The views alone are worth the trip to New Hampshire never mind the excellent bass fishing that is has to offer. Wether you visit the Menadnock region or want to venture further north to the White Mountain region you will find plenty of places to find big Bass in New hampshire.

This article will highlight many of the popular bass fishing locations in New Hampshire as well as offer some useful tips and advice for bass fishing in and around New Hampshire. Some other popular species to try and fish for while in New Hampshire are Trout, Perch, Bluegill, Crappie, Salmon and Catfish. If you plan on visiting New Hampshire in the fall be sure to bring your camera as the fall foliage is breathtaking at this time of year.

Popular Bass Fishing Locations in New Hampshire

Below are a list of lakes and ponds in New Hampshire that are popular Bass fishing locations.

Akers Pond
Baboosic Lake
Back Lake
Bow Lake
Broad Bay
Canaan Street Lake
Canobie Lake
Cedar Pond
Chocorua Lake
Cobbetts Pond
Contoocook Lake
Conway Lake
Crystal Lake
Dublin Pond
Eastman Pond
Echo Lake
First Connecticut Lake
Fourth Connecticut Lake
Francis, Lake
Franklin Pierce Lake
Goose Pond
Grafton Pond
Great East Lake
Great Pond
Greenough Pond
Halfmoon Lake
Highland Lake
Hopkins Pond
Island Pond
Jenness Pond
Kanasatka, Lake
Lakes of the Clouds
Little Sunapee Lake
Locke Lake
Lonesome Lake
Lovell Lake
Mascoma Lake
Massabesic Lake
Mendums Pond
Merrymeeting Lake
Milton Pond
Mirror Lake
Newfound Lake
Northeast Pond
Northwood Lake
Nubanusit Lake
Opechee Bay
Ossipee Lake
Paugus Bay
Pawtuckaway Lake
Pemigewasset Lake
Penacook Lake
Pine River Pond
Pleasant Lake
Pleasant Lake
Powder Mill Pond
Powwow Pond
Profile Lake
Province Lake
Sebbins Pond
Second Connecticut Lake
Silver Lake
Silver Lake
Silver Lake
Skatutakee Lake
Solitude, Lake
Spofford Lake
Squam Lake
Stinson Lake
Stump Pond
Success Pond
Sunapee, Lake
Suncook Lakes
Sunrise Lake
Sunset Lake
Surry Mountain Lake
Swains Lake
Tarleton, Lake
Third Connecticut Lake
Thorndike Pond
Turkey Ponds
Umbagog Lake
Waukewan, Lake
Webster Lake
Wentworth, Lake
Wickwas Lake
Winnipesaukee, Lake
Winnisquam Lake

Bait Shops in New Hampshire

A J’s Bait & Tackle
23 Main St # B, Meredith, NH
(603) 279-3152
Storey’s Sport Shop
49 Winnisquam Avenue, Laconia, NH
(603) 524-2431
Mark’s Wholesale Bait Co: Retail Bait and Tackle Store
7 Brook Street, Nashua, NH
(603) 882-4934
Conways Bait & Tackle
187 Whittier Highway, Moultonborough, NH
(603) 253-6491
Waldron’s Dugout Wholesale Live Bait
183 Waukewan Street, Meredith, NH
(603) 279-4335
Hampton Harbor Tackle
1 Ocean Blvd # 1, Hampton, NH
(603) 926-1945

General Tips and Advice for Catching Bass

Bass will hide out in areas with natural or man made cover. Look for weed beds, tree limbs that have fallen in the water or large patches of Lilly pads. They are an ambush predator so they will wait in these areas until they spot a meal that swims by.

Early morning or late afternoon’s produce good fishing activity while bass fishing. Overcast days or other days with low light conditions produce good results. A few hours before sunset through a few hours after are the hours that produce best while Bass fishing.

In general the smaller bass’s diet consists more of small insects, whereas the larger adults consume small fish, frogs, salamanders, craw fish ect.

Rooster tails or spinner baits work well in low light days. My advice is to keep to the live bait whenever possible. Skimming a rubber frog over a pond that is covered by Lilly pads produces excellent and exciting results.

Tight lines and good luck Bass fishing in New Hampshire.