Fishing near Freedom in Carroll County, NH

3.86 Rating based on 30 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Bluegill, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 99
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 63
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Freedom Fishing Photos

Largie #1 near Freedom

Largie #1

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3.5 LMB near Freedom

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Giant Pickerel near Freedom

Giant Pickerel

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Smallmouth! near Freedom

Smallmouth!

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Evening Smallmouth near Freedom

Evening Smallmouth

This was the second of the two Smallmouth, caught later that evening. During that outing, I managed to hook into two others, but was only able to boat this one. 15 inches and about 2 lbs.
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Small Larry near Freedom

Small Larry

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Top Fishing Spots near Freedom

Loon Lake
Loon Lake

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Ossipee Lake
Ossipee Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 17496

West Branch
West Branch

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Silver Lake
Silver Lake

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 10748

Pine River
Pine River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1076

Bearcamp River
Bearcamp River

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Freedom Area Fish Species

Recent Freedom Fishing Reports

Ossipee Lake Fishing Report Sep 29, 2014

Ossipee Lake

Lake Ossipee, NH -

Weekend trip to Freedom, NH with a good friend. We hit Lake Ossipee for a full day on his Whaler and had some small luck throughout. He caught a nice ...

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Round Pond Fishing Report Jun 14, 2009

Round Pond

Round Pond Freedom N.H. -

Canoe venture w/ Bro Joe got us some Lms that fought like they were smallies even some spectacular leaps. Big fish was a 4lber that towed us out to de...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Ossipee Lake 6/28/2014 Fishing Report Jun 30, 2014

Ossipee Lake 6/28/2014

Ossipee Lake NH -

My folks and I headed up to NH last weekend to catch up with some old friends. Since their summer house is right on Ossipee Lake, I couldn’t resist ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Silver Lake Fishing Report Jul 15, 2011

Silver Lake

Silver Lake, NH -

Fished Silver Lake in Madison and a few small ponds close by. Slow week, boated about 10 fish all together nothing big....

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Silver Lake Madison N.H. Fishing Report Jun 14, 2009

Silver Lake Madison N.H.

Silver Lake Madison N.H. -

Week long trip to silver lake w/ Bro Joe. Weather was mostly overcast w/ 2 bright sunny days. The lake has many 2-3 lb smallies and we made sure to ge...

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First Couple Fish on the Hollow Body Fishing Report Aug 28, 2015

First Couple Fish on the Hollow Body

Moore's Pond, Tamworth, NH -

The place where we stayed up in Tamworth had a nice pond on it called Moore's Pond. The pond isn't to big, but gets up to forty feet deep. I w...

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Baits and Tackle used near Freedom

Check Prices

  • wacky, shaky head worms
  • wacky senko
  • senkos, shaky worms
  • wacky senkos and C rigging
  • wacky, C rigging
  • shaky worm
  • Wacky 4 inch senkos
  • drop shot powerbait smelt
  • drop shot rig
  • wacky rig senko

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog

Tube Check Prices

  • generic tube purchased on ebay, via 'south east auctions'. green and red flakes, pictured in it's mouth. Largemouth pictured. Many smallmouths caught.

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and nightcrawlers. Normally don't use live bait, it's so boring to me. I was teaching my girlfriend how to bobber fish in the hopes that she would embrace my hobby. Didn't work. Oh well.
  • 15 feet off ground

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • hollow body
  • Scum Frog black hollow body
  • Popper and around 7"
  • reble pop r
  • Black Jitterbug
  • Zara spook puppy
  • zara spook puppy
  • Mostly J7 and J9 rapalas both in Black and Neon Orange

Lizard Check Prices

  • zoom Chartruese lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • wacky rigged senko

    smallies and larrys

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 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

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Zoom Horny Toad in Watermelonseed

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • 3-5' jerk bait
  • deep diveing jerk bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Joe's Flies spinner
  • rooster tail
  • 1st was 6"
    2nd was 1-1/2lbs
    3rd was 10"

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 6" Green Brown Pumpkin Senko
  • Wacky rigged Senkos

    Green Pumkin or Bk/ BL
  • This was the first (and bigger) of the two Smallmouth I managed to boat. Despite the looks, (he bled quite a bit, I think due to gill damage) I was able to release him safely. For the billionth time, those Tequila Sunrise Power Worms produced all of the action.
  • Watermelon 5"Senko, and shad colored paddletail worm
  • 5" Yum Dinger Black/blue flake
  • 5" Yum Dinger black/blue flake
  • Dropshot - 1-1/4lb and a 11"er
  • red shad senko
  • Senko shad color, 5 inch.
  • Yum Watermelon red flak texas rigged weightless

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Dropshot - Too many of these suckers
  • 3 Keepers
    1.47lbs, 1lb 2oz, and 3/4lbs

    Also 2 shorts
  • Dropshot, and C-Rig
    4 Keepers, and 2 Shorts
  • Dropshot and in the 7" range
  • All on the Dropshot 1lb 15oz, 1-3/4lb, 1-1/2lb, 1-1/4lb, and 1 just over a lb
  • Shakeyhead, and Dropshot. Between a 24" 3lb fatty to 12"
  • Drop Shot, and Shakeyhead all between 15"-12"
  • Shakey Head - a 1lber and two 10"ers
  • senkos

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • phoebe lure
  • 5" senko in bluegrass color, weightless

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish plastic lure

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
  • minnow type Lure

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • jig, fluke,worm,crankbait
  • shakey head
  • black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Nightcrawlers, shiners.
  • it was getting late sun was just about down and we started catching Brown Bullheads
  • half a nightcrawler on a #8 hook with spinner and bead rig. had a swivel and weight about a 12" up
  • bottom drifting worms
  • nightcrawler on a bobber
  • half of a live nightcrawlers on a #8 hook with 2 splitshots 18" up on line
  • nightcrawler with some weight drifted along bottom
  • nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom
  • nightcrawler no weight just drifting in current
  • fished a nightcrawler and got lots of bites landed 4 of them.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook.i also tried wiggly worm lure and landed 3 more.using a jigging motion seem to work.i tried cple other lures with no luck.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • brass dotted harry lure

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spook
  • Green with black spots jitter bug

Grub Check Prices

  • Brown curly tailed w/ blue flak weightless
  • Brown curly tailed w/ blue flake weightless
  • Bass Pro Brown with blue flake curly tailed grub

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Squid

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