Fishing near Manchester, NH

Set in Hillsborough County, Manchester sits along the Merrimack River, which carves through the historic Amoskeag Falls downtown and drains more than 5,000 square miles of inland New Hampshire. The reach offers an underutilized urban warmwater fishery for trophy smallmouth, largemouth, carp, and pike, while Lake Massabesic—a 2,560-acre reservoir just east of the city—and the Piscataquog River add lake and tributary options.