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MASSWILDLIFE'S
BEST BETS FOR BASS
Largemouth, smallmouth & calico bass are found in the majority of freshwater habitats in Massachusetts, but these waters, based on fisheries sampling and angler reports, offer some of the very best bass fishing opportunities.

 

Western District LARGEMOUTH BASS
Cheshire Cheshire Reservoir
Hinsdale Ashmere Lake
Lee Goose Pond, Laurel Lake
Monterey Benedict Pond, Lake Buel, Lake Garfield
Pittsfield Onota Lake, Pontoosuc Lake
Sheffield Three Mile Pond
Western District SMALLMOUTH BASS
Becket Center Pond, Greenwater Pond
Huntington Highland Lake
Hancock Norwich Lake
Lee Goose Pond
Monterey Garfield Lake
Rowe Sherman Reservoir
Conn. Valley District LARGEMOUTH BASS
Belchertown Quabbin Reservoir
  SMALLMOUTH BASS
Belchertown, New Salem Quabbin Reservoir
  CALICO BASS
Belchertown, New Salem Quabbin Reservoir
Northeast District LARGEMOUTH BASS PONDS
Amesbury Gardner Lake
Ashland Ashland Reservoir
Billerica Nutting's Pond
Boston Jamaica Pond
Chelmsford Crystal Lake (Newfield Pond)
Dunstable Massapoag Lake
Framingham Farm Pond, Lake Cochituate (North, Middle, South)
Groton Baddacook Pond, Knops Pond
Hamilton Chebacco Lake
Hopkinton North Pond, Whitehall Lake
Haverhill Saltonstall Lake
Hudson Fort Meadow Pond
Littleton Spectacle Pond
Methuen Forest Lake
Milford North Pond
Natick Lake Cochituate (North, Middle, South), Dug Pond
Needham Cutler Pond
Randolph Ponkapoag Pond
Tyngsboro Althea Pond, Flint Pond
Wakefield Quannapowitt Lake
Wayland Lake Cochituate (North, Middle, South)
Westford Forge Pond
West Boxford Stiles Pond
Wrentham Lake Pearl
Northeast District SMALLMOUTH BASS PONDS
Concord Walden Pond, White's Pond
Wrentham Archer Lake
Northeast District LARGEMOUTH BASS RIVERS
Ayer, Groton, Pepperell Nashua River (limit fish consumption)
Boston, Dedham, Dover, Millis, Natick, Needham, Sherborn, Waltham Charles River
Bedford, Billerica Concord River
Byfield, Georgetown, W. Newbury Parker River
Danvers, Hopkinton, Ipswich, Middleton, Peabody, Topsfield Ipswich River
Framingham Sudbury River
Hudson, Stow Assabet River
Northeast District SMALLMOUTH BASS RIVERS
Chelmsford, Lawrence, Lowell, Tyngsboro Merrimack River
Southeast District LARGEMOUTH BASS PONDS
Acushnet New Bedford Reservoir
Bridgewater Nippenicket Lake
Carver Sampson's Pond
Fall River Cook's Pond, South Watuppa Pond
Halifax, Hanson Monponsett Lakes
Lakeville Long Pond
Norton Norton Reservoir
Rochester Snipatuit Pond
Sandwich Lawrence Pond
Taunton Sabbatica Lake
Wareham Mill Pond
Southeast District SMALLMOUTH BASS PONDS
Barnstable Hamblin Pond
Bourne, Plymouth Great Herring Pond
Brewster Cliff Pond
Fall River South Watuppa Reservoir
Falmouth Ashumet Pond, Coonamesset Pond
Harwich Long Pond
Mashpee John's Pond, Mashpee-Wakeby Pond
Sandwich Peter's Pond
Central District LARGEMOUTH BASS PONDS
Brookfield Quaboag Pond, South Pond
Charlton Buffumville Reservoir
Douglas, Sutton Manchaug Pond
Lancaster Fort Pond
Millbury, Sutton Singletary Lake
Rutland Demond Pond, Long Pond
Sturbridge East Brimfield Reservoir
Westboro Chauncy Lake, A-1 Site
Central District SMALLMOUTH BASS PONDS
Boylston Wachusett Reservoir
Millbury, Sutton Singletary Lake
Webster Webster Lake


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Last Updated: March 25, 2002


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