Fishing near Litchfield in Hillsborough County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Common Carp, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 193
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 430
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chilln near Litchfield

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Largemouth only near Litchfield

Largemouth only

secret pond, tough territory when unknown
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side of the road near Litchfield

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under the trees near Litchfield

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woods near Litchfield

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Top Fishing Spots near Litchfield

Horseshoe Pond
Horseshoe Pond

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Small Boat Launch (no Trailer)
Small Boat Launch (no Trailer)

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Greens Pond
Greens Pond

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Duck Pond
Duck Pond

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Pennichuck Brook
Pennichuck Brook

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Bowers Pond
Bowers Pond

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Litchfield Area Fish Species

Recent Litchfield Fishing Reports

Souhegan River, Baboosic Brook & Merrimack River Fishing Report Jul 18, 2011

Souhegan River, Baboosic Brook & Merrimack River

Souhegan/Baboosic/Merrimack - Merrimack, NH -

A decent place to hit 3 rivers in one easy trip.

(To cut down on the amount of Hotspot clutter, I don't list Bluegill or Fallfish catches u...

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june 30th 2020 Fishing Report Jul 01, 2020

june 30th 2020

souhegan river -

used a 1/4 ounce spinner and a worm and bobber caught two small mouth bass
Species
smallmouth bass brook and rainbow trout bluegill creek chub...

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chilln Fishing Report Sep 21, 2009

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merrimac river -

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Sunny Tuesday Fishing Report May 15, 2008

Sunny Tuesday

Unknown Lake, Merrimack, NH -

Sunny warm and breezy, great day for fishing...

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Natcook lake - Late AM trip Fishing Report Aug 07, 2010

Natcook lake - Late AM trip

Naticook Lake -

Beautiful day, upper 80's low humidity.Got skunked though....

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Between classes Fishing Report May 20, 2013

Between classes

Pennachuck Water Supply -

I went fishing a few times between classes in the Pennachuck Water supply right down the road from my school. Some days it was chilly and the bite wa...

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Baits and Tackle used near Litchfield

Check Prices

  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • mepps lure
  • mepps
  • tiki worms
  • mepps lure agila
  • mepps lure
  • Green Lizards
  • P.bait
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • live, rubber, spinner

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • 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
  • 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

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • pinners
  • Live minnow
  • Live minnows
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • Large shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

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

  • 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
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/4 ounce
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • White Rooster Tail
  • 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
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Yamamoto!
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • I tried wacky-rigged yum dingers, a jitterbug, a mepps rooster tail, texas-rigged dingers, grubbs, and a rapala original floating minnow. Nothing worked on the bass that are supposed to be in here.
  • Power Worm. Texas Rig.
  • 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.
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky-rigged yum f2 dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot
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Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 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.
  • sluggos
  • mepps
  • mepps #2
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • 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.
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • Silver shad crank
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • white
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • any thing will work
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • One whole crawler on a size 1/0 hook, sent to the bottom.

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
  • Chatterbait

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • worms and P.bait
  • a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
  • 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.
  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn

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