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Hope everyone is taking it safe on the ice been hearing to many news reports of people going in the water. On the home front just picked up a elite 5hdi and a elite 7hdi for my boat. cant wait to use them and to make my own depth maps from it.

Just put in my order for some lead free tube jig heads from leadfreejigheads .com other then my jigs and worm weights its all I need for weighted hooks.

I feel for you, I volunteered for the Army many moons ago and my hearing prevented me from going on. Glad to hear you will still be busy.

You can use lead jig heads they must be 11/2 inches on the longest axis and you cant sell them in NH so if you have those small crappie jigs then your out of luck but with normal size bass jigs your fine. I have been lead free for the past 2 yrs I just got rid of anything the game wardens would question. The law went into a 2 yr phase full affect this year so you can bet they will do spot inspections when they do a safety check on your boat like they normally do.

Current state law prohibits the use of lead sinkers and jigs in all fresh water in New Hampshire, including lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. The ban prohibits the use of lead sinkers weighing 1 ounce or less and lead jigs less than 1 inch long along their longest axis. The law also prohibits the sale in New Hampshire of lead sinkers weighing 1 ounce or less and lead jigs less than 1 inch long along their longest axis. Basically if its less then one inch and or your questioning it, be safe get rid of it.

Anybody looking to spend their Cabelas cards Cabelas on their web site has a lowrance elite 5 hdi with gps for only 249 I just pick one up cant wait to use it.

My friend Cilley has been out on the lakes slaying the smallmouth including this past Sunday. The ice is finally creeping here now so open water will soon close up but wont be safe for some time.

My buddies are showing pictures on their facebook pages catching well over 2 dozen smallies on Winni today. Wish I was with them. Looks like old man winter will be here Tuesday.

Anyone else getting confused with the new layout here?

I am hearing Swains is still hovering around 45 for water temps wish I could get a boat out.

Two buddies of mine took their john boat out and caught several lm over 3lbs plus some of the biggest pickerel of the year on North River Pond Weds.

Never fished it this late but slow will be the name of the game.

Most of the day we were in 25 to 30 ft of water throwing them onto rocks and structure in 7-15ft of water slowly dragging and hopping over the rocky bottoms, colors were a black jig head with either a pumpkin green or a black with blue flake chiggar craws for the extra bulk. I tried silver buddies around the deeper rock piles but no luck. Purple chatter baits with a copper blade with a fat keitech fat impact shad worked well also when the breeze picked up and the clouds came in.

Did Bunganut today with my friend Ed. We caught over 2 dozen LM and a single smallmouth, The bite was a jig bite and a couple on chatter bait biggest was just over 4lbs my friend Ed caught but the average size fish was over 2lbs. Bunganut has no public access but Ed was lucky enough to have friends that allowed us to put the small boat from their yard on the pond. Ed has told me that 6 7 8 are not that uncommon on the pond but we couldn't get them to bite. The pond was also being drained for the winter this week so it could have affected the bite. Brought my Gopro along and got some cool under water shots today.

will to try my luck with a blade baits tomorrow. Going to fish Bunganut Pond in the morning.

Whats the set up for your blade baits MainBass? I have mine paired with my spinning tackle a shimano 6:2 with 10lb floro was using both gold and silver Thursday bumping and jigging from 15-35 ft of water and I didnt get any confidence from it.

Got off the pond around 2 after putting a dozen smallies into the boat. average size was 2lbs with the biggest at 3.8lbs I thought it was going to be a great start hitting a smallie on the second cast with a shadow rap stick bait but then it got hard 20 ft deep with watermelon with red speck spider grubs on a football head or a black with blue tube bait till the bite died around 1. The weather was almost to perfect with no breeze on a crystal clear pond.

Hitting Rust again lets hope for some slobs today

What started out as a perfect fishing morning turned into a hard day of fishing but still not disapointed at the quality of the fish in Rust Pond in Wolfeboro, NH We worked onthe idea with it being foggy and water at 65 that top water would work, when that didnt happen turned to crank baits and rattle traps then we started shore fishing after a couple hours scratching out heads we went deep 25-30 ft hitting the bottom with jigs either a green pumpkin spider jig or a black/blue 1/2 oz jig with a rage craw bama or green pumpkin. out of 14 caught in the boat the smallest was a 2.8 SM. What made this exciting was fighting a fish in deep water sometimes 50 yards away then watching them jump at a distance. Biggest for me was a 5lb LG and a 4lb SM if you don't mind launching a small boat or canoe so close to rt28 right next to the ramp then this is a nice quiet pond to fish. I haven't viewed it yet but I have some gopro footage that hopefully came out.

I have personally never been there going with some friends They say there is a dirt carry in ramp off of rt28

Hitting rust pond in Wolfeboro Tuesday heard there are some very large smallies there.

Congrats MilfordNHBasser and good luck on the future tourneys,That's a good reason I keep suggesting Lees Mills area to fish. It has it's own eco system that feels like a small lake but has many advantages of Winni itself. The rockiness and shallow areas make it hard for sport boaters to ruin your day. Lees is also able to produce bass in the 7-8lb sizes (my father 7.4) while smallies can be found in the 4lb sizes (4.6 for me). The channel between Badger and Goodwin has always produced many memorable moments. The rock hazards in Greens can always produce. Again good luck with the school tourneys.

I haven't heard any bite reports. Lees area and adjoining western coves is very good in the mornings for largemouth, Winter Harbour for smallmouth during the day. structure shallows 3-8 ft with crankbaits is the name of the game fish are migrating but thats my theory. If fishing after Oct 1st remember certain streams and bays are off limits on winni. http://www.eregulations.com/newhampshire/fishing/freshwater/lakes-ponds-with-special-rules/ scroll to Winni.

If guides don't work out, head to Lee's Mill area on Winni great fishing for both lg and sm but it's a very controllable environment.

They say 1 - 2 years They are repairing the stone dam so more damage they find the longer it will take. It's one of the few original stone dams left in the state.