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Trout Fishing in New Hampshire

Trout Fishing Records

Trout fishing in New Hampshire is in every type and color from a graceful multi-colored brook trout, a jumping rainbow trout or feisty brown trout, there is a pond or stream within a decent driving distance for most anglers professional or novice.  

New Hampshire is home to a number of trout ponds that are managed strictly for trout and are closed to ice fishing.  Lucas Pond it Northwood is an example. Ponds managed for trout may be stocked with one or more species, with age classes ranging from yearlings (8-12 inches) to 2-year olds (12-15 inches), with weights up to 1-1.5 pounds!

There is over 12,000 miles of stocked trout rivers and streams available for anglers provided by the state's successful and generous fish stocking program.  Wild trout do exist and just awaiting for the angler who is willing to take a walk through uncharted forests to get to them with nearly 50 remote trout ponds that New Hampshire Fish and Game annually stocks with fingerlings  via helicopter.  These fingerling brook trout often grow to 8-10 inches by their second growing season, and it's not unusual to pull in a monster 15 inches or longer. Trophy, remote-pond brook trout (three or more years old, some in excess of 17 inches) can be caught in select backcountry waters for the serious.

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Below is a chart of lakes and ponds stocked with Trout and open year round.

NH Lakes and Ponds Stocked with Trout and Open Year Round
Akers Pond, Big Errol Coos Rainbow Trout
Armington Lake Piermont/Warren Grafton Rainbow Trout
Beaver Lake Derry Rockingham Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Beech Pond, Lower Tuftonboro/Wolfeboro Carroll Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Bog Pond Campton Grafton Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Bow Lake Strafford Strafford Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Canaan Street Lake Canaan Grafton Rainbow Trout
Canobie Lake Windham Rockingham Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Catamount Pond Allenstown Merrimack Brook Trout
Cedar Pond Milan Coos Rainbow Trout
Chocorua Lake Tamworth Carroll Rainbow Trout
Christine Lake Stark Coos Brown Trout
Clark Pond Canaan Grafton Rainbow Trout
Conservation Pond Wentworth Grafton Brook Trout
Copps Pond Tuftonboro Carroll Brook Trout
Crystal Lake Gilmanton Belknap Rainbow Trout
Crystal Lake Eaton Carroll Brown Trout
Crystal Lake Enfield Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Cummins Pond Dorchester Grafton Brown Trout
Dan Hole Pond, Little Ossipee Carroll Brook Trout
Davis Pond Madison Carroll Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Deering Reservoir Deering Hillsborough Rainbow Trout
Durand Pond Randolph Coos Brook Trout
Fish Pond Columbia Coos Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Forest Lake Winchester Cheshire Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Franklin Pierce Lake Hillsborough Hillsborough Rainbow Trout / Brown trout
French Pond Haverhill Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Gould Pond Hillsborough Hillsborough Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Gustin Pond Marlow Cheshire  Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Higher Ground Pond Wentworth Grafton Brook Trout
Highland Lake Andover Merrimack Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Horace Lake Weare Hillsborough Brown Trout
Hutchins Mill Pond Effingham Carroll Brook Trout
Iona Lake Albany Carroll Rainbow Trout
Island Pond Washington Sullivan Brown Trout
Island Pond, Big Derry Rockingham Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Joe Coffin Pond Sugar Hill Grafton Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Kezar Lake Sutton Merrimack Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Kolelemook Lake Springfield Sullivan Brown Trout
Laurel Lake Fitzwilliam Cheshire Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Loon Lake Freedom Carroll Rainbow Trout
Lougee Pond Barnstead Belknap Brown Trout
Lovell Lake Wakefield Carroll Rainbow Trout
Manning Lake Gilmanton Belknap Brook Trout
Martin Meadow Pond Lancaster Coos Rainbow Trout
Mascoma Lake Enfield/Lebanon Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Massabesic Lake Auburn/Manchester Rockingham Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Mill Pond Ossipee Carroll Brook Trout
Mirror Lake Woodstock Grafton Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Moody Pond Ossipee Carroll Brook Trout
Newell Pond Alstead Cheshire Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Ogontz Lake Lyman Grafton Rainbow Trout
Opechee Lake Laconia Belknap Rainbow Trout
Pea Porridge, Big Madison Carroll Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Pea Porridge, Little Madison Carroll Brown Trout
Pearl Lake Lisbon Grafton Rainbow Trout
Pleasant Lake Deerfield Rockingham Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Post Pond Lyme Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Pout Pond Belmont Belknap Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
South Pond Stark Coos Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout
Stinson Lake Rumney Grafton Rainbow Trout
Streeter Pond Sugar Hill Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Sunapee Lake, Little New London Merrimack Rainbow Trout
Tarleton Lake Piermont Grafton Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Tewksbury Pond Grafton Grafton Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Tower Hill Pond Auburn/Candia Rockingham Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Warren Lake Alstead Cheshire Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Waukewan Lake Meredith Belknap Rainbow Trout
Webster Lake Franklin Merrimack Rainbow Trout / Brown Trout
Wentworth Lake Wolfeboro Carroll Rainbow Trout
White Lake Tamworth Carroll Brook Trout
Whitten Pond Tuftonboro Carroll Brook Trout
Willand Pond Somersworth Strafford Rainbow Trout
Winnepocket Lake Webster Merrimack Rainbow Trout
Winona Lake New Hampton Belknap Brook Trout / Rainbow Trout

 

For more information about the great fishing in New Hampshire visit https://wildlife.state.nh.us/fishing/

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Video on Fishing in NH

 

Here is a video on fishing by the state . https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=blw3OkYL4aw&feature=emb_logo

 

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