Fishing near Merrimack in Hillsborough County, NH

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• live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
• mepps lure
• mepps
• mepps lure agila
• mepps lure
• tiki worms
• Green Lizards
• Plastic worm and Madam X Parchute Fly
• P.bait
• Rooster Tail

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Bobber & Shiner.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.

Creature Check Prices

• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures
  
  strike king crankbait
  
  white spinnerbait
• Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
• Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic

Tube Check Prices

• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig

Minnow Check Prices

• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• pinners
• Live minnow
• Live minnows
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
• Live Shiner
• Live Minnows
• Large shiners
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Shine on and dropped.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• rebel pop-r
• heddon crazy crawler
• jitterbug
• rebel popr
• Bone Zara spook

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Fish back right of the pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-Go

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
• Chartuese w/ Green

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog

Stick Bait Check Prices

• powerbait nuggets
• gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/4 ounce
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• White Rooster Tail
• Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
• Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
• They liked the brighter green ones.
• Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
• I tried wacky-rigged yum dingers, a jitterbug, a mepps rooster tail, texas-rigged dingers, grubbs, and a rapala original floating minnow. Nothing worked on the bass that are supposed to be in here.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• Yamamoto!
• purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
• "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  
• Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Bronze 2-way spinner hook.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Senko and Dropshot

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
• mepps
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• mepps #2
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
• mepps #3 trebble hook
• sluggos
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.

Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown

Crankbait Check Prices

• purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
• Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
• Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
• 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.
• Blue gill crankbait
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
• Black n blue jig n pig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• white
• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Wolly Bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe
• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Bobber, worm, slow current.
• Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
• Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
• Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
• Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
• Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook.

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.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• Daredevil
• Chatterbait

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Flies Check Prices

• Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
  One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
  All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
• worms and P.bait
• Shiners
• just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
• We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
• We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• Bread Balls and Canned Corn