Fishing near Wilbraham in Hampden County, MA

3.66 Rating based on 141 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, American Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 95
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 209
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4lb5oz near Wilbraham

4lb5oz

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Larry comes home near Wilbraham

Larry comes home

Tried Bass pond but no takers so on way out tried Quarry pond and fish on. Caught 4lber on one side and 2 lb on other side. never thought I'd get one this large in this little pond
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Top Fishing Spots near Wilbraham

Nine Mile Pond
Nine Mile Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Sawmill Pond
Sawmill Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1496

Pulpit Rock Pond
Pulpit Rock Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2377

Loon Pond (springfield)
Loon Pond (springfield)

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3442

Red Bridge Pool
Red Bridge Pool

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3132

Five Mile Pond
Five Mile Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.6
# Reviews: 5
Views: 4218

Wilbraham Area Fish Species

Recent Wilbraham Fishing Reports

Christmas bass? Fishing Report Dec 24, 2012

Christmas bass?

Seeing as tomorrow is my holiday on, I decided to head out on the kayak today to my local favorite. I brought my cranking rod and my trout powerbait ...

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Panfish Trip to Nine Mile Pond Fishing Report Jul 19, 2011

Panfish Trip to Nine Mile Pond

Nine Mile Pond, MA -

I got on the water at 6:30pm and got back into my truck at 7:45pm. I caught somewhere between 20 and 30 panfish. I know it was more than 20 but not qu...

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Case of dink-itis Fishing Report Oct 03, 2012

Case of dink-itis

Wilbraham, MA -

With finally finishing school, getting a job and such, I only work 3 days and have 4 off which is nice for fishing. So I was able to get out today on...

Avg. Rating: 5
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River Smallies Fishing Report Sep 07, 2010

River Smallies

Chicopee River -

Fished the Chicopee River. Followed a path under the Ludlow bridge right by the dam and fished where the waterfall emptied into a pool and the river ...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Larry comes home Fishing Report Sep 14, 2010

Larry comes home

Quarry pond Spfld,Ma -

Finally got my Larry in a place i least expected. ...

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Slow Fishing Report Jun 01, 2010

Slow

Ludlow Ma -

Went to Haviland pond to try my luck at tiger trout. Was a slow evening.Almost ready to give up and caught a rainbow. Guess it wasn't a total loss...

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Baits and Tackle used near Wilbraham

Check Prices

  • Flies and Jigs
  • Spro Bronzeye in Rainforest Black
  • berkley power bait trout nugget
  • Goldfish spoon,the gold one,quarter ounce,thanks Don!
  • 1/4 oz carolina lizard
  • shiners off tip-ups and jigging rods.
  • Chartreuse spinner bait
  • 5 Keepers:
    2-3/4lbs, Two 2lbers, and Two 1-1/4lbers

    2 shorts
  • 2 Keepers, 2 Shorts
  • Green pumpkin and watermelon straight tail worms.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • eel
  • They bite sand-worm and night crawlers
  • Big shiners
  • Live Carwfish
  • Nightcrallers & 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.
  • 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.
  • Med Shiners
    Wish we had gotten some larger ones
  • Minnow. Just below ice and a foot off bottom
  • large shinners with a bobber
  • tip ups

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Heddon Tiny Torpedo -- Baby Bass

  • Popper
  • Lunker city Salad Spoon
  • Live Target Brown Mouse
  • Z-Man Hard Legs Frog
  • Popper, Color Gold and black

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

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • Bait Details
  • test

Nymph Check Prices

  • PT

Worm Check Prices

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

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Surprised I only got one today!
  • Two 3/4lbers, and 4 shorts
  • 1-1/4lber and some 1lbers

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 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
  • yellow dancin eel
  • Booyah tiger
  • hit it after 3 cranks of the reel
  • booya crankbaits brown and green
  • X-rap for this fish, but have had grea luck with a jig and grub

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 4-1/4lb on a jig
    3-3/4lb and 1lb 15oz on senko
    two 1lbers on buzzbait
  • All on a swimjig

    My 9.75lb Limit was:
    2lbs 11oz
    2lbs 2oz
    2lbs 1oz
    1lb 8oz
    1lb 6oz

    5 more in the 1-1/4lb to 3/4lb range
  • white and blue,fishing mud line

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Reaction Innovations Soft swimbait
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos
  • white paddle tail
  • yellow

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
  • just night crawlers on small hooks
  • little peices on decent sized hooks with a foot lead.
  • peice of nightcrawler on a hook
  • 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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • red craw by bill lewis

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Zara Spook

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Mepps, Rooster Tails or a gold fish

Panfish Jig Check Prices

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

Other Check Prices

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