New Hampshire and Maine Fishing Report – March 4, 2021
March 4, 2021
If the forecast holds true you may be doing something you haven’t done in a while, namely working up a good sweat! Next weeks 50 degree predictions are one thing but the real reason is that March ice fishing is getting hot!
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Imagine your first drop of a jig through the ice on massive Lake Winnipesaukee and coming tight to a 2 1/2 pound white perch! Odds are pretty good that subsequent drops would be largely anticlimactic but for Clamcorp Pro-team member “Drew”, while fishing with Tim Moore of
TimMooreOutdoors, the fun was just getting started! White perch fishing is at its peak on Lake Winnipesaukee and not very far behind is some impressive fishing for lake trout and cusk! Tim and the Clam crew are cranking them in from only 30’ of water in shallow basins. Smelt stuck below Clam Tip-ups are working as is jigging Clam pink blade spoons.
New Hampshire and Maine Fishing Report – January 28, 2021
Cold weather is boosting ice-fishing fortunes!
Favorable temperatures are having a corresponding effect on anglers’ ice-fishing fortunes as bigger lakes are finally beginning to catch. There is even word that at least one of Maine’s iconic smelt camps expects to be in business by next week!
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Jim from AJs Bait in Meredith said that almost overnight additional parts of Lake Winnipesaukee are locking up. The latest is Meredith Bay, where shanties and even a tractor (tasked with clearing snow for hockey) have been observed on the ice! Most everything that swims in this big lake can be caught in Meredith Bay. Anglers are catching lakers and white perch in Center Harbor and there are reports of 5 inches of ice in the Long Island stretch on the right-hand side of the bridge. Regarding other water bodies, most of Newfound Lake has been good as has at least the north end of Winnisquam where anglers