Great Herring Pond Fishing Spot
- County: Plymouth - Plymouth MA.
- Acreage: 376
- Public Fishing: Yes
- Mean Depth: 20'
- Max Depth: 42'
- Last Modified By: kizel13 on 04/16/13 08:48 AM
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Just redid this whole "location" who ever had done it before had enter info for a Different pond
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Great Smallmouth fishing here.
There are some great rock points in this place.
Every time I go here it is windy,you get blown around good in a small boat.
Great Herring Pond Baits and Tackle
Live Baits Check Prices
- squid/ clam/ mackerel typically
- Paul had a 3.90lb, 2-3/4lber, 2lber, 1-3/4lber, and two 1lbers
I had a 1-1/2lber, and a 1lber - 3 shorts
- 3 healthy Pickerel
- My big fish was 2.03lbs, also a 1-1/4lber, and a 1lber
- Swimbait, Spinnerbait, Shakey Head.
Other Check Prices
- yellow and Pink Power Bait caught fish with Yellow oin a #12 treble hook being the best.
Stick Bait Check Prices
- Ima Flit 100 Chartreuse Shad
Lipless Bait Check Prices
Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices
- Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2.
- Mepps Aguila gold inline spinner #2
In-Line Spinner Check Prices
- Trolling or tossing in-line spinners. Powerbait mello's
- 1/6oz Rooster Tail
Hard Swimbait Check Prices
- yo-zuri crystal minnow
- Rapala Baby Bass Jointed swimbait
Worm Check Prices
- Used a watermelon/gold fleck senko worm, rooster tail, and popper
Soft Swimbait Check Prices
- Northland minnow
Minnow Check Prices
- Shiner live lining.
- Shiners, 3-4 inch
- shiners hooked behind the dorsal fin with a #2 circle hook on about 30in. leader of 20# flurocarbon.
- Live minnow under a float
Great Herring Pond Description
Great Herring Pond is a 376-acre natural warmwater pond with an average depth of 20 feet and a maximum depth of 42 feet. The pond, historically also known as Lake Manomet, is named from its large size and its herring run. Its outlet is the Herring River, formerly known as Monument River, which used to flow into Buzzards Bay. This river now enters the Cape Cod Canal at the Bournedale Herring Run. The ponds water supply is an inlet from Little Herring Pond, cranberry bogs and groundwater. Water color is generally clear and transparency is about 8 feet. Due its windswept nature, the pond is unstratified during the summer months. The ponds 5.3 miles of shoreline is moderately developed with houses, roads, cranberry bogs and a summer camp (Camp Bournedale). The bottom is primarily sand and rubble with mud in deeper and more sheltered areas.
Public access to Great Herring Pond is a state Office of Fishing and Boating Access Ramp located in the southern end of the pond. To get to the ramp from the Cape Cod Canal, take Herring Pond Road north from Route 6, and take a left on Little Sandy Pond Road. The access will be visible immediately to your right. From Route 3 South, take Exit 2, then left onto Herring Pond Road heading south. At the southern end of the pond take a right on Little Sandy Pond Road. The boat ramp is unimproved and enters shallow water and is therefore best suited for canoes, inflatables and other shallow-draft, hand-carried craft. Larger boats of shallow draft can be launched with a four-wheel drive vehicle. Parking spaces are available for about six vehicles.
In May 2001 a fish survey found abundant smallmouth bass and three additional species: largemouth bass, pumpkinseed and tesselated darter. Also, an occasional walleye is also reported. Alewife and blueback herring are abundant in the pond from late spring through fall.
Great Herring Pond offers good smallmouth bass and white perch fishing. Try off the points on the eastern shore and also the two sunken islands near the center of the pond. Abundant forage from the Bournedale herring run translates into good growth rates for gamefish and panfish but may make the gamefish a little
harder to catch during the summer months when schools of young-of-year herring are readily available