Balch Pond Fishing Spot
- County: Carroll County
- Acreage: 577
- Public Fishing: Yes
- Mean Depth: 10'
- Max Depth: 46'
- Website: http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Fishing/bathy_maps/balch_wakefield.pdf
- Last Modified By: kash87 on 04/10/21 07:57 AM
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Fish Species
Balch Pond Baits and Tackle
Soft Baits Check Prices
- 5 inch senkos
- senkos
Topwater Bait Check Prices
- Zara spook puppy
- zara spook puppy
Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices
Lizard Check Prices
- zoom Chartruese lizard
Nightcrawler Check Prices
- half of a live nightcrawlers on a #8 hook with 2 splitshots 18" up on line
- nightcrawler with a bobber
- nightcrawler no weight just drifting in current
- fished a nightcrawler and got lots of bites landed 4 of them.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook.i also tried wiggly worm lure and landed 3 more.using a jigging motion seem to work.i tried cple other lures with no luck.
- caught 1 bluegill off a nightcrawler.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook
- nightcrawler with some weight drifted along bottom
- nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom
- trolling with half a nightcrawler about 100 feet behind boat.i had on some weight,swivel,beads,spinner with a #8 hook.i had him hooked on the lip
Balch Pond Description
Although there are a few access points where the public can shore fish or launch a boat no bigger than they can carry, there is a trailor boat launch, but with a fee.
Balch has both warm water and cold water game fish in the lake including smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, black crappie, pickerel, horned pout, and yellow perch. Fishing tournaments and derbies are common - three to five events a year. You can launch at Dick's Marina for a fee ($5 to launch, $5 to park). There are no public launches or state owned access sites. Most access to Balch is private.
Located on the Maine/NH border, Balch pond is governed by special interstate water regulations, available wherever NH fishing licenses are sold. Balch Pond has excellent fisheries for Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie and Pickerel. Pickerel fishing begins in spring as soon as the water warms and is also excellent in winter for ice-fishing. The shoreline is moderately developed. Average ice-out is May 1st. The pond consists of numerous coves, islands, ledges, docks, shoreline riprap.
Stump Pond (also known as Balch Pond) is a 571-acre (2.31 km2)[1] water body located on the New Hampshire-Maine border, in the towns of Wakefield, New Hampshire and Acton and Newfield, Maine. The water body is known as Stump Pond in New Hampshire and Balch Pond in Maine. Water flows from the eastern end of Balch Pond into the Little Ossipee River, a tributary of the Saco River.