Fishing near Ossipee in Carroll County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 107
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 90
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Here's a view of the Beech River in Ossipee, NH.
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Check out this view of Big Dan's Hole!
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Big Dan's Hole!
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Evening Smallmouth near Ossipee

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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Smallmouth! near Ossipee

Smallmouth!

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Giant Pickerel near Ossipee

Giant Pickerel

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Top Fishing Spots near Ossipee

Duncan Lake
Duncan Lake

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Beech River
Beech River

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White Pond
White Pond

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Pine River
Pine River

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Hutchins Pond
Hutchins Pond

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Dan Hole Pond
Dan Hole Pond

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Ossipee Area Fish Species

Recent Ossipee Fishing Reports

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 ...

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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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Family weekend Fishing Report Aug 01, 2013

Family weekend

Pine River Pond NH -

lil family weekend in the NH.. only 30 of us staying in a 3br house.. UGH... took my nieces out on the boat for an hr or so fishing.. just bobbers and...

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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...

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Gee thanks Bearcamp River Fishing Report Aug 28, 2015

Gee thanks Bearcamp River

Bearcamp River, NH -

On our little camping trip to Tamworth, New Hampshire, I found a spot on the bearcamp river for my brother and I to try fishing one morning, hopefully...

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Wentworth Lake N.H. Fishing Report Jun 27, 2012

Wentworth Lake N.H.

Lake Wentworth N.H. -

Yea I should put this on the N.H. Finder but it seems as though all those guys want to share is recipes, so...

Bvba tourny went to Wentworth La...

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Baits and Tackle used near Ossipee

Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • 15 feet off ground
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • zoom Chartruese lizard
  • I used those blue lizards again in this shallow area. They always seem to produce well in this lake one way or the other.
  • I caught this little guy on the same rig that I caught the Smallmouth on. A blue lizard texas rig.
  • I caught this on the same type of blue lizard that I have been hammering the Largemouth with. I was twitching it along the rocky bottom when this guy decided to play.
  • Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
  • Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.
  • zoom 6" pumpkinseed
  • Same as train track 2

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
  • 1st was 6"
    2nd was 1-1/2lbs
    3rd was 10"
  • While plying the northern end of the lake by the mouths of the inlet streams, I tossed around one of those Joe's "Fly Spinners." While I didn't get any trout, it turns out that Sunnies and yellow perch couldn't get enough of it!
  • Also included in mess of fish attacking the fly spinner was this large sunfish. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure which species it is. I'm guessing it's a Bluegill, due to it's size and lack of red on the gill cover, or blue "war paint." I forgot how much fun catching these fish on light tackle was! The picture is not so good, but it was dark and this was the best I could do.

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 6" Green Brown Pumpkin Senko
  • Wacky rigged Senkos

    Green Pumkin or Bk/ BL
  • 5" Yum Dinger Black/blue flake
  • 5" Yum Dinger black/blue flake
  • Dropshot - 1-1/4lb and a 11"er
  • berkley gulp power bait nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 with a bobber.
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • 1st was 1-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 14oz
  • 2 decent sized red worms sent to the bottom.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

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

    Also 2 shorts
  • Dropshot, and C-Rig
    4 Keepers, and 2 Shorts
  • senkos
  • 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"
  • Shakey Head - a 1lber and two 10"ers
  • Drop Shot, and Shakeyhead all between 15"-12"

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

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

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

  • half a nightcrawler on a #8 hook with spinner and bead rig. had a swivel and weight about a 12" up
  • it was getting late sun was just about down and we started catching Brown Bullheads
  • half of a live nightcrawlers on a #8 hook with 2 splitshots 18" up on line
  • caught 6 on nightcrawlers and 1 on phoebe lure
  • trolling with half a nightcrawler about 100 feet behind boat.i had on some weight,swivel,beads,spinner with a #8 hook.i had him hooked on the lip
  • 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.
  • caught 1 bluegill off a nightcrawler.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook

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

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • I was using the same jig/nightcrawler combintion as last time.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
  • Worms & Orange Powerbait.

    Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
  • Rainbow Powerbait.
  • Curious about the trout-like fish I always see swimming by the boat ramp, I tossed in some powerbait on a light rod to see what they were. Turns out, they were some suckers! You know, they fight pretty hard for their size. I'll keep this spot in mind the next time I need some lake trout bait!
  • Squid

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