Fishing near Dunbarton in Merrimack County, NH

3.61 Rating based on 48 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Brook Trout, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 118
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 241
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Long Pond near Dunbarton

Long Pond

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All Pickerel near Dunbarton

All Pickerel

Great boat launch
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4 lb Bass, Clough state park near Dunbarton

4 lb Bass, Clough state park

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Dunbarton fishing photo 4

just a lil guy
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Big Girl #1 near Dunbarton

Big Girl #1


Caught on a SPRO BBZ-1 Rat swimbait.

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Top Fishing Spots near Dunbarton

Firehouse Pond
Firehouse Pond

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Turkey River
Turkey River

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Little Turkey Pond
Little Turkey Pond

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South Branch Piscataquog River
South Branch Piscataquog River

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Soucook River
Soucook River

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Hopkinton Lake
Hopkinton Lake

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Dunbarton Area Fish Species

Recent Dunbarton Fishing Reports

everett Lake Fishing Report Jul 17, 2011

everett Lake

Everett lake -

good fishing spot caught a couple of small mouth and a lake trout and some sun fish...

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6-17 Kimball Pond Fishing Report Jun 17, 2009

6-17 Kimball Pond

Kimball Pond -

3 pickerel...

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Fun Fishing - Turkey Pond, Concord, NH Fishing Report Jul 21, 2015

Fun Fishing - Turkey Pond, Concord, NH

Turkey Pond, NH -

This past Friday, I had to head up to New Hampshire to take the boater safety test at 6 PM. I figured I'd make a day of it, bring my kayak, and so...

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Stumpfield 8-27-11 Fishing Report Aug 28, 2011

Stumpfield 8-27-11

Stumpfield, NH -

I'll try to keep this short. Went to NH to fish stumps pre-Irene but they were less than glorious. Fished the pads and caught a lot of 1.75 - 2+...

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chilln Fishing Report Sep 27, 2009

chilln

little turkey pond -

mikes cought 8 smallies...

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fish on  Fishing Report Jul 24, 2010

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turky pond -

turky pond...

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Baits and Tackle used near Dunbarton

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  • tiki
  • just used plain worms.
  • mepps
  • mepps lure
  • mepps lure
  • mepps lure agila
  • All types of baits
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • Green Lizards
  • live, rubber, spinner

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook

Creature Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

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)

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • black/yellow heddon spook
  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 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
  • 1/4 ounce

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • EHC

Nymph Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • wacky-rigged yum dillies
  • blck and red zoom bait crawlers
  • black /silver flake senko
  • black/silverflake senkos
  • black/silver flake senko
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Small 1inch white with spinner
  • Wacky-rigged yum f2 dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dillie
  • wacky rigged green 4" senko

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • white zoom fluke
  • white zoom flukes
    green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.

    booyah boo jog / craw trailer
  • zoom white flukes
  • Dark senko texas rigged
  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • mepps #2
  • mepps
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • sluggos

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish Lure
  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish lure

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • white zoom flukes
    and brown and green jig with green craw trailer
  • 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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • colorado blade leader
  • with a colorado blade leader
  • i think i caught a pumpkinseed on a nightcrawler might have been a bluegill
  • boomer two feet up
  • bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.
  • i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • Neon Orange 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.

    Lazily trolling.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Worm

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • power bait baby
  • worms and powerbait
  • worms and P.bait
  • Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.
  • 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.

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