Fishing near Windham in Rockingham County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Common Carp, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 203
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 548
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Top Fishing Spots near Windham

Canobie Lake
Canobie Lake

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Shadow Lake
Shadow Lake

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Ezekiel Pond
Ezekiel Pond

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Robinson Pond
Robinson Pond

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Millville Lake
Millville Lake

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Arlington Mill Reservoir
Arlington Mill Reservoir

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Windham Area Fish Species

Recent Windham Fishing Reports

Sunday with no Kids Fishing Report Jun 09, 2014

Sunday with no Kids

Fosters Pond, Windham NH -

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The Bite was on Fishing Report May 14, 2013

The Bite was on

Canobie Lake, NH -

Second weekend in Canobie and the water temps finally reached a suitable level for spawning to being. The bass were very active in the shallows, up n...

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Fishing on Canobie Fishing Report Jun 10, 2013

Fishing on Canobie

Canobie Lake, NH -

Spent a day off fishing Canobie Lake. Caught alot of bass and caught a bow trolling around the lake....

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Ice Fishing Canobie Lake Fishing Report Feb 17, 2013

Ice Fishing Canobie Lake

Canobie Lake, NH -

Braved the brutal wind and single digit temps on Canobie this morning. Had one Pickerel on a tip up. Didn't stay out long due to the weather. I...

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Canobie On the Pelican Fishing Report Aug 13, 2012

Canobie On the Pelican

Canobie Lake, NH -

Had the day to myself last Friday so I met up with a friend to do some fishing. We hit Canobie first. Was able to reel in a couple little guys befor...

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Canobie Ice Fishing - Late Feb. Fishing Report Feb 25, 2013

Canobie Ice Fishing - Late Feb.

Canobie Lake, NH -

Hit the ice at dawn. Had a good day with 7 Pickerel and one Bass between us. A good 12" of solid ice although there was area near us that was o...

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Baits and Tackle used near Windham

Check Prices

  • P.bait
  • tiki worms
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • i used corn
  • mepps lure
  • wacky rig garry yamamoto
  • Rooster Tail
  • White power eggs.
  • culprut and gary
  • White Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Clams

Creature Check Prices

  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

    white spinnerbait
  • My other 5 were:
    2lb 2oz
    two 1-1/2lbers
    two 1lbers
  • Green pumpkin sweet beaver
  • 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
  • Creature Bait on Shakey Head

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
  • Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • Live minnows
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • Live minnow
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • hooked through back on tipup

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • Bone Zara spook
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • FROG
  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • Black buzzbait with a black blade
  • MS Slammer hitch

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • hit while sinking
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
  • Fish back right of the pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go
  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • Dark Colors
  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • Trolling main channel
  • Jerkbait
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • White Rooster Tail
  • 1/4 ounce
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • 1st. 12in 12oz
    2nd. 11.5in 10oz
    3rd. 11.5in 9oz

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

  • Yamamoto!
  • Power Worm. Texas Rig.
  • Weedless Texas rig with a rubber Zoom watermelon worm. Switched to a powerbait worm. There are some giant bass in this lake. The biggest bass of the day never made it to the boat. It snapped my 8lb line during the fight.
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.
  • PowerBait rubber worm
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
  • Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
  • Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Dark senko texas rigged

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot
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  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • Rooster Tail
  • 6/30 on Rooster Tail
    7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
  • Spinnerbait
  • Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
  • Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
  • sluggos
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • Yum black/blue craw
  • Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • SPRO BBZ1

Jigs Check Prices

  • Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
  • silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Silver shad crank
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
  • 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.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig

    1st was 2lb 10oz
    2nd was 1lb 7oz
    3rd was 1lb
  • 1st was 1lb 6oz
    2nd was 1-1/4lb
    3rd was 1-3/4lb
  • same jig as before
  • 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • white

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Wolly Bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
  • I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hook.
  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • One whole crawler on a size 1/0 hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon Orange 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Sent to the bottom.
  • Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

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.
  • All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
  • Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • Daredevil
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Shiners
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
  • Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
  • Dog food boilie
  • i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce

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