Fishing near Chatham in Columbia County, NY

3.85 Rating based on 31 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Chain Pickerel, Pumpkinseed, Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brown Trout, Northern Pike
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 36
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 9
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Chatham Fishing Photos

Yellow Perch near Chatham

Yellow Perch

in about 20-25ft of water. 30-40ft from shore. Outskirts of weedbed.
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Rainbow near Chatham

Rainbow

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Little Brown near Chatham

Little Brown

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Bend lip steelhead near Chatham

Bend lip steelhead

Bend lip on steelhead caught by barbie rod!!!
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Top Fishing Spots near Chatham

Roeliff Jansen Kill
Roeliff Jansen Kill

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Taghkanic Creek
Taghkanic Creek

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Queechy Lake
Queechy Lake

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Stony Kill
Stony Kill

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Hollow Brook
Hollow Brook

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Roeliff-Jansen Kill
Roeliff-Jansen Kill

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Chatham Area Fish Species

Recent Chatham Fishing Reports

Water Temp, No Rod Holders 1 Fish Fishing Report Aug 08, 2011

Water Temp, No Rod Holders 1 Fish

Richmond Pond, MA -

8/7/11 Went out on Richmond Pond at around 5:00 pm on sunday. After getting out on the deep end of the pond the water temp read at 80 degrees. So ob...

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Winter Break Ice Fishing Fishing Report Jul 12, 2019

Winter Break Ice Fishing

Western Massachusetts -

During my short winter break, myself and my Dad set up a trip to go ice fishing with Charter the Berkshires. On this occasion, we booked a private cha...

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New Pond New Fish 8/20 Fishing Report Aug 23, 2011

New Pond New Fish 8/20

Woods Pond -

Went out to Woods Pond around 3:30pm on Saturday. Nice weather round 75 or so. Got down to where I ice fish this pond to find Lilly pads small anima...

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Big Carp Cove Fishing Report Jun 30, 2011

Big Carp Cove

Housatonic River -

Lots of big carp...

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Benedict Pond Fishing Report Oct 10, 2007

Benedict Pond

Beartown state forest -

Camped & fished at Benedict Pond in Beartown State Forest (Monterey, MA) in mid August. My daughter caught countless sunfish and a couple yellow ...

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Late report - Pike on the river ...  Fishing Report Nov 02, 2010

Late report - Pike on the river ...

Housatonic river @ Sheffield covered bridge -

Sorry for the late report ... way to much on the plate !! So - took a four days in Sept. to do some exploring of new water in western Ma. with my Brot...

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Baits and Tackle used near Chatham

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

Minnow Check Prices

  • Tip ups baited with shiners
  • Medium to large minnows on a tip up
  • Large Shiner on a tip up.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • black buzz bait

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • About 5 inch golden shiner thin profile top-water shallow diver lure ...

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Silver blades, Red/white tail
  • silver blade, red/black tail
  • Silver, black/red tail
  • Gold blade, Yellow n red Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 4 inch CobraBaits padle tail worm and 4 inch Gary Yamamoto strech 40 worm in green pumpkin.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Red with black stripes/spots. dives 10-12ft. Small rattle noise.

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