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3 Day Winnipesaukee Report

I spent last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Lake Winnipesaukee. I probably spent a total of almost 30 hours fishing the lake during that time. The fishing was fantastic. Every trip out we would pick up at least 10 fish. A majority of the fish were cookie cutter 15" salmon and all were very healthy and very fiesty making some valiant runs and leaps into the air. We also picked up some bigger fish including several nice healthy lake trout up to 20" and about 3 lbs. The best fish of the weekend was a 3.38 pound rainbow trout, the only rainbow trout of the weekend. I also hooked up with a 4 lb smallmouth that was quite feisty.

Now for the good information you can use this weekend. All of the fish were caught on DB smelts and top guns. We did not fish much live bait. The fish all came between 10 and 15 feet down. Two of the best lure were a copper backed wonderbread top gun and a orange and black zigzag DB smelt. I also caught alot of fish when it was brighter on the blue/silver with pink stripe DB smelt. Also caught some fish on fuzzy green. As odd as this may sound alot of the fish were caught on the downriggers as they seemed to be hot hot hot. We had the otter boats out too and they definitely produced some fish. The avg. water temps were between 45 - 48 degrees.

Good luck to all this weekend!!! I am jealous that I will not be out there with you as I will be at a wedding in NJ. Hope that someone from the board takes home a new boat!

Re: 3 Day Winnipesaukee Report

Nice report thanks for the info.
BARRY

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The smaller fish go for the spoons pretty good, bigger fish like the live bait, but it's like watching grass grow.

Most popular Derby bait is smelt by far.

Big John

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My own tied flys have been working well also this spring,can't really say what they are cause I never named any of them.Did name one after Throbbin rods that is working quite well,It has caught more fish than you might think with a name like that!!!(just kidding Bill)
BARRY

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If I was fishing the derby this weekend I would probably fish some live bait for at least some of the time. Like you said though John its kind of like watching paint dry gets boring fast going 1 mph or less.

My other problem with live bait is it is so finicky and dies so easily. Drives me nuts.

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fishRman
If I was fishing the derby this weekend I would probably fish some live bait for at least some of the time. Like you said though John its kind of like watching paint dry gets boring fast going 1 mph or less.

My other problem with live bait is it is so finicky and dies so easily. Drives me nuts.


Don't tell anyone, but I tried live (again) this past Friday, no luck of course, maybe I go too fast ???? But out of the 2 dozen smelt I bought, 4 died and the others lived for almost 3 days in my insulated bucket before I let em go. I put a zip lock bag with ice cubes in the bucket and added a little lake water each day (which is realy too warm now) I was realy surprised how long they lived. I had the insulated bait bucket in a cooler too. So I have keeping them alive dpwn pat, catching fish with them I'm still light years away. My advice would be buy a bag of ice cubes and a few times a day fill a zip lock bag with ice cubes and put in in your bait bucket, insulated buckets are best. Never add fresh water or ice directly to the water in the bucker, instant death.

I applaude those that faithfuly use them in the spring, you will catch bigger fish most times.

Big John