Fishing near Hill in Merrimack County, NH

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• I used a white rocket shad while trolling.
• jerk baits
  plastics
• dillie
• 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.
  
• 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.
• I used two kinds of Powerbait here. The first were small "Red Shad" worms. The other were blue salamanders. Both were rigged "Texas Style."
• pitchin a worm

Creature Check Prices

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.
• 15 feet off ground

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Mostly J7 and J9 rapalas both in Black and Neon Orange
• reble pop r
• Popper and around 7"
• Black Jitterbug

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.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• wacky rigged senko
  
  smallies and larrys

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• Prince & Copper John

Worm Check Prices

• Senko
  1st Smallie was 12in 14oz
  3rd Smallie was 6in
• Senko
• Senko - one 8in, two 10in, and one 12in
• 4" BP Roadkill senko style
• 6" bl/bl or watermelon Senkos wacky rigged Deadsticked
  
  Gr pumkin C rigged lizards dragged slowly
• 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

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

• chrome crankbait

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 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

• 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.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• 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.
• Small "trout size" worms were the bait of choice here.
• I took mthe advice from a local bait shop employee and put some nightcrawlers on the end of some jigs.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Green with black spots jitter bug
• zara spook

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

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.
• 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!