Fishing near Nottingham in Rockingham County, NH

3.56 Rating based on 79 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Pollock
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 124
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 261
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Nottingham Fishing Photos

Nice day near Nottingham

Nice day

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Cool morning near Nottingham

Cool morning

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Pawtuckaway Sunfish! near Nottingham

Pawtuckaway Sunfish!

First day fishing at Pawtuckaway. Fed a bunch of small sunfish and finally caught this pumpkinseed! Used Nightcrawlers
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Pawtuckaway Sunfish! near Nottingham

Pawtuckaway Sunfish!

I must've fed a whole family of sunfish until this Bluegill finally took a bite. Used nightcrawlers.
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White Perch Pawtuckaway 2014 near Nottingham

White Perch Pawtuckaway 2014

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Pawtuckaway 2014 near Nottingham

Pawtuckaway 2014

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Top Fishing Spots near Nottingham

Pawtuckaway Pond
Pawtuckaway Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 9736

Stonehouse Pond
Stonehouse Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Views: 1408

Swains Lake
Swains Lake

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

Pawtuckaway River
Pawtuckaway River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1307

Bellamy River
Bellamy River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 6711

Lamprey River
Lamprey River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 6327

Nottingham Area Fish Species

Recent Nottingham Fishing Reports

Pawtuckaway 7/16/11 Fishing Report Jul 17, 2011

Pawtuckaway 7/16/11

Pawtuckaway lake N.H. -

Club tourny at Pawtuckaway lake on a bright Sunny July Day Started out extremely slow as my partner Lee and I did not so much as have a tap or anythin...

Avg. Rating: 5
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july 4th bash Fishing Report Jul 05, 2009

july 4th bash

Lee NH -

18 inch Horned pout...

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First bass of 2012 Fishing Report Jul 14, 2012

First bass of 2012

Pawtuckaway Lake -

I went back to Pawtuckaway State Park after they opened for the season, so I could drive all the way in to the beach. I fished on either side of it an...

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Pawtuckaway Lake (NH) Fishing Report Sep 14, 2009

Pawtuckaway Lake (NH)

Pawtuckaway Lake -

What a weekend! Started out Friday evening after work, met up with my fiance, Lynn, and started heading up to New Hampshire. The first stop was Mark...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Swains Lake Fishing Report Jun 27, 2011

Swains Lake

Swains Lake, NH -

Fished Swains lake for a few hours Sunday morning. Slow day, landed only a few Largemouth....

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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 ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Nottingham

Check Prices

  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • All types of baits
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • Green Lizards
  • rubber worms worked the best
  • just used plain worms.
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • pinners
  • Live Minnows
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • rebel popr
  • jitterbug
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • Bone Zara spook

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

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Dark Colors

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • black/yellow heddon spook

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
  • Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • cast masters and diamond jig

Worm Check Prices

  • Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • Just any worm
  • black/silver flake senko
  • black /silver flake senko
  • black/silverflake senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged
  • white zoom flukes
    green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.

    booyah boo jog / craw trailer
  • zoom white flukes
  • white zoom fluke

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • sluggos
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • mepps
  • mepps #2
  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Rooster Tail
  • Spinnerbait
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade

Craw Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish Lure
  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish lure
  • i used the bigger crawfish Lure this time
  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • minnow looking crankbait....
  • 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.
  • and senkos too
  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3
  • #3 crank bait dark colored
  • deep runner crankbait....
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

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
  • with a colorado blade leader
  • colorado blade leader
  • bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.
  • Nightcrawlers
  • i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
  • Nightcrawlers and Snails with a bobber.
  • Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.

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.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • micro King
  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • Daredevil
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Worm

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • worms and powerbait
  • power bait baby
  • worms and P.bait
  • clams
  • Shiners
  • Bread
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it

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