The Sudbury Reservoir is a DCR public water supply with shore-only access, holding largemouth bass, pickerel and pike. Just as notable are the slow, weedy rivers of the SuAsCo watershed it belongs to, the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord, which are classic northern pike and largemouth water.
The water
The reservoir offers bank fishing over its coves and drop-offs. The rivers are slow, warm and weedy, ideal ambush habitat for pike and largemouth around the vegetation, wood and backwaters.
How to fish it
On the reservoir, work the shoreline with stick worms and spinnerbaits. On the rivers, throw big swimbaits, spinnerbaits and spoons on a wire leader for pike around the weeds and wood, a kayak or small boat is the ideal way to fish the slow current.
Tip The SuAsCo rivers are pike water, so bring the wire. Slow, weedy stretches with wood and backwaters are ambush country, and a big bait worked along the vegetation on a wire leader is how you tangle with a river pike.