On June 18, 2016 at 4:09 PM, RMcDuffee726 said:

You catch her during a storm?  Seeing the line run in some choppy water is always a thrill.

Bro it was a good ass day. Got on umm today 

The frog bite was on fire this past weekend. Water temps were n the low to mid 70s where I was. The lily pads and other emergent vegetation has really started to come in thick. I noticed some fish blowing up real shallow this past weekend. I could see they were corralling large schools of fry and bowing up on them. they were shallow. Really shallow. Sometimes in  foot of water or less. I could see fish making wakes as they moved around super shallow. I thought they were pickerel or small bass. It didn't take long to figure out that they weren't. After I cast a frog in the vicinity of the blowups I was catching fish on nearly ever cast. they were averaging around 3 lbs. It was very fun and the first real frog bite I have had this year. On Friday I caught 25 bass, 6 between 3-4, 1 between 4 and 5 ( 4 lbs 14 oz) and 1 5 lber. Another 6 fish were between 2 lbs 13 oz and 3 lbs. On sat and sun I experienced a similar frog bite on 2 different bodies of water. The frog bite is ON. HAs anyone else been tearing up super shallow on a frog ? Get out there and fish a frog !

43 minutes ago, Mainebass1984 said:

The frog bite was on fire this past weekend. Water temps were n the low to mid 70s where I was. The lily pads and other emergent vegetation has really started to come in thick. I noticed some fish blowing up real shallow this past weekend. I could see they were corralling large schools of fry and bowing up on them. they were shallow. Really shallow. Sometimes in  foot of water or less. I could see fish making wakes as they moved around super shallow. I thought they were pickerel or small bass. It didn't take long to figure out that they weren't. After I cast a frog in the vicinity of the blowups I was catching fish on nearly ever cast. they were averaging around 3 lbs. It was very fun and the first real frog bite I have had this year. On Friday I caught 25 bass, 6 between 3-4, 1 between 4 and 5 ( 4 lbs 14 oz) and 1 5 lber. Another 6 fish were between 2 lbs 13 oz and 3 lbs. On sat and sun I experienced a similar frog bite on 2 different bodies of water. The frog bite is ON. HAs anyone else been tearing up super shallow on a frog ? Get out there and fish a frog !

Last week fishing all my fish were in the shallows around floating vegetation. Summer patterns are on. Bought a live target sunfish lure can't wait to try, it fish's like a frog so will try it as a follow up lure.

We fished Stumpfield Marsh on Sunday morning 5 am till 8 am.... My buddy was using poprs , frogs , craws and lizaeds both weightless and weighted directly in the lilys and weeds.  a few hits for him, but only managed pickerel.

Fishing seemed slow.   i stuck mostly with my black 7 inch spro rat with red tail.   Keeping it as close to the weed edges but also fishing a lot of open water.  i cranked it slow all morning.  pickerel and 4 small bass as well as 2 bass at the 4 lb mark.   both of the bigger bass were about a foot from the weed edge.  1 crushed it so hard i almost lost the pole out of the boat. There is no give on 30 lb braided line on a heavy rod.   the hand crank saved it.  I was not paying attention when he it and pulled the rod out of my hand.   the other one just sucked it under , i thought it was a big turtle.  I did fish a bit with bugs and craws , but mostly stuck with the big rat.

53 minutes ago, bobh64 said:

Last week fishing all my fish were in the shallows around floating vegetation. Summer patterns are on. Bought a live target sunfish lure can't wait to try, it fish's like a frog so will try it as a follow up lure.

I have several of the sunfish. It walks incredibly well. I bend the hooks up a bit for better hook ups. It doesn't cast as well as a frog though. I also have several of the live target field mouse. They get a ton of hits and walk well also. Dynamite at night.

Franklin Pierce lake,  going with 3 buddies on Friday morning early.  on the water by 4:30.. 
Looking to try and catch a pike,  then some bass.  I have never been there and we only have about 5 hours to fish. can anyone PM me some insight.  Nothing top secret but its a big place.   They will have a bass boat with a decent motor.  and i will have my 16 ft canoe with troller.

Gonna be on my home lake all weekend of northwood lake this weekend. Now I know it still holds a big fish or 2 in here my plan this weekend is to cover as much water as possible and find some deep weeds in 10-15 ft of water. I'm thinking I'm gonna throw a big. 5-7in swimbait and just run it any thoughts. The swimbaits I plan on using will be a basstrix rainbow trout style. Looking for any insight as to how to approach northwood it's mostly like a pool table really flat I'm thinking if I stay 20-30 yards off the shore all around its about 10ft water depth and I notice the weed patches tend to grow 20-30 yards off shore that are submerged. 

