Fishing near Strafford in Strafford County, NH

Check Prices

• Wacky rigged 4" senkos
  
  White
• Watermelon Dinger
• Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  
• nightcrawler with a bobber
• 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!
• i don't remember which lure i was using at the time... i will try and remember
• just used plain worms.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Mackerel

Creature Check Prices

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

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.
• 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.
• 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!

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• jitterbug
• rebel popr
• rebel pop-r
• heddon crazy crawler
• Zara spook puppy
• zara spook puppy
• Black Jitterbug

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.
• zoom Chartruese lizard
• Same as train track 2
• zoom 6" pumpkinseed

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• Caffiene Shad

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zoom Horny Toad in Watermelonseed

Stick Bait Check Prices

• black/yellow heddon spook

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures
• 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!
• 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.
• all between 7in and 4in
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

• Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
• green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
• Texas + wacky senkos Black yellow or blue flake and Sidewinder worm blk/red flake
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• Wacky-rigged yum dinger
• 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.
• 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!
• berkley gulp power bait nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 with a bobber.
• Did a little fishing near the center rock pile. Managed to pull up two nice smallies! Looks like they were hanging closer to the surface this time. Tried throwing some surface baits around but the stiff breeze killed that pretty quick. So instead I kept some soft plastics up near the surface.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark senko texas rigged
• 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

• senkos
• 5 inch senkos

Lure (Other) Check Prices

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

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

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

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• half a nightcrawler on a 2 way spinner trolling at#5 back towards boat launch
• #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
• nightcrawler on a bobber above the dam. without a bobber below the dam where i had the most luck
• on a bobber
• nightcrawler with weight.fished the bottom of the water
• i cut nightcrawler in half and fished with alittle weight 10-12" up the line
• slip sinker rig
• i believe it was a largemouth but could of been a smallmouth
• boomer two feet up
• nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom

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.

Blade Bait Check Prices

• micro King
• Micro King
  Caffiene Shad

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Live Baits Check Prices

• Worm

Other Check Prices

• berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait
• 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!
• worms and P.bait
• Worms & Orange Powerbait.
  
  Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
• Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• just some good old rainbow paste