Fishing near Tuftonboro in Carroll County, NH

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• drop shot powerbait smelt
• drop shot rig
• drop shot
• wacky rig senko
• wacky rig senko in various colors.
• wacky rigged senko & spinnerbait when windy
• wacky rig senko & jigs
• pitchin a worm
• Wacky 4 inch senkos
• large shinner weighted

Creature Check Prices

• Brush Hog

Minnow Check Prices

• 15 feet off ground
• Shiners and nightcrawlers. Normally don't use live bait, it's so boring to me. I was teaching my girlfriend how to bobber fish in the hopes that she would embrace my hobby. Didn't work. Oh well.
• 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!
• Dead

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Black Jitterbug
• Popper and around 7"
• reble pop r
• Scum Frog black hollow body
• hollow body
• Mostly J7 and J9 rapalas both in Black and Neon Orange
• Zara spook puppy
• zara spook puppy

Lizard Check Prices

• zoom Chartruese lizard
• I used those blue lizards again in this shallow area. They always seem to produce well in this lake one way or the other.
• 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.
• Although I got some nibbles on the plastic worms, all of the fish were landed on those plastic salamanders again!
• Thry just don't stop biting those plastic salamanders.
• zoom 6" pumpkinseed
• Same as train track 2

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• wacky rigged senko
  
  smallies and larrys

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• 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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zoom Horny Toad in Watermelonseed

Stick Bait Check Prices

• 3-5' jerk bait
• deep diveing jerk bait

Dry Fly Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1st was 6"
  2nd was 1-1/2lbs
  3rd was 10"
• Joe's Flies spinner
• 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.
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• all between 7in and 4in

Worm Check Prices

• Dropshot - 1-1/4lb and a 11"er
• 6" Green Brown Pumpkin Senko
• This was the first (and bigger) of the two Smallmouth I managed to boat. Despite the looks, (he bled quite a bit, I think due to gill damage) I was able to release him safely. For the billionth time, those Tequila Sunrise Power Worms produced all of the action.
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• 1st was 1-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 14oz
• 2 decent sized red worms sent to the bottom.
• Yamamotto
• Black Gary Yamamotto Worm, hooked weedless
• 5" Green tailed YUM worm
• Wacky rigged Senkos
  
  Green Pumkin or Bk/ BL

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 6 & 7 inch on Rooster Tail and Crankbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Dropshot - Too many of these suckers
• Dropshot
• 3 Keepers
  1.47lbs, 1lb 2oz, and 3/4lbs
  
  Also 2 shorts
• Dropshot, and C-Rig
  4 Keepers, and 2 Shorts
• All on the Dropshot 1lb 15oz, 1-3/4lb, 1-1/2lb, 1-1/4lb, and 1 just over a lb
• Dropshot and in the 7" range
• Shakeyhead, and Dropshot. Between a 24" 3lb fatty to 12"
• Shakey Head - a 1lber and two 10"ers
• Drop Shot, and Shakeyhead all between 15"-12"
• senkos

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 5" senko in bluegrass color, weightless
• phoebe lure
• Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

• tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure
• minnow type Lure
• minnow looking crankbait....
• deep runner crankbait....

Bass Jig Check Prices

• jig, fluke,worm,crankbait
• shakey head
• black/blue boo jig, no trailer, skirt cut back

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Trolling with lead core line

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• half a nightcrawler on a #8 hook with spinner and bead rig. had a swivel and weight about a 12" up
• it was getting late sun was just about down and we started catching Brown Bullheads
• half of a live nightcrawlers on a #8 hook with 2 splitshots 18" up on line
• One average nightcrawler and one small red worm sent to the bottom beyond the drop off.
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  Neon Orange 2-way spinner hook.
• caught 6 on nightcrawlers and 1 on phoebe lure
• Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
• trolling with nightcrawler and a 2-way spinner rig 2 weights near the swivel
• slip sinker rig
• i cut nightcrawler in half and fished with alittle weight 10-12" up the line

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• brass dotted harry lure

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• zara spook
• Green with black spots jitter bug

Grub Check Prices

• Bass Pro Brown with blue flake curly tailed grub
• Brown curly tailed w/ blue flake weightless
• Brown curly tailed w/ blue flak weightless

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• Rainbow Powerbait (floating), off bottom.
• Worms & Orange Powerbait.
  
  Silver/Copper 2-Way spinner hooks, bobbers & bottom fishing.
• Rainbow Powerbait.
• Squid
• 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!
• Orange floating Powerbait pellets about 3.5' off the bottom.