Fishing near Gilmanton in Belknap County, NH

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• 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.
• 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.
  
• 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!
• large shinner weighted
• I used a white rocket shad while trolling.
• jerk bait
• nightcrawler with a bobber
• drop shot powerbait smelt
• i don't remember which lure i was using at the time... i will try and remember

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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 15 feet off ground
• Dead

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Black Jitterbug
• reble pop r
• Popper and around 7"
• Zara spook puppy
• zara spook puppy
• Mostly J7 and J9 rapalas both in Black and Neon Orange
• jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• 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 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.
• 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.
• Same as train track 2
• zoom 6" pumpkinseed
• Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of pond
• zoom Chartruese lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• wacky rigged senko
  
  smallies and larrys
• Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• i was fishing a homemade tandem rig...weedless green minnow bait and a spinnerbait ...hooked the bas on the spinnerbait...i don't know if the other lure helped or not

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zoom Horny Toad in Watermelonseed

Stick Bait Check Prices

• black/yellow heddon spook
• 3-5' jerk bait
• deep diveing jerk bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 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
• 1st was 6"
  2nd was 1-1/2lbs
  3rd was 10"

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• My most successful night was the first one down by the damn, where I caught 8 fish (almost 9). All fish for the whole weekend were caught on my usual rig, 7 inch Berkley power worm (tequila sunrise pattern) with a brass cone weight and a 1/0 (except two fish were on a 2/0) angled worm hook.
• Thats plastic worms not real ones for all you sticklers for the law (like myself.) These worms have a funny story though. They came to me in a tackle box given to me last year by my uncle. This box probably had not been opened for about 25 years. After 25 years black jellyworms still work!
• I caught a total of eight bass over the three days at Sawyer Lake, one dink bass the first night, three decent ones the next, and four the night after. All fish were caught on my standard rig, the first few on Berkley Power Worms, the rest on Mann’s Jelly Worms. Dad was with me some nights, and caught two Bass himself.
• I started off my weekend catching a few largemouth over at the Sawyer Lake dam. Nothing too big, but it was good way to break out of the rut I was in all week. Thunderstorms drove me in early, but I still managed to wrangle up three fish.
• Make no mistake. During this time I did do a little bit of fishing off of the Sawyer Lake Dam. It's been pretty slow here however, somewhat surprisingly. This place should blow up near the beginning of July, but until then it's a slow pick of Largemouth. I used the same yamasenko rig here.
• This matches my biggest largemouth in length, and probably in weight as well. The fish off of the damn were all caught on "Tequila Sunrise" colored power worms with a gold colored 3/16 oz. bullet weight. I also changed up the line to a lighter 6 lb. test, which may have helped.
• As the sun fell on the first night, I was still playing around with a Texas rigged purple Jellyworm. While I was bouncing it along the bottom by the damn, I felt a solid bite. While I was reeling this "bass" in, I noticed that this particular fish was rolling. Odd, bass don't do that. I proceeded to pull up a 2 lb. hornpout! Odd to see one take a lure like that!
• This is the first of the four fish I caught over the weekend. I arrived at the damn at about 8:10 PM. I made one cast out from the damn, and almost instantly this bass gobbled up my lure! The quality of the photo's are not as good this time around, as I had forgot to bring my camera and had to take all of these pictures with my cellphone. Once again, all fish were caught on 8 in tequila sunrise power worms. I think I need to invest in a good landing net though, as my line keeps breaking bringing them up and hand landing these guys sucks.
• While working my way up and down the damn, I would often keep my Jelly Worm in the water. On one occasion, this impromptu land-based trolling technique yielded a fish! Not much more than a tiny yellow perch.
• I was using those black jellyworms for both of those Bass again.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Dropshot - Too many of these suckers
• 3 Keepers
  1.47lbs, 1lb 2oz, and 3/4lbs
  
  Also 2 shorts
• Dropshot, and C-Rig
  4 Keepers, and 2 Shorts
• All on the Dropshot 1lb 15oz, 1-3/4lb, 1-1/2lb, 1-1/4lb, and 1 just over a lb
• Shakeyhead, and Dropshot. Between a 24" 3lb fatty to 12"
• Dropshot and in the 7" range
• Shakey Head - a 1lber and two 10"ers
• Drop Shot, and Shakeyhead all between 15"-12"
• senkos

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• minnow looking crankbait....
• minnow type Lure
• tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
• deep runner crankbait....
• Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
• chrome crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back
• white zoom flukes
  and brown and green jig with green craw trailer
• shakey head
• jig, fluke,worm,crankbait

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• The same worm/jig rig that brought in the bass caught some perch as well.
• I took mthe advice from a local bait shop employee and put some nightcrawlers on the end of some jigs.
• Small "trout size" worms were the bait of choice here.
• The other reason we exhausted our supply of nightcrawlers.
• 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!
• slip sinker rig
• nightcrawler with weight.fished the bottom of the water
• i cut nightcrawler in half and fished with alittle weight 10-12" up the line
• trolling with nightcrawler and a 2-way spinner rig 2 weights near the swivel
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Green with black spots jitter bug
• zara spook

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.

Grub Check Prices

• Bass Pro Brown with blue flake curly tailed grub

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

Other Check Prices

• 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 (floating), off bottom.
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• Orange floating Powerbait pellets about 3.5' off the bottom.
• power bait baby
• Squid
• worms and powerbait
• berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait