n glo to resemble yellow perch.
  • bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
  • Reaction Innovations
    Little Dipper
    Dirty Sanchez
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • texas rigged senko
  • 4"senko
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
  • Frog = 1 lil bump
    White Shad = 2 LMB
  • 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White wooly bugger
  • White Wooly bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 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!
  • silver spoon
  • 3/4oz. Silver kastmaster

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • just a small piece
  • Nightcrawlers and troutworms
  • 10-12 hook, half way threaded, dark part of the night crawler
  • plastic worms, live worms, crank bait, spinners
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • 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.
  • rattler

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged
  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • Dropshotting
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

  • white rooster tail

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

  • Corn and lots of it
  • Corn Creamy and Whole Kernel

    15lb Flouro Leader 2ft long
    60lb Yellow Power Pro
    3/0 short shank red hook
  • Creamy Corn
    Whole Kernel
  • Green Power Bait
  • Corn Corn Corn Corn
  • Cheapest bait on the planet
  • Corn
    Lots of it
  • White Bread
  • 1/4 oz white willow leaf spinnerbait 4 Bass
    1/16 oz black and goldflake sluggo 2 Bass (larger)
  • Big
    Dead
    Golden's

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