Fishing near West Springfield in Hampden County, MA

3.57 Rating based on 135 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, American Shad, Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 93
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 181
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4lb 7oz near West Springfield

4lb 7oz

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4lb 2oz near West Springfield

4lb 2oz

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5lb 8oz near West Springfield

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5lb 2oz near West Springfield

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Top Fishing Spots near West Springfield

Chicopee River
Chicopee River

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5162

Van Horn Pond
Van Horn Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1320

Chapin Pond
Chapin Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2152

Buck Pond
Buck Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4756

Hampton Ponds
Hampton Ponds

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

Blunt Pond
Blunt Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1683

West Springfield Area Fish Species

Recent West Springfield Fishing Reports

the river at night Fishing Report May 13, 2011

the river at night

CT River -

My buddy monty and chris catching some stripers in mass. Using blood worms...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Smokecity Lunker Tours 6lb 14oz Monster Fishing Report May 30, 2015

Smokecity Lunker Tours 6lb 14oz Monster

mixed ponds -

Whats up boys its been a long winter and im sure everyone is enjoying their time on the water.The last 2 weeks water temps have changed by 20 degrees ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Cats Fishing Report Aug 16, 2009

Cats

CT River -

Caught 5 cats, all between 8-12 lbs using chicken liver...from 10PM - 1am
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Avg. Rating: 5
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Ct River baby!!!!!!! Fishing Report May 02, 2016

Ct River baby!!!!!!!

Ct River -

Shad and Carp and Stripers o my

o yeah...

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Larry Fishing Report Jul 13, 2010

Larry

Ct river Longmeadow Ma -

Finally caught my first decent sized bass. Caught with spook on ct river between 2-3 lbs...

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Chicopee river Fishing Report Mar 31, 2013

Chicopee river

Chicopee,ma -

Fishing on kayak ...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Baits and Tackle used near West Springfield

Check Prices

  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • mixed color senkos
  • Flies and Jigs
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • rubber grub
  • minnows, jig
  • if you know stripers then you should know what bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Nightcrallers & worms
  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Meal worm
    Lures
    Powerbait
  • They are biting sand worms and blood worms

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.
  • large shinners with a bobber

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Popper, Color Gold and black
  • Rubber frog

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Rubber Frogs with swim legs, lots of noise and action of the top of the water

Streamer Check Prices

  • Black Baed Haed Wooly Bugger

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 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
  • White and Red stick bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • meppes
  • Rooster Tail
  • rooster tail
  • black Rooster tail
  • little rooster
  • blue fox
  • white tailed

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • test
  • Bait Details

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

  • senko
  • June Bug colored zoom worms
  • Junebug Zoom worm
  • Watermelon Plum zoom finesse worm 6"
  • black senko
  • 3 on Zoom Trick Worm
    Color: South Africa special
    1 on Live Target Frog
    Color: Bull Frog
  • Yamamotos Senko...green
    no luck on spinners and cranks
  • I just used pumpkin seed green worms here all day and got tons of hits.
  • yum dinger watermelon
  • watermelon yum dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senco stretch 40
  • jig heads / swim tails
  • SALTSHAKER WITH JIG HEAD
  • jig heads and swim baits

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
  • litle plastic minnows

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • ratl trap
  • bbz-1 shad blue back herring color

Crankbait Check Prices

  • yellow dancin eel
  • nofish but I know they're here sometimes
  • spinner bait
    yamos
    crankbaits
  • just use a cheap 2.99 crankbait with a white belly I caught other fish on my new pop r
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • booya crankbaits brown and green

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white and blue,fishing mud line
  • Used Jigs, and yam's missed a lot of fish and caught a lot.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white paddle tail
  • yellow
  • weighted Sluggo

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Trout worn with a single split shop weight
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • Brother in Law got only bite - but did land the fish
  • caught a 3.1/2lb'er on an inch of worm.
  • ok i have caught fish here with everything lures, shiners, night crawlers and i have even caught LMB with sunfish that i had caught on the worm initially. In fact when i realized that a huge bass was hitting my sunfish and the hook was too small to catch it, i rigged a bigger hook threw the fish back out and pulled in a 5-7lb bass. It was the 5th fat bass for summer 2009
  • Nothing on plastic but they where all takin the worms!

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

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

Other Check Prices

  • Chicken Liver
  • Garlic
    Garlic with Corn
  • Corn and Garlic
  • rainbow or green powerbait
  • Powerbait rainbow
  • 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
  • Candy
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  • Rainbow Powerbait
  • Chartreuse Extra Scent power bait, or Natural color Extra Scent power bait

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