Summer here in New England just doesn’t seem to want to come around this year as the weather is reminiscent of Seattle’s weather with days and days of rain. Rained most of the holiday week and this kept any type of fishing to a minimum as we are also way below average on air temps as well.
Water temps are way down as well with 68 degrees for the highest that we could find for this dark stained water. This lake in New Hampshire that we are fishing had been void of weeds the last few years but they have definitely made their presence known once again this year.
Fishing has been fairly tough with not knowing if they are still in their shallow mode as we fished a number of deeper locations and the bite was very tough. Word was that nothing had been biting yet much this season but we really enjoy fishing this lake and were ready to give our hand at it a try.
Finally found a couple of fish on a rock ledge face fishing with a Carolina rigged BearPaw’s hippie swim tail in the largemouth bass color pattern. Working this combination slowly through the weeds and picked up a smallmouth and a largemouth bass. Fishing depths in the area were from 10 to 12 feet of water and little wind in this cove as well.
Moved to a few other spots with no luck and went to an area that we did fairly well in the winter months. Didn’t take long and caught two more largemouth bass on the same combination and fishing this in 6 to 8 feet of water right in the weeds. These four fish were the only ones caught but from talking with other anglers out there, we were fortunate to catch those.
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