Fishing near Bedford in Hillsborough County, NH

3.41 Rating based on 128 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 169
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 351
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Top Fishing Spots near Bedford

Piscataquog River
Piscataquog River

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Pine Island Pond
Pine Island Pond

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Baboosic Brook
Baboosic Brook

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Nutt Pond
Nutt Pond

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

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Baboosic Lake
Baboosic Lake

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Bedford Area Fish Species

Recent Bedford Fishing Reports

place on side of road Fishing Report Jul 16, 2020

place on side of road

wallace road bedford -

i used a chatter bait and lost 3 pickerel used worms and caught a few sunfish saw a few bass perfect place with shade under bridge
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5/21/14 Merrimack River Fishing Report May 22, 2014

5/21/14 Merrimack River

Manchester, NH -

snuck in a quick hour before work. ...

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after work  Fishing Report Jul 13, 2009

after work

bass island pond -

first catch here think it was a small mouth...

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bored Fishing Report Aug 19, 2009

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Piscataquag River -

down the river...

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bored Fishing Report Jul 19, 2009

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bass island pond -

right on the river...

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chilln Fishing Report Aug 19, 2009

chilln

Piscataquag River -

lil guy...

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Baits and Tackle used near Bedford

Check Prices

  • mepps lure
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • mepps lure
  • Green Lizards
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • All types of baits
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • just used plain worms.

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

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

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait
  • 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

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot

Minnow Check Prices

  • pinners
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Large shiners
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala

Lizard Check Prices

  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond

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)
  • Chartuese w/ Green

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • black/yellow heddon spook

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.
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

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

Worm Check Prices

  • 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.
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky-rigged yum f2 dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dillie
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • Just any worm
  • wacky-rigged yum dillies
  • Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • white zoom fluke
  • white zoom flukes
    green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.

    booyah boo jog / craw trailer
  • zoom white flukes
  • Dark senko texas rigged

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

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
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Silver shad crank
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back

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 n blue jig n pig

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.
  • bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • 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.
  • any thing will work
  • colorado blade leader
  • with a colorado blade leader

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • worms and P.bait
  • 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.
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • worms and powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • Shiners
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.

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