Fishing near Concord in Merrimack County, NH

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• tiki
• just used plain worms.
• mepps
• mepps lure
• I used two kinds of Powerbait here. The first were small "Red Shad" worms. The other were blue salamanders. Both were rigged "Texas Style."
• These are the fish from the second night on the damn. There may be a repeat photo in here somewhere. I apologize, they were taken with different cameras and are stored all over the place on my various devices.
• Truth be told I didn’t really bother measuring them out this time, conditions aboard the kayak are a little cramped for that. Maybe I should drill a measuring board to the side. I’m going to guess that this guy was around a pound and a half. I managed to pull in all three bass on my usual power worm/brass weight rig. If I didn’t have the feeling that I’m hardly to the only person to use this combo then I’d patent it!
• This one was caught on one of those purple jelly worms that I used extensively throughout the year. Once again I was using a bullet weight and an offset hook with a Texas rig.
  
• All types of baits
• mepps lure agila

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Creature Check Prices

• orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures
  
  strike king crankbait
  
  white spinnerbait

Minnow Check Prices

• This is the first fish I have ever caught using a tip-up device. My other ice fishing catches were done using my normal bass road sitting by a single hole in the ice. I much prefer to do things this way! It was just a small Chain Pickerel however. For bait we were using some live shiners we bought at a local shop. This is also the first time I have ever used those!
• Here is the first pickerel I caught. Came up early in the day. Nice to have some action early to keep you interested. As usual, it took a live shiner.
• Here is the fish I caught, which was the first fish of the day, an okay pickerel. Everybody was using live shiners on their tip ups and jig rods.
• pinners
• Large shiners

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• mepps #3 trebble hook
• Rooster Tail
• mepps #2
• mepps

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• jitterbug
• rebel popr
• heddon crazy crawler
• rebel pop-r

Lizard Check Prices

• Fish back right of the pond
• Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
• Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.
• Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
• I caught this on the same type of blue lizard that I have been hammering the Largemouth with. I was twitching it along the rocky bottom when this guy decided to play.
• I caught this little guy on the same rig that I caught the Smallmouth on. A blue lizard texas rig.
• I used those blue lizards again in this shallow area. They always seem to produce well in this lake one way or the other.
• Same as train track 2
• zoom 6" pumpkinseed

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• crawfish Lure
• crawfish lure
• crawfish lure
• i used the bigger crawfish Lure this time

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

• jig & worm
• same
  i was trowing a jig and my son was throwing a worm

Crankbait Check Prices

• minnow looking crankbait....

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white zoom flukes
  and brown and green jig with green craw trailer
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• i think i caught a pumpkinseed on a nightcrawler might have been a bluegill
• i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
• There were so many weeds here that pulling a normal lure through simply was not an option. We dropped some worms down hoping maybe a pickerel would latch on. Alas, we draine our supply of worms on these little guys!
• The other reason we exhausted our supply of nightcrawlers.
• boomer two feet up
• colorado blade leader
• with a colorado blade leader
• I took mthe advice from a local bait shop employee and put some nightcrawlers on the end of some jigs.
• The same worm/jig rig that brought in the bass caught some perch as well.
• Small "trout size" worms were the bait of choice here.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• black/yellow heddon spook

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
• using all types of lures here on this day.. just too cold too chase the hunt,,, lazy b****es
• all between 7in and 4in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Also included in mess of fish attacking the fly spinner was this large sunfish. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure which species it is. I'm guessing it's a Bluegill, due to it's size and lack of red on the gill cover, or blue "war paint." I forgot how much fun catching these fish on light tackle was! The picture is not so good, but it was dark and this was the best I could do.
• While plying the northern end of the lake by the mouths of the inlet streams, I tossed around one of those Joe's "Fly Spinners." While I didn't get any trout, it turns out that Sunnies and yellow perch couldn't get enough of it!

Nymph Check Prices

• Prince & Copper John
• Copper John, under a EHC

Worm Check Prices

• wacky rigged green 4" senko
• Small 1inch white with spinner
• black/silverflake senkos
• black/silver flake senko
• black /silver flake senko
• blck and red zoom bait crawlers
• wacky-rigged yum dillies
• The Bass pictured here is the biggest Bass of my life so far! 19 inches, almost enough to qualify for the NH catch and release trophy program. When I first hooked him, I thought I had bottom, until the bottom started pulling back!. A couple headshaking minutes later, and I pulled this beast into the kayak! I can't wait until next year for this fish to grow even more!
• Just any worm
• wacky-rigged yum dinger

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

• I was using the same jig/nightcrawler combintion as last time.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• white zoom fluke
• white zoom flukes
  green yamamoto wacky rigged worm.
  
  booyah boo jog / craw trailer
• zoom white flukes
• Dark senko texas rigged

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

Other Check Prices

• power bait baby
• worms and powerbait
• worms and P.bait
• Orange floating Powerbait pellets about 3.5' off the bottom.
• Curious about the trout-like fish I always see swimming by the boat ramp, I tossed in some powerbait on a light rod to see what they were. Turns out, they were some suckers! You know, they fight pretty hard for their size. I'll keep this spot in mind the next time I need some lake trout bait!
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• Worms & Orange Powerbait.
  
  Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
• Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
• Rainbow PowerBait. Trout Formula.