Diamond Pond, New Hampshire: Fishing Spots and Seasons

• Overview

  Diamond Pond is set in Coos County, New Hampshire. The surroundings are pine and birch. Roughly 181 acres: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. The whole outline is near 2.3 miles, and most of it is walkable. It ranks high for size among our Coos County listings. You are 9.9 miles from Colebrook. The nearest city of size is Sherbrooke, 42 miles away. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Diamond Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Open biodiversity records for Coos County list rainbow trout, brown trout, rainbow smelt, Atlantic salmon and brook trout. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Diamond Pond fishes better once you know its edges.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 63°F in July and bottom out at 10°F in January. Expect a real winter and a strong spring after it. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. Open water usually runs from late April until about late November. Fishing peaks soon after break-up and again before the cold returns. Anyone fishing Diamond Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. Launch at Nugent Boat Ramp, half a mile from the water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Little Diamond Pond is 0.8 miles distant. Nothing here settles the position at Diamond Pond for certain.