Fishing near Mont Vernon in Hillsborough County, NH

3.44 Rating based on 106 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Yellow Perch, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 174
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 351
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Purgatory Brook near Mont Vernon

Purgatory Brook

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Purgatory Falls near Mont Vernon

Purgatory Falls

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Top Fishing Spots near Mont Vernon

Purgatory Brook
Purgatory Brook

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Jakes Pond
Jakes Pond

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Badger Pond
Badger Pond

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Lincoln Pond
Lincoln Pond

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Stony Brook
Stony Brook

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Dream Lake
Dream Lake

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Mont Vernon Area Fish Species

Recent Mont Vernon Fishing Reports

Drove past it 1,000 times and finally fished it. Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

Drove past it 1,000 times and finally fished it.

Lincoln Pond - Amherst, NH. -

A warm water pond that feels like your fishing in someones back yard, which, you kind of are... I think?
They are even so nice as to put out trash ...

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Our summer fishing, mostly Mystic river Watershed Fishing Report Jul 09, 2009

Our summer fishing, mostly Mystic river Watershed

Arlington, Winchester, Woburn, Lexington, Concord -

We live across the street and kayak and fish here weekly, but sometimes take excursions elsewhere. This "trip" is our master list to keep tr...

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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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Better one than none. Fishing Report May 24, 2014

Better one than none.

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

Quick evening trip to Wilton Falls (Souhegan River)... whole lot of aggressive hits on worms and powerbait but missed the hook on all but one....

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The Souhegan Finally Hits. Fishing Report May 11, 2013

The Souhegan Finally Hits.

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

A nice, warm late afternoon trip to the Wilton end of the Souhegan River. We started further up Rt.101 but didn't have much luck; so we headed dow...

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Finally!! Fishing Report May 02, 2014

Finally!!

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

After getting skunked on opening day of designated trout ponds, this was a much needed evening outing....

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Baits and Tackle used near Mont Vernon

Check Prices

  • mepps lure
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • mepps lure
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • Green Lizards
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • just used plain worms.
  • senko
  • texes rigged senko

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

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

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait

Minnow Check Prices

  • Large shiners
  • pinners
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • Shine on and dropped.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

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)
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • Chartuese w/ Green

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • powerbait nuggets

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • EHC

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/4 ounce
  • 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
  • using all types of lures here on this day.. just too cold too chase the hunt,,, lazy b****es
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • 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

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

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

Worm Check Prices

  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • 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.

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

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.

Craw Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • shallow running crank baits
  • 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.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

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.

Wet Fly Check Prices

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • 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.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.

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

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

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.
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • worms and P.bait
  • worms and powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • Shiners

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