06-27-2010, 01:23 PM
[font "Calibri"]Fishing report week ending 6/27/10[/font]
[font "Calibri"]Striped Bass fishing is still a bit off (past years catches) in NH over the last two weeks. We are catching fish, usually between 5 to 15 or so but I am just not seeing the large schools of smaller stripers that were evident in prior years. On almost every trip we caught at least 1 fish over 28” and on many we caught 3 or 4. Last week I did a lot of live bait fishing, first going out and catching mackerel and then live lining them back for striped bass. It can be a real effective and fun way to fish although best with one or two anglers aboard. This week right off the macks seemed to disappear. So we went back to cut bait for stripers. That gave us more time to fish for our targeted species and in most cases we caught similar sized fish. The silver sides (small bait fish) that had been in the river system where still around but not as prevalent on the surface, they seemed to be deeper in the water column. Saturday probably the busiest day on the river this week, produced some of the best results. With 3 long time customers we managed 3 bigger fish, with one for the grill and a bunch of other good sized fish. A number of fishing spots produced which is probably the best news of all. [/font]
[font "Calibri"]Tight Lines, Capt. Joel[/font]
[font "Calibri"]www.nhsaltwaterfishing.com[/font]
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[font "Calibri"]Striped Bass fishing is still a bit off (past years catches) in NH over the last two weeks. We are catching fish, usually between 5 to 15 or so but I am just not seeing the large schools of smaller stripers that were evident in prior years. On almost every trip we caught at least 1 fish over 28” and on many we caught 3 or 4. Last week I did a lot of live bait fishing, first going out and catching mackerel and then live lining them back for striped bass. It can be a real effective and fun way to fish although best with one or two anglers aboard. This week right off the macks seemed to disappear. So we went back to cut bait for stripers. That gave us more time to fish for our targeted species and in most cases we caught similar sized fish. The silver sides (small bait fish) that had been in the river system where still around but not as prevalent on the surface, they seemed to be deeper in the water column. Saturday probably the busiest day on the river this week, produced some of the best results. With 3 long time customers we managed 3 bigger fish, with one for the grill and a bunch of other good sized fish. A number of fishing spots produced which is probably the best news of all. [/font]
[font "Calibri"]Tight Lines, Capt. Joel[/font]
[font "Calibri"]www.nhsaltwaterfishing.com[/font]
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