Fishing near Pittsfield in Merrimack 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!
• Wacky rigged 4" senkos
  
  White
• Watermelon Dinger
• just used plain worms.
• tiki
• All types of baits
• Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster Tail
• 5" senko in bluegrass color, weightless
• phoebe lure
• mepps #3 trebble hook
• mepps #2
• mepps

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• Rubber worm, spinning bait on the edge of the pond, jig middle of 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 little guy on the same rig that I caught the Smallmouth on. A blue lizard texas rig.
• 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 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
• Fish back right of the pond

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Caffiene Shad

Jigs Check Prices

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

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

• white zoom flukes
  and brown and green jig with green craw trailer
• black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• 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
• 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!
• i think i caught a pumpkinseed on a nightcrawler might have been a bluegill
• I took mthe advice from a local bait shop employee and put some nightcrawlers on the end of some jigs.
• The same worm/jig rig that brought in the bass caught some perch as well.
• Small "trout size" worms were the bait of choice here.
• nightcrawler on a bobber above the dam. without a bobber below the dam where i had the most luck
• nightcrawler with weight.fished the bottom of the water

Stick Bait Check Prices

• black/yellow heddon spook

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
• Use any kind of spinning lure. I do not think there are any bass here, but PLENTY of hard fighting pickerel, and perch.
• 1st was 6"
  2nd was 1-1/2lbs
  3rd was 10"
• Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures

Blade Bait Check Prices

• micro King
• Micro King
  Caffiene Shad

Worm Check Prices

• The Bass pictured here is the biggest Bass of my life so far! 19 inches, almost enough to qualify for the NH catch and release trophy program. When I first hooked him, I thought I had bottom, until the bottom started pulling back!. A couple headshaking minutes later, and I pulled this beast into the kayak! I can't wait until next year for this fish to grow even more!
• This is the one Bass I caught during the day, somewhere around a pounds and a half. Red Shad Power Worms once again did the job here, with the Texas Rigs being able to slice through the weeds quite nicely.
• Though I fought with about five or six Pickerel throughout the day, their teeth kept cutting through my light line. I did manage to land two of them though, the one pictured here being 20 inches and 2 pounds, my biggest in recent memory! Though I would normally use some kind of a hard lure for Pickerel, I was relying on my soft plastic rigs to slink through the weeds. Once again, all fish were caught on “Red Shad” Power Worms.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

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

Other Check Prices

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