Upper Beech Pond Fishing near Tuftonboro, New Hampshire

• Overview

  Upper Beech Pond sits within Carroll County in New Hampshire. The water sits 994 feet up. Around 144 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. There is roughly 2.2 miles of shoreline here, which is a short walk end to end. Nearest town is Tuftonboro, 3.4 miles off. It is 47 miles to Manchester, the nearest city. No boundary runs near, so the county rules hold throughout.

• Where to Fish on Upper Beech Pond

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Public occurrence data for Carroll County names rainbow trout, brown trout, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt and Atlantic salmon. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. On Upper Beech Pond a short move beats a long cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The warm month here averages 68°F; the cold one sits at 18°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. After early April the shallows warm and the fish move up. Break-up sits around early April on average, with the water closing again about mid December. The strong weeks are the first after break-up and the last before the freeze. Time your trip to Upper Beech Pond by conditions rather than dates.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. No dam controls it, and the level follows the season. The water borders Upper Beech Pond, so expect the reserve rules to apply. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lower Beech Pond, 1.5 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat Upper Beech Pond as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.