Fishing near Durham in Strafford County, NH

3.58 Rating based on 57 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Atlantic Mackerel, Pollock, Striped Bass, Rainbow Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 99
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 141
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Durham Fishing Photos

Packers Falls near Durham

Packers Falls

Here's a pic of the set of falls known as Packers Falls on the Lamprey River! It can be a great swimming hole at times!
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Packers Falls near Durham

Packers Falls

Here's a pic of the area just below Packers Falls while the Lamprey River is at a high point.
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Packers Falls near Durham

Packers Falls

Here's the sign posted at the site of Packers Falls on the Lamprey River.
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cold feet and a nice fight near Durham

cold feet and a nice fight

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Decent Picky near Durham

Decent Picky

This is when I remembered I left my forceps in the truck... good thing I remembered the band aids!
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Here's lookin' at yah! near Durham

Here's lookin' at yah!

kind of gross but totally surprised me lol
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Top Fishing Spots near Durham

Oyster River
Oyster River

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"packers Falls"the Lamprey
"packers Falls"the Lamprey

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 12046

Little Bay
Little Bay

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# Reviews:
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Piscassic River
Piscassic River

Avg. Rating: 1
# Reviews: 1
Views: 3556

Great Bay
Great Bay

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Views: 2200

Squamscott River
Squamscott River

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Durham Area Fish Species

Recent Durham Fishing Reports

lamprey river 2010 Fishing Report Apr 20, 2010

lamprey river 2010

durham nh -

packers falls...

Avg. Rating: 4
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cold feet nice fight Fishing Report Sep 30, 2008

cold feet nice fight

Lamprey River -

came up here and man, all iced up... have to wait a couple more weeks .... before you can fish here...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Created by: troutluster
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packers falls  Fishing Report Jun 18, 2009

packers falls

Durham NH -

packers falls below the rapids...

Avg. Rating: 3
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packers falls again Fishing Report Jul 03, 2009

packers falls again

Durham NH -

american eel, large mouth bass (9 inches), Smallmouth bass (10 inches), perch...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Created by: hippiechick1976
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Good day , but an odd catch Fishing Report Jul 20, 2014

Good day , but an odd catch

Bellamy Reservoir , Barrington , NH -

Spent a half day out at Bellamy Reservoir in Barrington NH. Fairly productive day as I caught 11 bass 1 pickerel and an eyeball. Not Intentional mind ...

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Bellamy Resevoir Fishing Report Jun 20, 2011

Bellamy Resevoir

Bellamy Resevoir, Madbury NH -

Slow day on Bellamy Res., Fished for a few hours on Sunday morning with a friend. Only landed 3 small largemouth, nothing special....

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Baits and Tackle used near Durham

Check Prices

  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • 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.
  • rubber worms worked the best
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
  • Clams or seaworms
  • Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
  • Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel
  • Fresh live mackeral
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Mackerel on a baitrunner.
  • Clams

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • hit while sinking
  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • Dark Colors
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • 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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

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
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
    White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
  • Just any worm
  • just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • sluggos

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish Lure

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

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
  • Nightcrawlers
  • bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.

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.

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"

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • micro King

Live Baits Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • just some good old rainbow paste
  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
  • clams
  • Bread
  • Clam
  • clam
  • worms and powerbait
  • worms and P.bait
  • power bait baby
  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it

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