Fishing near Salem in Rockingham County, NH

Check Prices

• P.bait
• tiki worms
• i used corn
• wacky rig garry yamamoto
• White power eggs.
• culprut and gary
• White Power Eggs
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.
  
  
• live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol

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.
• Clams
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• Fresh live mackeral
• Sea worm
• Live mackerel

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
• orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures
  
  strike king crankbait
  
  white spinnerbait

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.

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

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

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• hit while sinking
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• green w/ red fleck
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• Baby bass lizard

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.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Chartuese w/ Green
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Dark Colors
• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
• I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

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.

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• White Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook 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
• 1/4 ounce
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Non-Keeper
• Sabiki rig, white

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• 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.
• Power Worm. Texas Rig.
• Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.
• Wacky Senko Worm
• Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
• PowerBait rubber worm
• 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.
• just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
• reeled real slow, weightless

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Dark senko texas rigged

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.
• We each caught 5 Keepers each.
  Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.
  
  I also had three 1-1/4lbers
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

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• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Dropshot
• Senko and Dropshot
• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• SPRO BBZ1

Jigs Check Prices

• silver,green skirt
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• Silver shad crank
• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• 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.
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Black n blue jig n pig
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• 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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• white
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

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

• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.
• Silver/Copper 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

Herring Check Prices

• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams

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

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

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

• just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
• Shiners
• 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 .....
• Dog food boilie
• Canned Corn
• Much like many of the spots along the Merrimack we have been hitting. Chick peas and Dat food have constantly out-performed everything else.
• again oatmeal