Fishing near Keene, NH
Seat of Cheshire County in southwestern New Hampshire, Keene sits on the Ashuelot River — its home water, a 64-mile tributary of the Connecticut River that runs cold-water trout fishing up high and warm-water bass and pickerel down low, supporting roughly 15 resident species. NH Fish & Game's Region 4 headquarters is based here, and bigger water lies close by: Spofford Lake about 10 miles west and the Connecticut River some 15–20 miles west.
Top waters to fish near Keene
Connecticut River
Ashuelot River
Silver Lake
Contoocook River
Sunapee Lake
Millers River
North Branch River
Sugar River
Wachusett Reservoir
Merrimack River
Species & education
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Alewife
Alosa pseudoharengus
American Eel
Anguilla rostrata
American Shad
Alosa sapidissima
Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic Sturgeon
Acipenser oxyrinchus
Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Blueback Herring
Alosa aestivalis
Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Bluegill Sunfish
Lepomis macrochirus
Bowfin
Amia calva
Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
Brown Bullhead
Ameiurus nebulosus
Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
Burbot
Lota lota
Chain Pickerel
Esox niger
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