Fishing near Newton, Massachusetts

You will find Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The fishing starts where the built-up part ends. In order of distance: Bulloughs Pond barely 0.3 miles, Crystal Lake barely 0.8 miles to the south-east, Chandler Pond barely 2.3 miles with Longfellow Pond barely 2.9 miles to the south-west. Chandler Pond is small enough to walk round and read in a single session. Winter closes the open water down. Anglers here count the season from the thaw, not from January. These are still water, plain and simple. Anything that breaks the bottom is worth a cast. The nearest of them, Bulloughs Pond, covers about 7 acres. Bulloughs Pond is the easiest to reach with a car. On climate averages, local water clears around late March. Open records for Middlesex County list bluegill, pumpkinseed, chain pickerel and yellow perch. If Bulloughs Pond is busy, everything else on this list is quieter....