Up in the far north of New Hampshire, where the Connecticut River is born out of a chain of cold lakes against the Quebec line, Pittsburg holds the state's best landlocked salmon and brook trout fishing — moose country, big woods, and a river that fishes as a series of connected lake-outlet reaches. The open-water salmon season starts on the first of April on the managed lakes, and the river reaches below First and Second Connecticut hold salmon, brook trout, and stocked rainbows and browns. It's a lake-and-river rhythm: salmon move with the smelt and the outlet flows, brookies hold in the cold tributaries and pockets. Northern, quiet, and weather-exposed — this is New Hampshire at its most salmon-and-river-focused, not the big managed lakes.

• Mixed

• Aquatic life: Not assessed
• Fish consumption: Impaired