Fly Fishing NH's Connecticut Lakes Region

Category: Back Lake

Upper Connecticut River Fishing Report: 6/8

What a difference a week makes! From 85 – 90 degree, sunny and dry conditions last week to rainy and cold conditions this week, it’s done a complete 180 in fishing conditions for anglers. The fishing, especially on the Connecticut River, has been pretty good however, despite the change in the weather.

A New Season

We’re at the start of the trout fishing season yet again in New Hampshire, but that’s not altogether right. Fishing on the Connecticut River has been open since January 1, so some of us up here have been fishing right along through the mild winter that we just had. However, the season opens on all NH trout waters this Saturday, April 22.

Back Lake Hex Hatch Update: 6/25

We’re about half way through the annual hexagenia hatch on Back Lake and it’s been a great one so far. It has been true to form for the most part – a smattering of hexes hatching early on in the evening, but the real hatch begins as the sun sinks behind the hills to the west. That bit of darkening sky seems to bring the hexagenia out in full force, and needless to say, it does the same thing with the trout and bass.

A little love for bass …

This is going to be a controversial post for all of the trout snobs out there. It concerns the most recent addition to our Back Lake denizens of the deep: smallmouth and largemouth bass. Both species were illegally introduced to Back Lake at least twenty years ago, and at first it appeared to merely be a rumor of what had happened, but slowly we came to realize that there were indeed some of them residing, and flourishing, in Back Lake.

Back Lake Fishing Report: 7/4

Happy Independence Day everyone – we hope that you’re enjoying it with family or friends and thinking about all of the reasons that the U.S. is a special place to be. With the hexagenia hatch on Back Lake all but a memory now, you would think that the fishing on our lake is in the doldrums … not so!

Back Lake Fishing Report: 6/15

That’s long time TTL guest Mike Casavant with a beauty of a rainbow that he took on Back Lake recently. The fishing on the lake has been pretty solid recently, but for those of you waiting anxiously for news on the annual hexagenia mayfly hatch on Back Lake, keep waiting …