Fishing near Danbury in Merrimack County, NH

Check Prices

• jerk baits
  plastics
• dillie
• I used a white rocket shad while trolling.
• jerk bait
• large shinner weighted
• 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.
  
• 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.

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• yellow jig w/ yellow 2" curly tail power grub

Minnow Check Prices

• Dead
• 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Mostly J7 and J9 rapalas both in Black and Neon Orange

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• 5" senko in bluegrass color, weightless

Lizard Check Prices

• Gr pumpkin dipped tail
• Same as train track 2
• zoom 6" pumpkinseed
• 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.
• Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
• Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• chrome crankbait

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• reg. worms
• same setup as the bass
• Sinker above a barrel swivel. Then powerbait to help lift the hook off the bottom. Nightcrawler on the hook.
• Night crawler on a # 4 GOLD SPINNER
• trolling with nightcrawler and a 2-way spinner rig 2 weights near the swivel
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  Neon Orange 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• One average nightcrawler and one small red worm sent to the bottom beyond the drop off.
• slip sinke rig with nightcrawler injected with air to float off bottom.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• deep diveing jerk bait
• 3-5' jerk bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Panther-Martin classic - holographic tiger green
  Rooster Tail - yellow & green
  Rooster Tail - orange
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• all between 7in and 4in
• 1st was 6"
  2nd was 1-1/2lbs
  3rd was 10"

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Green with black spots jitter bug

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
  1st Smallie was 12in 14oz
  3rd Smallie was 6in
• Senko
• Senko - one 8in, two 10in, and one 12in
• 6" bl/bl or watermelon Senkos wacky rigged Deadsticked
  
  Gr pumkin C rigged lizards dragged slowly
• 4" BP Roadkill senko style
• 5" Green tailed YUM worm
• Yamamotto
• Black Gary Yamamotto Worm, hooked weedless
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• 1st was 1-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 14oz

Grub Check Prices

• Bass Pro Brown with blue flake curly tailed grub
• Brown curly tailed w/ blue flake weightless
• Brown curly tailed w/ blue flak weightless

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• 7" Plastic worms caught 2 pickerell and 3 largemouth

Other Check Prices

• Orange floating Powerbait pellets about 3.5' off the bottom.
• Squid
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• Worms & Orange Powerbait.
  
  Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
• Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.