Fishing Reports by Capt. Joel Koch

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report June 15, 2003. Usually I don’t like to go out on a Sunday but I had a special Father’s Day trip planned for Scott, his wife and Mother and Father. Originally we planned on going out on Friday but of course the weather report was lou more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report June 12, 2003 Good Quality fish are in the rivers and bays of NH. Went out on Wed. and Thursday with 2 guys on vacation from Vt. and they limited out both days and caught a number of smaller fish as well. All of the fish were nice more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report June 3, 2003 Fished with some of the guys from Atomic Snowboards who were in Portsmouth for an international meeting. Fished the Piscataqua river with cut bait. The fishing was good, and everbody caught a few fish. Largest fish of more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing report May 30, 2003 Fished the morning tide, and caught a bunch of stripers with 3 keepers to 30 inches. Still didn’t see a lot of surface activity but the sun was out and the temps were the warmest they have been for a long time. Mark, D more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing report May 27, 2003 Looked like we were finally going to get a break in the weather, on Tuesday so I decided it was time to venture out. I was surprised that there was no surface activity as the sky was overcast when I got out around 10 A.M more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Striped Bass Move into NH May 15, 2003 Stripers have moved into the New Hampshire Seacoast and Rivers. With the cold winter, and not so perfect spring it seems like it has taken forever for the Striped Bass to move up to NH. Well they have more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - End of the season With the cold weather approaching and the fishing slowing down it appeared that Oct. 14th would be a good day to pull the Reel Ecstasy out of the water and get it ready for the winter months. We had a great season though, and more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing week ending Sept 29th. On Wed. and Thursday the Blues were all over Piscataqua river busting baits on the surface. Casting Plugs, spoons, rubber shad imitations or flies all produced 3-4 lb Blue fish with an occasional small Striper mixed more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Sept 24th. Fishing in the Piscatqua River, Blues and Stripers were on the surface busting baits. Caught a bunch with plugs with thin wire leader. The blues were small 3pounds or so but a lot of fun. Switched over to chunking and caught more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Sept. 19th. Caught 25 stripers of mixed sizes today. Many smaller schoolies but we did land 3 keepers chunking in the river. In the early morning small schoolies were busting baits on the surface and stayed up till about 10 a.m. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth