Fishing Reports by Capt. Joel Koch

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending 8/21/04 This was the week for the largest number of Stripers caught per trip. On most days we caught upwards of 40 Stripers per trip with a few Bluefish mixed in. Most of the fish were in the 23-27 inch range,but, except more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending August 7, 2004 The Bluefish have entered the river in large numbers and award us each day with their acrobatics and great fight. Most fish are in the 3-5lb range but every so often we get a larger one in the river like t more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report week ending 7/24/04 Striper activity continues to be great with catches each day between 20-40 fish. Blues have moved into the river as well and each day we hook up on a few in the 3-8lb range. Blues are great fighters on light tac more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending 7/10/04 Fishing remains great with a large population of Stripers having moved into the rivers and bays of NH. On most days we caught upwards of 30 fish of mixed sizes from 20inches up to 33 inches. We caught keepers eve more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending 6/27/2004 Once again we had a fantastic week striper fishing aboard the Reel Ecstasy. Some days the fishing was so hot we stayed in one spot the whole day and continued to catch fish. Each trip this week yielded at leas more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report 6/19/2004 Great Fishing continues to be the norm for Reel Ecstasy patrons. Last week we had a number of big fish being caught including a 40 inch fish and BJ's 43 incher caught on 15lb spinning tackle. Most days we caught 15-30 more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report, 6/9/2004 Warm weather has certainly started to heat the fishing up. We have been getting keepers every day now and on Monday got a nice 38inch fish. It was a graduation present trip for Seth, who has been accepted to the college o more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 37 incher caught despite the bad weather. Fishing Report; Week Ending 5/30/2004 This week’s story was all about the weather. If it wasn’t raining, it was windy, really windy. Oh yeah, I think we had one sunny, nice day thrown in to keep us fr more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Stripers arrive in New Hampshire Fishing Report May 17, 2004 Well the Stripers have started to arrive in NH. Like all good snowbirds the Stripers spend their winter in warmer waters and head up to NH to spend the entire summer. They know where more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - End of Season Wrap Up Report It was a great fishing year for Capt. Joel and “Reel Ecstasy”. Every trip resulted in Striped Bass caught. For the second year in a row we were not skunked. Few other charter boats offer guaranteed fish trips and our more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth