All good things must come to an end.

Capt. Joel Koch
October 4, 2010
Portsmouth - Saltwater Fishing Report

End of season fishing Report 2010.
Well the time has come and I have pulled "Reel Ecstasy" out of the water. 2010 was an interesting and challenging year.
The beginning of the year was best using live bait. This required us to head out towards the mouth of the Piscataqua and fish for Mackerel and Pollock. After getting 30 or 40 we would head back into the river and live line them in the faster currents. These were exciting trips not only due to the striped bass fishing but for many fishing for the "bait" was good sport by itself. Due to the time required to catch live bait most trips were run for 6 hours with up to 3 anglers. Live bait were around in good numbers till about August. We did do a number of chunk bait trips when the fishing time was shorter or the number of anglers prohibited live bait.
After August, with the lack of live bait we switched exclusively to chunk bait trips. These were much better for shorter 4 hour trip and although not as exciting did yield a number of good stripers.
September rolled around and we were still catching striped bass but sea bass started to show up in numbers. These fish are generally not seen north of Cape Cod but we caught them. By mid September the striper fishing had slowed right down but the sea bass stayed active, with my last two trips each yielding over a dozen of these tasty fish.
Spending the winter fishing the areas around Venice and Sarasota on the Gulf coast of Florida.
Tight lines,
Capt. Joel
www.nhsaltwaterfishing.com

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