Fishing near Hooksett in Merrimack County, NH

3.4 Rating based on 69 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 128
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 298
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Hooksett Fishing Photos

October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond near Hooksett

October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond

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October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond near Hooksett

October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond

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October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond near Hooksett

October 6, 2012 - Head's Pond

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weeds near Hooksett

weeds

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Hooksett fishing photo 4

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Pond four near Hooksett

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Top Fishing Spots near Hooksett

Dubes Pond
Dubes Pond

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Head's Pond
Head's Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
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Pinnacle Pond
Pinnacle Pond

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Dorrs Pond
Dorrs Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 3856

Tower Hill Pond
Tower Hill Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 11776

Good Tip
Good Tip

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Hooksett Area Fish Species

Recent Hooksett Fishing Reports

Killing time Fishing Report Sep 01, 2012

Killing time

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Decided to fish behind the Goodwill plaza again while waiting for a few friends to get ready to go fish somewhere else....

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Testing pond behind Goodwill plaza Fishing Report Aug 25, 2012

Testing pond behind Goodwill plaza

Hooksett -

I've been wanting to see what would bite in the small pond behind the Goodwill plaza in Hooksett for a while. This morning there were lots of smal...

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Fishing with friends 6 Fishing Report Sep 30, 2012

Fishing with friends 6

Head's Pond -

Went out to Heads Pond with a friend from work....

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Exploring Fishing Report Jun 24, 2013

Exploring

Head's Pond -

I went to Head's Pond with a friend and we wandered around some more of the trails we hadn't explored before in search of the big bass hideout...

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Weekly fishing trip Fishing Report Sep 22, 2013

Weekly fishing trip

Head's Pond -

I went to Head's Pond again with a friend for our weekly trip. I was a pretty slow day with only one fish per hour, but I did catch a couple nice...

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One of my favorite ponds Fishing Report Jun 04, 2013

One of my favorite ponds

Head's Pond -

I had a few hours to kill, so I did a little fishing at heads pond. There wasn't another soul from the time I got there till I left; it was very ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hooksett

Check Prices

  • mepps
  • just used plain worms.
  • mepps lure
  • All types of baits
  • mepps lure agila
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • mepps lure
  • Green Lizards
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • tiki

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook

Creature Check Prices

  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • pinners
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • Large shiners
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Live Minnows
  • Live Shiner
  • This is the first fish I have ever caught using a tip-up device. My other ice fishing catches were done using my normal bass road sitting by a single hole in the ice. I much prefer to do things this way! It was just a small Chain Pickerel however. For bait we were using some live shiners we bought at a local shop. This is also the first time I have ever used those!
  • Here is the first pickerel I caught. Came up early in the day. Nice to have some action early to keep you interested. As usual, it took a live shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • rebel pop-r
  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala

Lizard Check Prices

  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • black/yellow heddon spook

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
  • 1/4 ounce
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • using all types of lures here on this day.. just too cold too chase the hunt,,, lazy b****es

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • Prince & Copper John
  • Copper John, under a EHC

Worm Check Prices

  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Just any worm
  • wacky-rigged yum dillies
  • wacky-rigged yum dillie
  • Wacky-rigged yum f2 dinger
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • blck and red zoom bait crawlers
  • black /silver flake senko
  • black/silver flake senko
  • black/silverflake senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • white zoom fluke
  • white zoom flukes
    green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.

    booyah boo jog / craw trailer
  • zoom white flukes
  • Dark senko texas rigged
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • mepps #2
  • mepps
  • sluggos
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Rooster Tail

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish Lure
  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish lure

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Silver shad crank
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • white zoom flukes
    and brown and green jig with green craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • colorado blade leader
  • with a colorado blade leader
  • bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.
  • boomer two feet up
  • Nightcrawlers
  • Nightcrawlers and Snails with a bobber.
  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • any thing will work
  • i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
  • i think i caught a pumpkinseed on a nightcrawler might have been a bluegill

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.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Worm

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • worms and P.bait
  • worms and powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Shiners
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • 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.
  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.

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