Fishing near Pelham in Hillsborough County, NH

Check Prices

• i used corn
• Rooster Tail
• mepps lure
• P.bait
• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• tiki worms
• live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• White power eggs.
• White Power Eggs

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• minitube flourescent

Creature Check Prices

• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• 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
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple

Minnow Check Prices

• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Live Shiner
• Live Minnows
• Live minnows
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• Shine on and dropped.
• Live minnow
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
• hooked through back on tipup

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• FROG
• Bone Zara spook
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• MS Slammer hitch
• jitterbug
• Jitterbug
• rebel pop-r
• heddon crazy crawler

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• green w/ red fleck
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• hit while sinking
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/REd Flake
• Senko
• 4-inch Senko in Watermelon/Red Flake
• 5-inch Senko in Black w/Red Flake
• Senko.
• 4" Senko in Watermelon with Red Flake, fished weightless on a Texas-rig.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Chartuese w/ Green
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• Spinner
  Blue-fox
  Yellow
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• Dark Colors

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.
• yellow paddle tail frog. we saw a break in the water and knew there was a good fish. hit it a few times till he got him to take it.
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.
• Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• powerbait nuggets
• Trolling main channel
• 5" Yamamoto green
  1/4 oz Crankbait
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in
• Rapala Original Silver

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• White Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1/4 ounce
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• My Friend and I used Power and Zoom worms. Caught 8 tiny LMBs. 4 a piece.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• Power Worm. Texas Rig.
• Weedless Texas rig with a rubber Zoom watermelon worm. Switched to a powerbait worm. There are some giant bass in this lake. The biggest bass of the day never made it to the boat. It snapped my 8lb line during the fight.
• Trick worm on a shaky head and a drop shot rig with a powerbait minnow.
• Yamamoto!
• Zoom Watermelon Seed
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
• 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.

Soft Baits Check Prices

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• Dropshot
• Senko and Dropshot
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked
• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Rooster Tail
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Spinnerbait
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.

Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• SPRO BBZ1
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color

Jigs Check Prices

• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• same jig as before
• 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
• black and blue with blue craw trailer
• Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.
  
  Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• white
• Reaction Innovations
  4.5" Little Dipper
  
• Berkeley GULP!
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet
• 5" Swim Senko in Pumpkin with Blake Flake fished weightless.
• Lake fork magic shad
• yamamoto swimsenko

Wet Fly Check Prices

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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• We used Live Night Crawlers and a few Live Moths
• on tipups shallow as heck
• Silver/Copper 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hook.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• Neon Orange 2-Way Spinner Hook.
• One whole crawler on a size 1/0 hook, sent to the bottom.
• 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.
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• Daredevil
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

• We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
• We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• Bread Balls and Canned Corn
• Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.
  
  all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.
  
  
• i use just plain old oatmeal with a special homemade dippin' sauce
• Dat food and chick peas performed well once again. Maple peas had a run but we lost the fish.