Fishing near Plastow 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: 189
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 490
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School of perch! near Plastow

School of perch!

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One of many perch caught near Plastow

One of many perch caught

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Did someone say perch? near Plastow

Did someone say perch?

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Top Fishing Spots near Plastow

Blunts Pond
Blunts Pond

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Frye Pond
Frye Pond

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Country Pond
Country Pond

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Lake Pentucket
Lake Pentucket

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Powwow River
Powwow River

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Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake

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Plastow Area Fish Species

Recent Plastow Fishing Reports

Ice ice baby Fishing Report Dec 31, 2012

Ice ice baby

Private pond -

Went to my buddy's house in New Hampshire over the weekend. Did some ice fishing! And tried out my New agua vu under water camera.
I was hopin...

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Puddle Fishin Fishing Report Oct 29, 2009

Puddle Fishin

haverhill -

stop here every now and then on my way home from work.. not really expecting much. just shore fishin hooked up a 2 anda half pounder out with a senk...

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Spring Trout Fishing Report Mar 28, 2013

Spring Trout

Lake Pentuckett, MA -

Caught 6 nice rainbows today....

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fishing with the lil guy Fishing Report Jun 15, 2012

fishing with the lil guy

round pond haverhill ma -

cartop only u will need to carry your boat in...

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spring trout Fishing Report Mar 30, 2013

spring trout

Pentucket lake -

headed out too Pentucket lake to do a little shore fishing today..Threw some spoons for for about 2 hours and caught one rainbow about 14 inches long...

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Country Pond Fishing Report Jun 03, 2014

Country Pond

Kingston Nh -

Mid day trip on Memorial day weekend. Off private beach. 1 lb mouth, 5 chain pickerel....

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Baits and Tackle used near Plastow

Check Prices

  • culprut and gary
  • White Power Eggs
  • White power eggs.
  • Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
    Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
    WCB Scopex pop-ups
    various Dat food Doughs
    chickj peas
    Sweet/spicy method mix
  • medium golden shiners from merrimac sports
  • Strike King Black Spinnerbait
  • We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.

  • Chicks Peas are slamming them right now. Pescaviva corn trout pellet flavored is also producing. We always have DAT food as well and Maple peas
  • This time around we kept it simple. Chick peas, Dat food and a good anise/pepper ground mix did the trick.
  • Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

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
  • orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures

    strike king crankbait

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live minnows
  • Live Minnows
  • Live Shiner
  • hooked through back on tipup
  • 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.
  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • pinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • hit while sinking
  • Baby bass lizard
  • YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-Go
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 8" & 10" Largemouth
  • Caffiene Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Dark Colors
  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
    1-1/2lber on a craw

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
  • Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets
  • Jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
  • White Rooster Tail
  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • 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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts
  • Non-Keeper
  • Sabiki rig, white
  • cast masters and diamond jig

Nymph Check Prices

  • Gold bead head Prince black

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • reeled real slow, weightless
  • just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
  • Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
    White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
  • texas rig
  • Wacky Senko Worm
  • Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.
  • Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
  • PowerBait rubber worm
  • 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We each caught 5 Keepers each.
    Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.

    I also had three 1-1/4lbers
  • Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
  • 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

  • 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
  • Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
  • Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
  • 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
    3/4lb on Rage Frog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

    Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
  • sluggos
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • 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 it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt
  • Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
  • 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
  • Ice Jig
  • 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
  • Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • dark colored with red
    Strike king #3
  • and senkos too
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • #3 crank bait dark colored
  • KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
  • Silver shad crank
  • Bluegill squarebill cranks
  • Blue gill crankbait
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • bucky's/sluggos/worms
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • 1st was 1lb 6oz
    2nd was 1-1/4lb
    3rd was 1-3/4lb
  • All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig

    1st was 2lb 10oz
    2nd was 1lb 7oz
    3rd was 1lb

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

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

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

  • Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.

    Off the bottom.
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
  • 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. To be expected with Catfish.
  • Silver 2-way spinner hook.
  • 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.
  • Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

Herring Check Prices

  • chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Daredevil
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • chartruce and whit chatter bait
  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • micro King

Grub Check Prices

  • Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
  • just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
  • Shiners
  • Maple-Banana Maize
    Pescaviva sweet corn
    Chicks
    Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  • Dog food boilie
  • Canned Corn
  • again oatmeal
  • Bread
  • Our sualy bait bucket include feed corn, maple peas, chick peas, dat food boilies, luncheon meat and a good ground/chum mix.

    Our Ground/chum mixes tend to include bread crumb, oats, cream corn, birdseed

    Chick peas were tearing them up here. Few off Dat food as well but the Chicks were definitely looked for and taken readily.

  • Sucker Punch Bait Lead Free Micro Shad dart, pink 1/32 oz, pink with silver flash

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