Plan B: Pittsburg, NH’s Brook Trout Ponds

Fishing for brook trout on Pittsburg’s outer ponds can be a good option when things aren’t exactly clicking on the river or the lakes. N.H. Fish & Game stocked some of the ponds this week and the gates are open on some of the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters’s logging roads, but make sure you check the list because not all of them are open.

Coon Brook Bog (fly fishing only) looked especially inviting today, with a good hatch of size 14 BWO’s and rising trout hungrily feeding on them. Alas, I was up there checking the TTL row boat (one of the perks of staying with us is taking out our row boats gratis on the outer ponds where we have them), so I did not have a fly rod in hand. The road up there is rough, so make sure you’re driving a 4×4 with enough clearance if you go.

The roads in to both Round Pond (general rules) and Big Brook Bog (fly fishing only) were pretty good, so they should be targeted as well if you’re doing a tour of the ponds.

As you would expect, the best dry flies would be BWO patterns of all kinds, along with properly presented Adams. Hornbergs are usually solid too, along with Woolybuggers and streamers such as the Golden Demon and Mickey Finn when the fish aren’t showing themselves.

So far, Tall Timber has boats at the three ponds mentioned above and we’ll have a few more boats at other locations too, once the gates to those ponds open.