Fishing near Atkinson in Rockingham County, NH

Check Prices

• culprut and gary
• P.bait
• White Power Eggs
• White power eggs.
• Pescaviva trout/shrimp/scopex
  Dat food scopex/cherry-choco-nut
  WCB Scopex pop-ups
  various Dat food Doughs
  chickj peas
  Sweet/spicy method mix
• tiki worms
• We used a variety of things. Chick peas and Dat food are staples now, never do I go anywhere without them. This trip I added Pescaviva "trout pellet" flavored sweet corn, Wacker Bait Pips in Tutti Fruity. The winning combo of the day was 1 chick on top of two sweet corn on a long hair.
  
  
• Chicks Peas are slamming them right now. Pescaviva corn trout pellet flavored is also producing. We always have DAT food as well and Maple peas
• This time around we kept it simple. Chick peas, Dat food and a good anise/pepper ground mix did the trick.
• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Clams
• Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
• Fresh live mackeral
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• Bobber & Shiner.
• Sea worm

Creature Check Prices

• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
• Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
• Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
• orange pumpkin with red and black flake, watermelon with gold and black flake creatures
  
  strike king crankbait
  
  white spinnerbait
• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• My 2 Bass were:
  14in 1lb 2oz
  12.5in 13oz
• all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait

Tube Check Prices

• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Minnow Check Prices

• Live minnows
• Live Minnows
• Live Shiner
• We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
• Live minnow
• Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
• hooked through back on tipup
• We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• pinners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Bone Zara spook
• 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• jitterbug
• rebel popr
• rebel pop-r
• heddon crazy crawler
• MS Slammer hitch

Lizard Check Prices

• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• hit while sinking
• Baby bass lizard
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• Caffiene Shad

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Chartuese w/ Green
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• Spinner Baits
  Jigs (Texas Rig)
• Dark Colors
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Ribbit frog
• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.

Stick Bait Check Prices

• powerbait nuggets
• Jerkbait
• Trolling main channel

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• White Rooster Tail
• 1/4 ounce
• Gold Vibrafox #2
• Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
• Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
• Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
• Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
• a couple of types of different of single hook only lures

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• shad darts
• Non-Keeper
• Sabiki rig, white

Terrestrial Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• just a pumpkin 7" worm and a gulp worm
• reeled real slow, weightless
• Wacky Senko Worm
• Green and Purple Power Bait 7" power worm. "the hulk". Caught a little guy. Maybe a pound but most likely a little under.
• Trolling a bronze 2-way spinner hook and rather large nightcrawler.
• PowerBait rubber worm
• 7" PowerWorm. Texas Rig.
• wacky-rigged yum dinger
• texas rig
• Weedless Texas rig with a rubber Zoom watermelon worm. Switched to a powerbait worm. There are some giant bass in this lake. The biggest bass of the day never made it to the boat. It snapped my 8lb line during the fight.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
• Dark senko texas rigged

Hard Baits Check Prices

• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.
• We each caught 5 Keepers each.
  Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.
  
  I also had three 1-1/4lbers
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
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Craw Check Prices

• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Spinnerbait
• Rooster Tail
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• sluggos
• Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
• Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
• Rubber worms frogs,spinners
  All worked

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.

Jigs Check Prices

• silver,green skirt
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• KVD Strike King Pumpkinseed crank
• Silver shad crank
• Bluegill squarebill cranks
• Blue gill crankbait
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• Black n blue jig n pig
• 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
• white

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
• Wolly Bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Sent to the bottom, just in deeper water than the first two.
• Sent to the bottom.
• Sent straight to the bottom and waited it out.

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.

Herring Check Prices

• chunks

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Daredevil
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Other Check Prices

• just your regular brand of hot-dog, essems are the fav.
• Shiners
• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• Dog food boilie
• Canned Corn
• again oatmeal
• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
• a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....
• Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.