Fishing near Nashua 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: 195
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 605
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LMB - Large Mouth Bass near Nashua

LMB - Large Mouth Bass

Caught with watermelon seed fishes - Zoom brand
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A wee punkinseed fishy near Nashua

A wee punkinseed fishy

Worm bait
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LMB - Mines Falls near Nashua

LMB - Mines Falls

Large Mouth Bass - caught by PositivelyKAH
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Blue Gill - Nashua River - By Margarita's near Nashua

Blue Gill - Nashua River - By Margarita's

Nice bluegill girlfriend!
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Mine Falls / Whipple St. near Nashua

Mine Falls / Whipple St.

I was taking a moment to look over the bridge at the huge schools of Bluegill and decided to dangle a worm over the 15' high bridge... not intending to catch any larger than a Bluegill.
I saw a rather hefty Largemouth Bass taking a slow swim over to the bait; much to my surprise, it took it. Even more surprising was the two man effort it took to safely get the fish ashore.
The Bass was either very old or had simply seen better days. It had several small, round pock marks in it's scales, a dark green-grey sickly color and didn't put up much of a fight.
It's mouth was, however, large enough to fit my fist into.

One of these days I'll find the picture...
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Fish Stick... near Nashua

Fish Stick...

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Top Fishing Spots near Nashua

Mill Pond
Mill Pond

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Sandy Pond
Sandy Pond

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Nashua River
Nashua River

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Supply Pond
Supply Pond

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Harris Pond
Harris Pond

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Pennichuck Brook
Pennichuck Brook

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Nashua Area Fish Species

Recent Nashua Fishing Reports

Mine Falls - Nashua, NH Fishing Report Jul 31, 2013

Mine Falls - Nashua, NH

Mine Falls, Nashua, NH -

Ooooo-eeee. There's some mighty fine fish in the Nashua River. From large and small mouth bass, blue gills, pickerel, and even an 2.5' eel!...

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Mine Falls Bridge - Whipple St Entrance Fishing Report Mar 21, 2012

Mine Falls Bridge - Whipple St Entrance

Mine Falls Bridge / Whipple St Entrance - Nashua, NH -

It's (part) of the Nashua River and usually nothing to write home about, however, some of the lazy waterways that loop around Mine Falls do have s...

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Mill Pond-Evening 6-8pm Fishing Report Aug 07, 2010

Mill Pond-Evening 6-8pm

Mill Pond Nashua NH -

Skunked again, had something large but line snapped 3 feet from landing....

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Scratch That Itch! Fishing Report May 02, 2014

Scratch That Itch!

Nashua River/Jackson Dam - Nashua, NH -

It may not have been my first outing of the season, but, it was my first catch of the year that wasn't a Bluegill or Fallfish.
Bright sunny day...

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Weekend Reprive Fishing Report May 27, 2013

Weekend Reprive

Nashua River - Nashua, NH -

The failed fishing trip started to get to me... I had to get a line in before the holiday weekend was over.
So an evening trip to the Nashua River ...

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Ottarnic Pond - Early Spring Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

Ottarnic Pond - Early Spring

Ottarnic Pond - Hudson, NH -

Another warm water pond that would be much better with a canoe or small boat.
There is apparently shoreline access from Merrifield Park on Rt.111 t...

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Baits and Tackle used near Nashua

Check Prices

  • mepps lure
  • Rooster Tail
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • i used corn
  • tiki worms
  • P.bait
  • wacky rig garry yamamoto
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters

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.
  • Large Minnows
  • Large and XL Shiners

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 Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
  • 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.
  • Creature baits and senkos around docks.
  • More creature baits, around fallen timber and brush.

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
  • minitube flourescent

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • FROG
  • jitterbug
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • rebel popr
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • Bone Zara spook
  • Though I have caught a few bass on various lures here so far, topwaters seem to be the most productive by far. It makes sense when you think about. Go down to Fairhaven on a summer night and just try and count the splashes on the surface. I lost count somewhere around 20.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Fish back right of the pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • red
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • Trolling main channel
  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/4 ounce
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • 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
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • Yamamoto!
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
  • Zoom Watermelon Seed
  • My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white

Hard Baits Check Prices

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot
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  • Drop Shot
  • Shaky Head
  • Jigs, Worms, Cranks
    Chuck had 3 Keepers, and I had 1.
    Many shorts caught
  • one 1/2lb and one 1lb Largemouth
  • pitching into the pads with a craw
  • My Best 5:
    Two 2lbers
    1-1/2lber
    1-1/4lber
    1lber

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

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

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • crawdads and soft frogs

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.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • pumpkin
  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!
  • black and blue with blue craw trailer
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • One Keeper at 1lb, and 10 shorts
  • 1st was 1lb 3oz
    2nd was 2lb 5oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • white
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • Berkeley GULP!

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Neon Orange 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook.

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
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.

    We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.

  • We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...

    In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
  • Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.

    all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
  • Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.

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