Pemigewasset River, New Hampshire Fishing Report
First Brookies On The Pemigewasset River
Although I caught a lot of rainbows during my trip to Lincoln, my main focus had been on brookies, a trout I had never caught before. The river ran directly behind where we were staying, and we were fishing the cold, rocky waters within minutes of arriving. I started out with a Phoebe spoon while my brother used a panther martin. He caught his first before I caught mine, and I followed with my first minutes later. I instantly loved the fish as soon as I caught my first one. I caught the rest of my brookies, however, on trout magnet jigs, recommended to me by a lot of MAFF members (thanks to those guys). I got lots of them dragging the jig in the current using a float in pools. The amount of fish I caught increased exponentially; I caught more and more fish as I learned where to look for them and how to better recognize where the fish were. With every one my newfound love for the species had grown. I ended up catching more brookies than rainbows through the whole trip. I captured it all on my gopro, and would appreciate if you guys checked out the edited video that I attached. Through my trip, I learned just how well Trout Magnets work, and brook trout are now one of my favorite species to catch.
Video URL: https://youtu.be/2heAp7mBVDo
- Added By: baystateangler on 07/26/15 06:46 PM
- Location: Pemigewasset River, New Hampshire
- Report Date: 7/23/2015 - 7/25/2015
- # of Hotspots: 1
- # of Photos: 2
- # of Fish Caught: 8
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First Ever Brookies Catch
- # of Fish Caught: 8
- Water Type: freshwater
- Type of Fish: Brook Trout
- Bait Type: Panfish Jig Check Prices
- Bait Details: Trout magnet 1/64 ounce jig with a white split-tail grub.
- Location Details: Stretch of river behind Indian Head Resort.
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Nice fish man!
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I'd like to get into some bigger sized ones. I like my spinning gear, too.
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I think you would have more fun catching fish of that size on a 6wt fly rod.
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Good luck Dan! The pemi is a great river for brookies, rainbows, and browns. I've only caught brookies on the river, but those other fish are out there. There's also some nice salmon, but I think they're fly fishing only. Tight lines!
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Im up at newfound lake and an old fisherman told me about a secret spot on the pemmi around exit 23. Going to try it this week. been catching some great smallies on newfound but going to try for some trout.
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Wow dude that's a great fish. We were going to NH anyway for a family vacation and it happened to be on a pretty good trout spot, so I took advantage of the circumstances. I have been itching to get out to western mass, as well, hopefully for my first brown. I think I'll have better luckcatching a brown or a nice brookie out west on a good river than a laker out of Wachusett in one trip. I've been planning a trip in that direction for a while, and I'm leaning toward going for the browns.
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Great fish !!! Lots of fun on the magnets ....Why go north for fish when we have some beauties in Western Mass ?
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I stayed up at indian head resort with my family. I think it's a little north of loon mt. The place had a pond in the back with NICE rainbows and the pemi ran right behind the place and was maybe a two minute walk. Said part of the river was stacked with brookies, little ones, but fine by me since I hadn't caught them before going into the trip. I'm going back up to NH in a couple weeks but much farther east and I'm hoping to get into my first brown.
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I LOVE IT UP THERE!!! i havent fished it in a while! never caught any bows but a bunch of brookies! some biggons to.
where did you stay?? loon mt?
