How To's & Tactics (Updated 2.17.09) How-To's, Tutorials, and Tactics submitted by local New Hampshire area fishermen, hunters, and sportsmen! Plug building, fishing tactics, etc. For locals, by locals ! Would you like to submit your own How-To? You can! Just send it to webmaster @ marshmarauders.org (no spaces). We encourage Members to include their content & stories. Fishing tactics: Fishing with live eels by the "King of Eels" himself, Joe "Roccus" Brotz Big live eel fishing for striped bass thread To swivel or not to swivel? Teaser rigs Drifting Bait: Inside & Outside by Jon Merrill (.pdf) Rod & Lure Building: * NEW! - Eel skin lure building 101 Building Jigs by Joe "Roccus" Brotz (.pdf) How to build a Danny style swimmer How to make Trolling Tubes Pouring your own Bucktails & Jigs GENERAL NH STRIPED BASS TIPS Striper fishing in New Hampshire begins in May. Although "holdover" fish and a native population may exist locally, the stripers migration to NH still occurs, with the striped bass arriving in New Hampshire water around the first or second week of May. Catching a striper before Mothers Day in NH is always a good sign, and a great start to a striper fishing season. The early migration brings tons of schoolies to the rivers, bays and estuaries of NH. With the "Spring Run" of Alewives starting in May, some larger class stripers between 15 and 25 pounds will arrive after the schools of small bass. These larger striped bass usually arrive mid-May, and will often race up NH rivers in search of the alewives. May and June can bring some of the most productive striper fishing in the rivers of New Hampshire. In June, the "Big Girls" start to arrive. The big bulldozer striped bass arrive after the smaller class fish. These are the bass that we like to target with live eels and other live presentations. These are the "Bully Bass", and being properly geared for targeting these large stripers is crucial. We will get more into gear & tackle later. The myth of "no surface poppers till July" is just that, a MYTH! By all means, fish poppers like mad during the Spring alewife run in New Hampshire and surrounding areas. I have personally had record days fishing poppers under the high sun in May and June for striped bass upriver. TIP: Fish poppers in or near "skinny water", and around rocks or structure on a dropping tide. The more suds you see around the rocks, the BETTER! Run that popper right through the frothy suds. Stripers will often strike your popper, plug or lure violently, and very quickly. I have had violent strikes within the first 3 cranks of the handle while running the lure through the suds, often times the lure hitting the rocks, bouncing off, and being SLAMMED as soon as it hits water. Spring time is great popper fun when fishing the alewife run! With the return of the "Pogie", aka Bunker, the striped bass in NH again have another seemingly abundant source of forage. The past few years have shown a substantial increase in the amount of pogie schools and pods being seen. Last summer was great fun livelining pogies for stripers in Southern Maine. Pogies were also seen upriver in the Hampton Marsh. Seen, and caught. More coming soon! To be continued...
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