Hello,

    I recently moved to western MA just outside of Sturbridge and was looking for a place to do some shore fishing.  I don't have a boat yet and see that most of the lakes/ponds require a boat.  Where is a decent place to drop a line and sit back and do some fishing?

Use Google Earth to locate smaller ponds within 15 minutes of your house. Most of smaller fisherys won't allow boats.

Also call your local fish and game guys and division of wildlife as well.  With those three sources you should have plenty of fishing ahead of you.