Fishing near North Hampton in Rockingham County, NH

3.54 Rating based on 84 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Common Carp, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 96
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 146
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North Hampton Fishing Photos

The Place near North Hampton

The Place

These guys will always try and get you on fish
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Our cooler full near North Hampton

Our cooler full

Didn't take long to fill the cooler, then we started filling totes
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North Hampton fishing photo 2

We filled this one and one other.
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Blood bath, slaughter near North Hampton

Blood bath, slaughter

Blood was everywhere making the deck slippery.
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The Filleting started. near North Hampton

The Filleting started.

The mates started filleting fish in the middle of the trip.
they were filleting fish for three more hours after we docked. Remember it was a 2 hour ride in
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Waiting in line near North Hampton

Waiting in line

These are fish waiting to be filleted at the dock.

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Top Fishing Spots near North Hampton

Little River
Little River

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Taylor River
Taylor River

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
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Rye Harbor
Rye Harbor

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1014

Exeter Reservoir
Exeter Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5533

Hampton Harbor
Hampton Harbor

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 2
Views: 4591

Exeter River
Exeter River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9150

North Hampton Area Fish Species

Recent North Hampton Fishing Reports

Fishing with A Fishing Report Jun 01, 2011

Fishing with A

Batchelders Pond, hampton nh -

kid trip...

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Commercial Striper Fishing Fishing Report Jul 14, 2011

Commercial Striper Fishing

MA/NH/ME coast -

Went out on my buddy's boat for stripers. He has a commercial permit in mass so we were right on the NH border throwing live mackerel and chummin...

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Hampton Harbor, 3 June 11 Fishing Report Jun 06, 2011

Hampton Harbor, 3 June 11

Hampton Harbor area. Marshes. -

First Striper Bass trip...

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exeter reservoir Fishing Report Apr 30, 2009

exeter reservoir

exeter, nh -

nice place to fish .... alot of over hang ..... the hospital side is really good...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Pollock fishing in November  Fishing Report Nov 22, 2008

Pollock fishing in November

Sea Brook NH -

Did a charter for some Pollock with a group of guys on one of the Eastman's Boats. They are located in Seabrook New Hampshire.
Headed down with...

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Striped Bass, Hampton Fishing Report Jun 13, 2011

Striped Bass, Hampton

Hampton Harbor Inlet -

Great day on the water in Hampton Harbor. Fished the high tide. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near North Hampton

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  • rubber worms worked the best
  • 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.
  • Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • Clams or seaworms
  • Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
  • Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.
  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • culprut and gary

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Fresh live mackeral
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Mackerel
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.
  • Clams
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss
  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Tube Check Prices

  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live minnow
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • hooked through back on tipup
  • Live Minnows
  • Live Shiner

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Bone Zara spook

Lizard Check Prices

  • hit while sinking

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • Dark Colors
  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • cast masters and diamond jig
  • Giant swedish pimple
  • Non-Keeper
  • shad darts

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

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
  • Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
    White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • reeled real slow, weightless
  • just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
  • texas rig
  • Wacky Senko Worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged

Soft Baits Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Spinnerbait
  • Rooster Tail
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • sluggos

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt
  • Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
  • 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties

Crankbait Check Prices

  • #3 crank bait dark colored
  • and senkos too
  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • Silver shad crank
  • Blue gill crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

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.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
  • Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
  • Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.
  • Sent to the bottom.

Herring Check Prices

  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
    1st was 25"
    2nd was 20"
  • Calms - All Between 10"-12"
  • Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
  • Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
  • Calms - 25" and a 18"
  • Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • micro King
  • Daredevil

Live Baits Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • clams
  • Bread
  • Clam
  • clam
  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
  • clams for bait, catching doubles all day
  • Maple-Banana Maize
    Pescaviva sweet corn
    Chicks
    Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.

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