Fishing at Meetinghouse Pond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

• Overview

  You will find Meetinghouse Pond in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. The water sits 1,102 feet up. At about 49 acres, a day is enough to walk the shoreline properly. Bank access stretches around 1.4 miles in total. Marlborough is the closest place, 1.9 miles off. Troy is 4.2 miles away, with Swanzey at 5.2 miles. One jurisdiction covers this water end to end.

• Where to Fish on Meetinghouse Pond

  No depth figure appears in our records, so the bank has to tell you. A reservoir gives you a hard edge, a shelf, and not much else. Points where the flooded channel swings in are the reliable ones. Across Cheshire County, recorded fish include rainbow trout, brown trout, smallmouth bass and largemouth bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Meetinghouse Pond gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 68°F; the cold one sits at 19°F. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer and winter test it. The lid usually goes in early April, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early April and starts locking again about mid December. Right after break-up, and again as the nights sharpen, is when to go. Meetinghouse Pond runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. This sits inside Kensan-Devan Wildlife Sanctuary, so read the reserve notices first. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. The nearest alternative is Spectacle Pond, 3.2 miles out. Where Meetinghouse Pond is concerned, a local answer beats a written one.