18 hours ago, MikeOGNR said:

I'm thinking I'm gonna throw a big. 5-7in swimbait and just run it any thoughts. The swimbaits I plan on using will be a basstrix rainbow trout style. 

I would recommend throwing a yellow perch pattern swimbait, because I don't think there are any rainbows in Northwood. "Match the hatch" as they say. During the last tournament that I fished on Northwood, I spent a lot of time following schools of 2"-3" yellow perch that were being forced to the surface by schools of smallmouth. Most of these schools were right at the very end of "Old Dump Road" in around 15 feet of water. Good luck!

Thank You , a couple people responded with a little info for Franklin Pierce lake........ Anything special i need to know for the boat ramp?  I will use my clarks book to find the ramp.    It will be my first time in this area of the state,

6 hours ago, nhbassin said:

I would recommend throwing a yellow perch pattern swimbait, because I don't think there are any rainbows in Northwood. "Match the hatch" as they say. During the last tournament that I fished on Northwood, I spent a lot of time following schools of 2"-3" yellow perch that were being forced to the surface by schools of smallmouth. Most of these schools were right at the very end of "Old Dump Road" in around 15 feet of water. Good luck!

Funny you say that I noticed the perch a little more antsy the last weekend I caught this bad boy not to far from there actually 

9 hours ago, nhbassin said:

I would recommend throwing a yellow perch pattern swimbait, because I don't think there are any rainbows in Northwood. "Match the hatch" as they say. During the last tournament that I fished on Northwood, I spent a lot of time following schools of 2"-3" yellow perch that were being forced to the surface by schools of smallmouth. Most of these schools were right at the very end of "Old Dump Road" in around 15 feet of water. Good luck!

How far off the shore were you I thought it was pretty flat over that way. 

8 hours ago, Nashua Nev said:

Thank You , a couple people responded with a little info for Franklin Pierce lake........ Anything special i need to know for the boat ramp?  I will use my clarks book to find the ramp.    It will be my first time in this area of the state,

Once you see the lake on your left through the trees you will go around a curve very shortly after (slow down because it comes up quick) you will see a sign that says Manahan Park on a small wooden sign on the left turn there on the dirt road.  You will come to a 3 way fork, take the left and that takes you right to the boat launch.  Good launch with a turnaround, can fill up quick though, the earlier you get there the better

On 6/29/2016 at 1:03 PM, MikeOGNR said:

Gonna be on my home lake all weekend of northwood lake this weekend. Now I know it still holds a big fish or 2 in here my plan this weekend is to cover as much water as possible and find some deep weeds in 10-15 ft of water. I'm thinking I'm gonna throw a big. 5-7in swimbait and just run it any thoughts. The swimbaits I plan on using will be a basstrix rainbow trout style. Looking for any insight as to how to approach northwood it's mostly like a pool table really flat I'm thinking if I stay 20-30 yards off the shore all around its about 10ft water depth and I notice the weed patches tend to grow 20-30 yards off shore that are submerged. 

  Any time I've fished there topwaters kicked butt all day long, and i stuck with that,.Lucky? i dunno, but didnt question it.. (I love when that happens)  walkers for laydown, poppers for slight ripple, and torpedoes for stronger winds. They fight hard there, and this is one of my favorite NH lakes. I haven't fished it for about 6 years, as I needed the safe boaters course cert.,.. I got it last fall, and will return there soon as I get my lakes region fix in,...lol.  Plus, one of my brothers lives close by and he fishes to, so im sure its just a matter of time.

  If I recall spinnerbaits worked well there too as well as jerkbaits, My oldtime fishing bud, would switch from tops, as he liked to diversify his angling

On 7/1/2016 at 8:16 AM, Keith "Hamma" Hatch said:

  Any time I've fished there topwaters kicked butt all day long, and i stuck with that,.Lucky? i dunno, but didnt question it.. (I love when that happens)  walkers for laydown, poppers for slight ripple, and torpedoes for stronger winds. They fight hard there, and this is one of my favorite NH lakes. I haven't fished it for about 6 years, as I needed the safe boaters course cert.,.. I got it last fall, and will return there soon as I get my lakes region fix in,...lol.  Plus, one of my brothers lives close by and he fishes to, so im sure its just a matter of time.

  If I recall spinnerbaits worked well there too as well as jerkbaits, My oldtime fishing bud, would switch from tops, as he liked to diversify his angling

Jitterbugs and jigs worked this weekend at dusk i caught 3-4 bass 2 largies and 2 smallies they were only about 2lbs a piece, but man were they a blast to hit that jitterbug.

Gonna wake up early Saturday and Sunday mornings. And gonna fish from 4:30-10am. Gonna hit up Powder Mill Pond most likely on both days. Any recommendations on where to go in there. I'll be launching at the ramp on Forest Rd. Figuring it'll be pretty weedy was gonna throw a T rig and some top waters and a jig. Looking too see how this place is depth wise and structure wise. 

1 hour ago, MikeOGNR said:

Gonna wake up early Saturday and Sunday mornings. And gonna fish from 4:30-10am. Gonna hit up Powder Mill Pond most likely on both days. Any recommendations on where to go in there. I'll be launching at the ramp on Forest Rd. Figuring it'll be pretty weedy was gonna throw a T rig and some top waters and a jig. Looking too see how this place is depth wise and structure wise. 

When you take a right out of the boat ramp the first half of the pond is a ways down the river and is shallow with milfoil everywhere. Largemouth and pickerel in that side. If you go through the small railroad bridge the lake opens up to the other side which is deeper and does hold a few smallmouth too. If you check it out on google maps right now it is half drained so you get a good idea of where the main river channel runs through. 

Pulled a couple of decent Largemouth out of Kingston Lake last week. I think I got out a little too late though, because mostly pickerel were hitting the medium cranks. Any suggestions for fishing the hot times of day (Noon until about 3 or 4) I can never bring myself to fish open water with a deep crank, it just seems so counter intuitive to move away from the shorelines where you can see lillys, logs, and rocks. 

3 hours ago, nhbassin said:

When you take a right out of the boat ramp the first half of the pond is a ways down the river and is shallow with milfoil everywhere. Largemouth and pickerel in that side. If you go through the small railroad bridge the lake opens up to the other side which is deeper and does hold a few smallmouth too. If you check it out on google maps right now it is half drained so you get a good idea of where the main river channel runs through. 

Not to reveal any spots, but where abouts in the first section. Ever catch any big ones? 

23 hours ago, MikeOGNR said:

Not to reveal any spots, but where abouts in the first section. Ever catch any big ones? 

I fished a tournament there about a week after ice out so I focused on the big shallow flat that is on your left once you get to the first part where the river opens up to a pond. I ran chatterbaits right under the surface and got a few in the 2 pound range plus about 15 big pickerel. There are a few deep pockets mixed in near that area that may be more productive this time of year.  

Had a 15 fish day today in 3 hours.  It was a great day, I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

On July 8, 2016 at 11:40 AM, nhbassin said:

I fished a tournament there about a week after ice out so I focused on the big shallow flat that is on your left once you get to the first part where the river opens up to a pond. I ran chatterbaits right under the surface and got a few in the 2 pound range plus about 15 big pickerel. There are a few deep pockets mixed in near that area that may be more productive this time of year.  

Fished exactly in those deep pockets caught 2 pickerels and a small bass and my girlfriend landed this nice one on a 8 in black with red speck lizard t rigged. All other fish came on keitech swimbaits

Got out a couple of times.Fish were hitting Bomber Model A cranks (apple red crawdad)and Get Bit tubes(leech).Got my tube heads from a company in Mass. called Leadfreebassjigs.Nice jigheads.

Also this weekend was thinking about bringing the motor boat somewhere to fish. Thought about Stumpfield Marsh in Hopkinton. Anyone been here with a boat and hows the fishing? I read some of the previous posts of others and saw that more towards the middle is the best fishing anyone have any insight? Or any recommendations of places not far from Northwood NH area.

Got out early this morning 4:50 am till around 10 am before it got too hot.  Had a good day on the water and caught 9 fairly decent sized fish.  All fought hard so it was a blast.  I am really trying to make it out next weekend.  I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

Good weekend in all got my girlfriend on a couple fish and my 91 year old uncle got on a ton of smallies was a good hot weekend..... Best part of the weekend though landed my new PB for NH 6lbs 1oz largemouth on a hula popper she was a tank