Fish Pond Fishing Guide, Coos County, New Hampshire

• Overview

  Fish Pond is one of the Coos County listings for New Hampshire. The setting is pine and birch. It runs to roughly 39 acres — big enough to hold fish away from the bank, small enough to learn. The full circuit measures close to 0.9 miles on foot. Colebrook is the closest town at 2.7 miles. Stratford lies 14 miles off, Groveton another 18 miles. Local rules may differ a few miles either side of here.

• Where to Fish on Fish Pond

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Records held for Coos County cover rainbow trout, brown trout, rainbow smelt and Atlantic salmon. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. On Fish Pond that means starting tight and working out.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 12°F to 64°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. After mid April the shallows warm and the fish move up. Break-up near mid April, freeze-up near early December: that is the shape of an average year. The open run goes from the thaw to the freeze, and April through October covers most of it. Anyone fishing Fish Pond regularly works to that calendar.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. You can launch: the ramp is half a mile away. Parking is mapped about half a mile from the bank. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. Failing this one, try Lime Pond, 1.1 miles away. Check the position on Fish Pond before loading the car.