Fishing near Hampstead in Rockingham County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Common Carp, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 183
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 409
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Nice Pickerel near Hampstead

Nice Pickerel

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Top Fishing Spots near Hampstead

Spicket River
Spicket River

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Angle Pond
Angle Pond

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Island Pond
Island Pond

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Ballard Pond
Ballard Pond

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Blunts Pond
Blunts Pond

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Benjamin Adams Pond
Benjamin Adams Pond

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Hampstead Area Fish Species

Recent Hampstead Fishing Reports

angle pond Fishing Report Jun 14, 2012

angle pond

angle pond -

smallies and large mouth...

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1st River 2014 Fishing Report Jun 10, 2014

1st River 2014

Odell Road, Sandown NH -

First time trying out some river fishing. Looking for trout. Accomplished!...

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Post Blizzard Ice Fishing Fishing Report Feb 10, 2013

Post Blizzard Ice Fishing

Arlington Mill Reservoir -

Hit the Ice on Arlington Pond. Had a good day. Decent action....

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Early Morning at Arlington Fishing Report Aug 13, 2012

Early Morning at Arlington

Arlington Mills Reservoir -

There is a real nice spot off N. Main St. Where a bunch or 2 and 3 pounders are just hanging out. Was able to grab a nice 2.5-3 pounder. I'm not...

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Dog Days of Arlington Fishing Report Aug 27, 2012

Dog Days of Arlington

Arlington Mills Reservoir -

Hit a couple spots of the weekend with a friend. One is an unnamed pond near a condo complex where my friend lives. Caught a couple of nice Largemou...

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Quick Trip Fishing Report Aug 02, 2012

Quick Trip

Arlington Mills Reservoir -

Quick trip to Arlington Mid-Afternoon. Got caught up in the down pours. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hampstead

Check Prices

  • tiki worms
  • P.bait
  • culprut and gary
  • White Power Eggs
  • White power eggs.
  • Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
    Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
    WCB Scopex pop-ups
    various Dat food Doughs
    chickj peas
    Sweet/spicy method mix
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Fresh live mackeral
  • Clams
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Mackerel

Creature Check Prices

  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait
  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss

Tube Check Prices

  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live minnow
  • Live minnows
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live Minnows
  • Live Shiner
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • hooked through back on tipup
  • pinners
  • Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bone Zara spook
  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • FROG
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • hit while sinking

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • Dark Colors
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/4 ounce
  • White Rooster Tail
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts
  • Non-Keeper

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • Wacky Senko Worm
  • Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.
  • PowerBait rubber worm
  • 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.
  • Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
  • just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
  • reeled real slow, weightless
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Weedless Texas rig with a rubber Zoom watermelon worm. Switched to a powerbait worm. There are some giant bass in this lake. The biggest bass of the day never made it to the boat. It snapped my 8lb line during the fight.
  • Power Worm. Texas Rig.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Soft Baits Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • Yum black/blue craw

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Spinnerbait
  • Rooster Tail
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
  • sluggos
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • mepps #3 trebble hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt
  • Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
  • 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties

Crankbait Check Prices

  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Silver shad crank
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • 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.
  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3
  • and senkos too
  • #3 crank bait dark colored

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • white

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom.
  • Sent to the bottom.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
  • Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
  • Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.

Herring Check Prices

  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
    1st was 25"
    2nd was 20"
  • Calms - All Between 10"-12"
  • Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
  • Calms - 25" and a 18"
  • Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
  • Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Daredevil
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • micro King
  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Shiners
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
  • Dog food boilie
  • Canned Corn
  • Maple-Banana Maize
    Pescaviva sweet corn
    Chicks
    Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  • again oatmeal
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.

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