Fishing near Wilton in Hillsborough County, NH

3.42 Rating based on 103 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Brook Trout, Sunfish, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 158
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 299
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fat larry near Wilton

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The Old Overpass near Wilton

The Old Overpass

The "cast upstream" method seemed to work pretty well.
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At The Horsehoe near Wilton

At The Horsehoe

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and i shall call him Larry near Wilton

and i shall call him Larry

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The Loner near Wilton

The Loner

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Top Fishing Spots near Wilton

Stony Brook
Stony Brook

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King Brook Resorvoir
King Brook Resorvoir

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Purgatory Brook
Purgatory Brook

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Putnam Lake
Putnam Lake

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Badger Pond
Badger Pond

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Osgood Pond
Osgood Pond

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Wilton Area Fish Species

Recent Wilton Fishing Reports

8/9/15 Fishing Report Aug 12, 2015

8/9/15

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wilton reservoir Fishing Report Mar 26, 2014

wilton reservoir

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ice fishing on a very windy day. ...

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Souhegan River - Old Overpass Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

Souhegan River - Old Overpass

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

Yet another section of the Souhegan River, by an old Rt.101 overpass onto Intervale Rd.
Decent parking, well off to the side of Rt.101.

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Sunrise at The Horseshoe Fishing Report Mar 27, 2012

Sunrise at The Horseshoe

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

We each caught one small Brook Trout shortly after sunrise, the rest of the day consisted of getting our hooks cleaned by stealthy little fish.

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The "Horseshoe" Fishing Report Mar 20, 2012

The "Horseshoe"

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

It was fairly hard to find decent river spots to fish with the water so low; I'm glad Mike knew about this section of the Souhegan and we were luc...

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Up & Down the Souhegan. Fishing Report May 18, 2012

Up & Down the Souhegan.

Souhegan River - Wilton, NH -

Caught my first Brown Trout of the season by the old Rt.101 Souhegan overpass, a hefty 10.5".
We finally ended up further 101 down by the dam ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Wilton

Check Prices

  • senko
  • texes rigged senko
  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • mepps lure
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • mepps lure
  • plastics
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • Bobber & Shiner.

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

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • Fish back right of the pond

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • Ribbit frog
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • EHC

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • 1/4 ounce
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
  • 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
  • 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

  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • shallow running crank baits
  • 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.
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Same as Bass 1
  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • 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

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • white
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddletail Swimbait

Wet Fly Check Prices

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.

    Lazily trolling.
  • Neon Orange 2-way spinner hook.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

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.
  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog

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

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