Fishing near Madbury in Strafford County, NH

3.6 Rating based on 50 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 98
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 135
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Madbury Fishing Photos

Decent Picky near Madbury

Decent Picky

This is when I remembered I left my forceps in the truck... good thing I remembered the band aids!
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Here's lookin' at yah! near Madbury

Here's lookin' at yah!

kind of gross but totally surprised me lol
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Bellamy Reservoir  near Madbury

Bellamy Reservoir

This was the most active area but none really that big
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Bellamy Reservoir  near Madbury

Bellamy Reservoir

lily pads with a few emergent stumps / branches
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Big Bass at Bellamey(Madbury Res.) near Madbury

Big Bass at Bellamey(Madbury Res.)

The bass was ina about four feet of water by some dead wood.

Sorry I don't own a scale but it was big.
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Madbury fishing photo 5

A water impoundment in the Bellamy River Wildlife Management Area in Dover, NH.
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Top Fishing Spots near Madbury

Bellamy River
Bellamy River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
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Cocheco River
Cocheco River

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

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 13299

Oyster River
Oyster River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 2759

"packers Falls"the Lamprey
"packers Falls"the Lamprey

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 12046

Little Bay
Little Bay

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 965

Madbury Area Fish Species

Recent Madbury Fishing Reports

Good day , but an odd catch Fishing Report Jul 20, 2014

Good day , but an odd catch

Bellamy Reservoir , Barrington , NH -

Spent a half day out at Bellamy Reservoir in Barrington NH. Fairly productive day as I caught 11 bass 1 pickerel and an eyeball. Not Intentional mind ...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Bellamy Resevoir Fishing Report Jun 20, 2011

Bellamy Resevoir

Bellamy Resevoir, Madbury NH -

Slow day on Bellamy Res., Fished for a few hours on Sunday morning with a friend. Only landed 3 small largemouth, nothing special....

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Big bass at the Madbury Res. Fishing Report Jul 29, 2009

Big bass at the Madbury Res.

Madbury Res. on 9 west. -

Nice location just on the outskirts of town. Real clean, no trash just good fishing.

Bass weight? I don't own a scale. Measured 23 inche...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Swain's Lake Fishing Report Sep 13, 2011

Swain's Lake

Swains Lake -

Bass Fishing on Swain's Lake, Went out on Swains lake while camping at Barrington Shore's Campground. Went out on a couple of small trips whi...

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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...

Avg. Rating: 4
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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 ...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Baits and Tackle used near Madbury

Check Prices

  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • Live linning a mackerel
    I did not weigh it or measure it! I just wanted to get it back in the water as soon as possible before it ate my fingers! It was the biggest blue I ever caught though.
  • rubber worms worked the best
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • All types of baits
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel
  • Fresh live mackeral
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss
  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
  • hit while sinking

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • 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
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • cast masters and diamond jig
  • Giant swedish pimple

Worm Check Prices

  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • berkley gulp power bait nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 with a bobber.
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • Just any worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • phoebe lure

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • deep runner crankbait....
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • minnow looking crankbait....
  • minnow type Lure
  • tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
  • and senkos too
  • #3 crank bait dark colored
  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
  • half a nightcrawler on a 2 way spinner trolling at#5 back towards boat launch
  • boomer two feet up
  • nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom
  • nightcrawler on a bobber above the dam. without a bobber below the dam where i had the most luck
  • on a bobber
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • fished a nightcrawler with a bobber
  • 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.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • micro King

Other Check Prices

  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • clams
  • worms and powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • worms and P.bait
  • Bread

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