Stump Pond, Westborough, MA Fishing Report

Stump Pond

Finally made it out to this place after hearing so many good things about it. Cant believe it took me this long to get out there! Place definitely lived up to its reputation as being one of the most unique, productive, and challenging Largemouth fisheries in the state.

The day started like this: my buddy Matt called me yesterday morning and told me he wanted to hit up brookline res today and then stump tomorrow. I said that I was busy tomorrow, so today would be a much better day for me to take a trip out to stump so he decided to blow off his other plans and we hopped in the car later that afternoon en route to A 1.

Had to stop by Dick's in Natick to get a new rod because my previous one (6' ugly) bit it. I upgraded to the 6.5' and bought some senkos and we were back on the road again.

I was a little apprehensive as to how we were going to get in to this place because I kept hearing that the ramp was closed, but someone had tipped me off on another way to sneak a canoe in. I scoped it on google maps and it looked promising so sure enough it worked out. Got there around 4:45. We had a bit of a walk, but it was not too bad really. The place where we put it was unbelievably weedy and shallow so we had to heave a little bit and then paddle through the weeds. The pond is aptly named; stumps and trees everywhere, some sticking out of the water, some just barely submerged so you dont notice until you're literally right on top of them. Anyway, absolutely perfect bass habitat. Cover and structure everywhere!

I connected with my first LMB about ten or fifteen minutes in. A fat little pounder hanging out on the edge of the shallows about 20 yds from shore. We continued moving up the shoreline where I connected with three more Largemouth and Matt finally got his first fish of the day. All were 1-1.5 lbs. I also had something bite my worm in half, maybe a pike I thought. At that point the water was glass. Fish were jumping everywhere and I saw some HUGE ones surfacing out in the middle, so we cautiously paddled our way out there where we had the best double hook up I have ever had. Dual 2.5 pounders! Fifteen minutes later I connected with the last and biggest fish of the trip: a solid 3 pounds. Matt fished a jitter for a little while after that, but it was gettin real dark so we had to call it quits.

So we got 8 fish in a little over 2 hours, almost all were over 1 pound. Cant wait to hit this place up again!

• Added By: gcbass on 09/18/11 10:42 AM
• Location: Stump Pond, Westborough, MA
• Report Date: 9/17/2011
• # of Hotspots: 1
• # of Photos: 5
• # of Fish Caught: 8
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