Fishing near Barrington in Strafford County, NH

3.55 Rating based on 52 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Tiger Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Chain Pickerel, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 113
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 191
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3.1 lb on a 5 inch Watermelon dinger
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A water impoundment in the Bellamy River Wildlife Management Area in Dover, NH.
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Locke's Falls, Isinglass River, Barrington, New Hampshire
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2 Kayakers on Ayers Pond!
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Top Fishing Spots near Barrington

Swains Lake
Swains Lake

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Bellamy River
Bellamy River

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

Isinglass River
Isinglass River

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Stonehouse Pond
Stonehouse Pond

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Ayers Pond
Ayers Pond

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Cocheco River
Cocheco River

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Barrington Area Fish Species

Recent Barrington Fishing Reports

Swains Lake Fishing Report Aug 03, 2011

Swains Lake

Swains Lake NH -

My Son and I spent 4 hours on Swains Lake in NH. 30 Fish total. We each got 15. Biggest was 3.1, also had 2 come in at 3. Almost 50-50 mix of large an...

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 ...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Swain's Lake Fishing Report Sep 13, 2011

Swain's Lake

Swains Lake -

Bass Fishing on Swain's Lake, Went out on Swains lake while camping at Barrington Shore's Campground. Went out on a couple of small trips whi...

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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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Big bass at the Madbury Res. Fishing Report Jul 29, 2009

Big bass at the Madbury Res.

Madbury Res. on 9 west. -

Nice location just on the outskirts of town. Real clean, no trash just good fishing.

Bass weight? I don't own a scale. Measured 23 inche...

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Baits and Tackle used near Barrington

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  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • live, rubber, spinner
  • All types of baits
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • 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.
  • Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
  • Green Lizards
  • just used plain worms.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel
  • fishing bottom with hand dug worms
  • Fresh live mackeral

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

  • 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.
  • Here is the first pickerel I caught. Came up early in the day. Nice to have some action early to keep you interested. As usual, it took a live shiner.
  • This is the first fish I have ever caught using a tip-up device. My other ice fishing catches were done using my normal bass road sitting by a single hole in the ice. I much prefer to do things this way! It was just a small Chain Pickerel however. For bait we were using some live shiners we bought at a local shop. This is also the first time I have ever used those!
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • rebel popr
  • jitterbug
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler

Lizard Check Prices

  • Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
  • hit while sinking
  • Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.
  • Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
  • 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.
  • I used those blue lizards again in this shallow area. They always seem to produce well in this lake one way or the other.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene 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
  • 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
  • Giant white double bladed buzzbait

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • powerbait nuggets

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
  • 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.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • cast masters and diamond jig

Worm Check Prices

  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
  • wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • Wacky-rigged yum dinger
  • berkley gulp power bait nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 with a bobber.
  • Just any worm
  • wacky-rigged yamamoto dinger
  • black/silver flake senko
  • black/silverflake senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark senko texas rigged

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • phoebe lure
  • mepps #3 trebble hook
  • sluggos

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

  • silver,green skirt

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • deep runner crankbait....
  • minnow looking crankbait....
  • Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
  • Strike King sexy shad 2.5
  • minnow type Lure
  • tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
  • 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

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

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
  • nightcrawler on a bobber above the dam. without a bobber below the dam where i had the most luck
  • on a bobber
  • nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • with a colorado blade leader
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • fished a nightcrawler with a bobber

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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • micro King
  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

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
  • 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!
  • clams

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