Fishing near New Ipswich in Hillsborough County, NH

3.59 Rating based on 114 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 151
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 220
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blast at little watatic near New Ipswich

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Little Watatic near New Ipswich

Little Watatic

on the bank of the point.
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blast at little watatic near New Ipswich

blast at little watatic

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little watatic near New Ipswich

little watatic

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Leona and the Release near New Ipswich

Leona and the Release

Kiss and release!
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Brianna near New Ipswich

Brianna

Miss Brianna hooked up to this guy at the edge of a downed tree. It was fun to watch her battle for it while it jumped and tried, repeatedly, to spit the bait!
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Top Fishing Spots near New Ipswich

Souhegan River
Souhegan River

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
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Trapfall Brook
Trapfall Brook

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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South Branch Souhegan River
South Branch Souhegan River

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# Reviews:
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Locke Brook
Locke Brook

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# Reviews:
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Lake Watatic
Lake Watatic

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# Reviews:
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Hubbard Pond
Hubbard Pond

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New Ipswich Area Fish Species

Recent New Ipswich Fishing Reports

trip to little watatic Fishing Report May 25, 2009

trip to little watatic

little watatic ashburnham ma. -

spent a couple hours out fishing with my son took the 2 of us to land this fish it had me all tied up in a dead limb and weeds without his help untang...

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another trip to little watatic Fishing Report Jun 05, 2009

another trip to little watatic

little watatic ashburnham ma. -

took another trip up the road to little watatic had a blast i was there about 15minutes and caught a nice 4lbs 2oz largemouth bass.went around the poi...

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Quick trip with the girls Fishing Report Jul 07, 2015

Quick trip with the girls

Lake Watatic, Ashburnham, MA -

I didn't do much fishing on this trip. I spent my time fixing lures and re-rigging them after they were pulled through the weeds, or positioning ...

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Watatic Weekend Fishing Report Jul 06, 2015

Watatic Weekend

Lake Watatic, Ashburnham, MA -

A weekend away means dad will play! Many short (1-2 hour) trips over the weekend out at Watatic in Ashburnham. Shoving off from our camp, I was maki...

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Fishing with the Kids Fishing Report Jun 11, 2015

Fishing with the Kids

Lake Watatic, Ashburnham, MA -

I took the kids out last weekend for a little romp around Lake Watatic. We all caught something, so they were happy, though they would have liked a b...

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6/16/13 fathers day fishin  Fishing Report Jun 19, 2013

6/16/13 fathers day fishin

wilton nh -

got a few lazy bass late afternoon Sunday. They love the motor oil 1/4 oz SK jig w/ SK summer craw trailer...

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Baits and Tackle used near New Ipswich

Check Prices

  • senko
  • texes rigged senko
  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • plastics
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
  • smoke red flake senkos
  • wacky worms and spinnerbaits
  • Green with gold belly swim bait.
  • 6" Senkos

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • 5 inch yellow perch
  • 10 inch fat yellow perchy! Bigger the bait.......
  • dilly worms
  • Shinners
  • Perch work the best or Big Shinners
  • Big Shinner
  • Pike shinners, again
  • Big Shinners
    Castmasters

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

Tube Check Prices

  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • pike shinners, 5 to 7 inches long
  • Large shiners
  • actually it was a pumkinseed i had caught there, it got away and the bass bit the hook
  • on bottom rigs and bobbers
  • Medium shiner
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • jitterbug
  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • red

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Swimming the frog through the pads
  • 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.
  • Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • 1/4 ounce
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Gold Vibrafox #2

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • EHC

Worm Check Prices

  • gary yattamotto seko black siver flake
  • senko
  • Black or Brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or Brown with Chartreuse tail
  • Black or brown body with Chartreuse tail
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Senko and Dropshot
  • Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • senkos

Craw Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • shallow running crank baits
  • many different types of lures thrown here will catch the fish
  • 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
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • shallow running crank bait minus one.
  • rapala wounded minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Crawfish style.
  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • brown

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • 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
  • KVD 5" Caffeine Shad - Light Blue with Silver belly.
  • white
  • 4" strike king shadalicious on 4/0 eighth ozgmakatsu swimbait hook.cant remember the color name but its purpletop with silver belly

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.
  • Eagle Claw Trout Spinner with #4 hook and a Dillie worm.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • silver&blue kastmaster

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait
  • Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub
    Booyah Frog

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

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.
  • yellow rubber powerbait eggs

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