Fishing near Brookline in Hillsborough County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 180
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 362
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Brookline Fishing Photos

Biggest of the year! near Brookline

Biggest of the year!

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Take a look at this Covered Bridge that spans the Nissitissit River which runs through Brookline!
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Check out this pic of the Nissitissit River which runs through Brookline!
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Here's the Nissitissit River (during winter) which runs through Brookline!
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Amherst Country Club near Brookline

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Top Fishing Spots near Brookline

Nissitissit River
Nissitissit River

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Melendy Pond
Melendy Pond

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Rocky Pond
Rocky Pond

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Osgood Pond
Osgood Pond

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Mason Brook
Mason Brook

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Walker Brook
Walker Brook

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Brookline Area Fish Species

Recent Brookline Fishing Reports

Potanipo Fishing Report May 09, 2008

Potanipo

Potanipo Lake, Brookline, NH -

cool water, early AM, small fish somewhat active...

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Potanipo Fishing Report Sep 04, 2012

Potanipo

Potanipo -

Found a large school of bass and crappie in about 16' of water. Biggest largemouth was 21.25", also caught several in the 15"-17" ...

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Nissitissit River Wandering Fishing Report Mar 22, 2012

Nissitissit River Wandering

Nissitissit River - Brookline -

We parked alongside the ballpark on Oak Hill Rd and initially wanted to fish downstream of the bridge at the end of Bohanon Bridge Rd (I would assume ...

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Amherst Pond Fishing Report May 16, 2016

Amherst Pond

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Small little pond in the back of one of my friends house....

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Flints pond Hollis NH Fishing Report Sep 12, 2010

Flints pond Hollis NH

Flints Pond Hollis NH -

6-10am 12 Bass and countless pickeral...

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Souhegan River, Milford Fishing Report May 10, 2010

Souhegan River, Milford

Souhegan river -

Great place for beginner fly fishing. this is where I take my students ofr their first time "on the water". can almost guarantee gettign int...

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Baits and Tackle used near Brookline

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  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • plastics
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
  • mepps lure
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • senko
  • Rooster Tail
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • texes rigged senko
  • mepps

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • Big Shinner
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Shinners
  • Pike shinners, again

Creature Check Prices

  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • Large shiners
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • pinners
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • Live minnow
  • Live minnows
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • rebel popr

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • Fish back right of the pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • red
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • powerbait nuggets
  • Trolling main channel

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • 1/4 ounce
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • senkos
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • mepps
  • mepps #2
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • sluggos

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • shallow running crank baits
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • rapala wounded minnow
  • Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • Crawfish style.
  • pumpkin
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • brown

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Wolly Bugger

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • Daredevil

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
    One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
    All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.

    We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.

  • We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...

    In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
  • Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.

    all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • Bread or Meat or anything that Sunfish will eat
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.

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