Fishing near Epsom in Merrimack County, NH

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• just used plain worms.
• All types of baits
• tiki
• live, rubber, spinner
• Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
• Wacky rigged 4" senkos
  
  White
• mepps
• Watermelon Dinger
• Green Lizards
• mepps lure

Creature Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

• 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.
• 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.
• pinners
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
• Live minnows
• Live minnow

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
• Fish back right of the 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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait

Stick Bait Check Prices

• black/yellow heddon spook
• powerbait nuggets

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.
• 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!
• all between 7in and 4in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
• Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange

Nymph Check Prices

• Prince & Copper John

Worm Check Prices

• black/silver flake senko
• black/silverflake senkos
• black /silver flake senko
• blck and red zoom bait crawlers
• Small 1inch white with spinner
• wacky-rigged yum dillies
• Just any worm
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• wacky rigged green 4" senko
• Wacky-rigged yum dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• minnow looking crankbait....
• Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
• Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.
• deep runner crankbait....
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb

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
• black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• boomer two feet up
• i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
• half a nightcrawler on a 2 way spinner trolling at#5 back towards boat launch
• i think i caught a pumpkinseed on a nightcrawler might have been a bluegill
• with a colorado blade leader
• colorado blade leader
• 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.
• #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
• bass werent biting so we made a morning of it useing worms and caught a bunch of small fish.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.

Blade Bait Check Prices

• micro King
• Micro King
  Caffiene Shad

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• power bait baby
• worms and powerbait
• worms and P.bait
• berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
• 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!
• Worms & Orange Powerbait.
  
  Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
• Orange floating Powerbait pellets about 3.5' off the bottom.