Fishing near Hampton in Rockingham County, NH

3.64 Rating based on 101 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Common Carp, Striped Bass, Chain Pickerel, Atlantic Mackerel
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 105
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 197
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Hampton Fishing Photos

The Place near Hampton

The Place

These guys will always try and get you on fish
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Our cooler full near Hampton

Our cooler full

Didn't take long to fill the cooler, then we started filling totes
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Hampton fishing photo 2

We filled this one and one other.
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Blood bath, slaughter near Hampton

Blood bath, slaughter

Blood was everywhere making the deck slippery.
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The Filleting started. near Hampton

The Filleting started.

The mates started filleting fish in the middle of the trip.
they were filleting fish for three more hours after we docked. Remember it was a 2 hour ride in
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Waiting in line near Hampton

Waiting in line

These are fish waiting to be filleted at the dock.

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Top Fishing Spots near Hampton

Taylor River
Taylor River

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
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Hampton Harbor
Hampton Harbor

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 2
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Little River
Little River

Avg. Rating: 0
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Rye Harbor
Rye Harbor

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1014

Exeter Reservoir
Exeter Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5533

Exeter River
Exeter River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9150

Hampton Area Fish Species

Recent Hampton Fishing Reports

Hampton Harbor, 3 June 11 Fishing Report Jun 06, 2011

Hampton Harbor, 3 June 11

Hampton Harbor area. Marshes. -

First Striper Bass trip...

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Fishing with A Fishing Report Jun 01, 2011

Fishing with A

Batchelders Pond, hampton nh -

kid trip...

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Pollock fishing in November  Fishing Report Nov 22, 2008

Pollock fishing in November

Sea Brook NH -

Did a charter for some Pollock with a group of guys on one of the Eastman's Boats. They are located in Seabrook New Hampshire.
Headed down with...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Striped Bass, Hampton Fishing Report Jun 13, 2011

Striped Bass, Hampton

Hampton Harbor Inlet -

Great day on the water in Hampton Harbor. Fished the high tide. ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Commercial Striper Fishing Fishing Report Jul 14, 2011

Commercial Striper Fishing

MA/NH/ME coast -

Went out on my buddy's boat for stripers. He has a commercial permit in mass so we were right on the NH border throwing live mackerel and chummin...

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exeter reservoir Fishing Report Apr 30, 2009

exeter reservoir

exeter, nh -

nice place to fish .... alot of over hang ..... the hospital side is really good...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Baits and Tackle used near Hampton

Check Prices

  • rubber worms worked the best
  • Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
  • Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
  • Clams or seaworms
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
  • Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.
  • Live linning a mackerel
    I did not weigh it or measure it! I just wanted to get it back in the water as soon as possible before it ate my fingers! It was the biggest blue I ever caught though.
  • culprut and gary
  • White Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fresh live mackeral
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.
  • Clams
  • Mackerel
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss
  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Minnow Check Prices

  • hooked through back on tipup
  • Live minnows
  • Live Minnows
  • Live Shiner
  • Live minnow
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bone Zara spook
  • Xcalibur jimmy

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Dark Colors
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • Non-Keeper
  • cast masters and diamond jig
  • Giant swedish pimple
  • shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
    White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • texas rig
  • reeled real slow, weightless
  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
  • Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky Senko Worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We each caught 5 Keepers each.
    Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.

    I also had three 1-1/4lbers
  • Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
  • Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
  • Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Spinnerbait
  • Rooster Tail
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • sluggos

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

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.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
  • 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.
  • 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, just in deeper water than the first two.
  • Sent to the bottom.
  • Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Herring Check Prices

  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

  • gub on worm hook

Live Baits Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • clams
  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • Clam
  • clam
  • Bread
  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
  • clams for bait, catching doubles all day
  • Maple-Banana Maize
    Pescaviva sweet corn
    Chicks
    Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  • again oatmeal
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.

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