Fishing near Northwood in Rockingham County, NH

3.6 Rating based on 49 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 109
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 230
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Northwood Fishing Photos

Pickerel near Northwood

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Beautiful Sunset! near Northwood

Beautiful Sunset!

Here's a pic of a beautiful sunset on Bow Lake in Strafford, NH!
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Here's a view of Bow Lake in Strafford, NH!
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Smallmouth caught off Boatlaunch near Northwood

Smallmouth caught off Boatlaunch

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Northwood, NH near Northwood

Northwood, NH

Enjoying the shallows here. Caught a small Chain Pickeral.
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Top Fishing Spots near Northwood

Northwood Lake
Northwood Lake

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Bow Lake
Bow Lake

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Jenness Pond
Jenness Pond

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Pleasant Lake
Pleasant Lake

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Isinglass River
Isinglass River

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Stonehouse Pond
Stonehouse Pond

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Northwood Area Fish Species

Recent Northwood Fishing Reports

Northwood Lake 7/11/10 Fishing Report Jul 24, 2010

Northwood Lake 7/11/10

Northwood Lake N.H. -

BVBA tournament proved to be a tough fish for all envolved. Overcast start of tourny led to a few showers and eventually a sunny breezy afternoon. I f...

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Jenness Pond Fishing Report May 27, 2012

Jenness Pond

Northwood Jenness Pond -

Has some great Chain Pickerel...

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Swains Lake Fishing Report Jun 27, 2011

Swains Lake

Swains Lake, NH -

Fished Swains lake for a few hours Sunday morning. Slow day, landed only a few Largemouth....

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Swains Pond Fishing Report Jun 14, 2009

Swains Pond

Swains Pond Barrington N.H. -

Rapping up our week vacation Bro Joe and I stopped and fished this 500 acre lake on the way home. The fishing was extremely slow and only 7 bass were ...

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Bear Brook St. Park Fishing Report May 24, 2009

Bear Brook St. Park

brook state park -

well the day was good one ...... We had a picnic ,, played on some swings with the kids , roamed the woods and did some fishing .. We caught 4 brook ...

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Swains Lake Fishing Report Aug 03, 2011

Swains Lake

Swains Lake NH -

My Son and I spent 4 hours on Swains Lake in NH. 30 Fish total. We each got 15. Biggest was 3.1, also had 2 come in at 3. Almost 50-50 mix of large an...

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Baits and Tackle used near Northwood

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  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • just used plain worms.
  • All types of baits
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • Green Lizards
  • I used two kinds of Powerbait here. The first were small "Red Shad" worms. The other were blue salamanders. Both were rigged "Texas Style."
  • These are the fish from the second night on the damn. There may be a repeat photo in here somewhere. I apologize, they were taken with different cameras and are stored all over the place on my various devices.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel

Creature Check Prices

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

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait
  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss

Minnow Check Prices

  • Here is the fish I caught, which was the first fish of the day, an okay pickerel. Everybody was using live shiners on their tip ups and jig rods.
  • 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.
  • pinners
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler

Lizard Check Prices

  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
  • Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.
  • Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
  • I caught this little guy on the same rig that I caught the Smallmouth on. A blue lizard texas rig.
  • I caught this on the same type of blue lizard that I have been hammering the Largemouth with. I was twitching it along the rocky bottom when this guy decided to play.
  • I used those blue lizards again in this shallow area. They always seem to produce well in this lake one way or the other.
  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Same as train track 2
  • zoom 6" pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • i was fishing a homemade tandem rig...weedless green minnow bait and a spinnerbait ...hooked the bas on the spinnerbait...i don't know if the other lure helped or not
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • black/yellow heddon spook
  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • Also included in mess of fish attacking the fly spinner was this large sunfish. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure which species it is. I'm guessing it's a Bluegill, due to it's size and lack of red on the gill cover, or blue "war paint." I forgot how much fun catching these fish on light tackle was! The picture is not so good, but it was dark and this was the best I could do.
  • While plying the northern end of the lake by the mouths of the inlet streams, I tossed around one of those Joe's "Fly Spinners." While I didn't get any trout, it turns out that Sunnies and yellow perch couldn't get enough of it!
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
  • all between 7in and 4in
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

  • Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • black/silver flake senko
  • black/silverflake senkos
  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • black /silver flake senko
  • Just any worm
  • blck and red zoom bait crawlers

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged
  • zoom white flukes
  • white zoom flukes
    green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.

    booyah boo jog / craw trailer
  • white zoom fluke

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • mepps #2
  • mepps
  • sluggos
  • phoebe lure
  • Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish Lure
  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish lure
  • i used the bigger crawfish Lure this time
  • crawfish plastic lure

Crankbait Check Prices

  • minnow looking crankbait....
  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • deep runner crankbait....
  • minnow type Lure
  • tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
  • 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.
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5

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
  • black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • half a nightcrawler on a 2 way spinner trolling at#5 back towards boat launch
  • #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
  • boomer two feet up
  • i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
  • with a colorado blade leader
  • colorado blade leader
  • nightcrawler on a bobber above the dam. without a bobber below the dam where i had the most luck
  • on a bobber
  • The other reason we exhausted our supply of nightcrawlers.
  • There were so many weeds here that pulling a normal lure through simply was not an option. We dropped some worms down hoping maybe a pickerel would latch on. Alas, we draine our supply of worms on these little guys!

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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • micro King
  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • I was using the same jig/nightcrawler combintion as last time.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Worm

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • worms and powerbait
  • worms and P.bait
  • Curious about the trout-like fish I always see swimming by the boat ramp, I tossed in some powerbait on a light rod to see what they were. Turns out, they were some suckers! You know, they fight pretty hard for their size. I'll keep this spot in mind the next time I need some lake trout bait!
  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • Worms & Orange Powerbait.

    Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
  • Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
  • Rainbow Powerbait.

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