Fishing Spots Near Lexington, Ma

[BMully]

Recently, I started a job in Lexington, MA, and was curious if there were any decent fishing spots nearby to check out after work when the weather warms up. Locations with a good deal of shore access would be ideal. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Jigfishn10]

Welcome to the forums, BMully.

Old Lexington Reservoir is right on 2A, it has plenty of shoreline access and parking. I grew up and worked in Waltham and used to fish it 3-4 times a week. Get your dog walkers ready, The res is awesome for topwaters. Just before July 4th, they treat the water for weeds and in some years they overtreated it and killed too much around shoreline, so it can be a feast or famine type of pond.

It's LMB with perch, crappie, pumkinseed and crawfish for forage. I have seen some pretty big carp in there and only discovered that last fall. Snapping turtle are there and get quite large. I snagged a couple of them with my jig.

Good Luck.

[BMully]

Thanks a lot for the welcome and helpful information, Jigfishn10. I had been eyeing the Lexington Reservoir on Google Maps since it is fairly close to where I work. It's good to know that it is accessible and produces fish. That will probably be the first location I try in the area. Thanks again for the help.

[Jigfishn10]

There is parking right off of 2A and I've never had any problems leaving my truck there when I fished. During the pre-spawn you can get some really nice oinkers at the end of the beach area and along the path adjacent to the beach abutting the school. You can fish all the areas around 180* from the end of the beach with pretty good success. Once you get on the western bank, you'll see your success rate drop.

Good luck and if you need any more 411 during the season there, let me know.

[BMully]

Thanks a lot, that should give me a great starting point when I make my first trip there. I will make sure to report back with how it goes and any additional questions. Thanks for the help.