New Hampshire Fishing Reports

Week Ending 9/6/08 - Two weeks ago was a bad week of fishing with only 8-10 stripers caught on each trip. We always caught fish but not up to our usual good success. This week the fishing picked up again and we caught 20 or more fish on most trips. A few blue fish wer more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

NH Striped Bass Fishing - Week Ending 8/23/08 Striped Bass Fishing remained consistent this week. Most days yielded 20 or more stripers, with one or two bluefish hooked each day. Sometimes the blues were brought in and sometimes cause we werent using wire they bit off on t more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

NH Striped Bass Fishing - Week Ending 8/16/08 Still plenty of Striped Bass caught aboard Reel Ecstasy, slow trips yielded about 20fish better trips up to 40 fish. Couple of Blues have found there way into the river now as well. Tight lines. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Striped Bass Report - After last weeks rain storms the water was a muddy brown. The fish were still around but they must have been finding our bait by smell cause they certainly couldn't see anything. This week the water started to clear up and for the most part fis more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Striped Bass Fishing week ending 7/27/08 - The week started out good with nice weather and good fishing on Monday and Tuesday. By Wed, the weather started to roll in and rain. Thursday was the first day this year I canceled a trip and thankfully I did as the rain, and lightning never let up more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Striped Bass Report 7/20/08 - Fishing this week was good to great on most trips. Not many keepers but certainly the numbers of fish were way up with 20-50 striped bass caught on most trips. The fish are still selective but by making a few modifications to our tackle the numbers more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Striped Bass Fishing NH - Fishing Report Week Ending 7/13/08 Fishing the last two weeks for Striped Bass has been a roller coaster ride. The days before the 4th of July were good with numbers of fish between 20-30 on each trip. Nothing really exciting occurred only a r more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Fishing report week ending 6/28/08 - Fishing has been consistent the last week or two for Reel Ecstasy. On average we get 20 fish on a 4 hour trip, 30 fish on a 6 hour trip and 40 fish on an 8 hour trip. This seems to me to be weird but within a fish or two it is how the last 10 trips more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Week Ending, 6/21/08 - Mixed Striper fishing this week, on Monday there was a big storm coming through, and the fishing was just plain slow. My crew and I decided it was best to call it a day after a couple of hours and reschedule for another day. This was the first time more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

6/14/2008 Report - 6/14/08 Stripers were a bit finicky this week, while we were still catching 20-30 fish each trip but from what we were marking on the depth finder it was apparent there were a lot more fish to be caught than we were catching. On one trip, we could more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth