Smallmouth

murph · 05-24-2008, 10:25 AM

Hello,

I'm going up for the weekend and I'm just wondering if the smallmouth have moved up to shallow water yet.

Jonas Pilot · 05-24-2008, 05:25 PM

They are in Murph,

Went out a couple of days ago and caught them on jig spinners, soft and hard twitch baits and curly tail grubs. Biggest fish was 17" and fat as pig. Water's still a little cool. Most fish were in around 8 feet. Each day should find more moving in. We need some warmer nights. It's been real windy.

Good luck and tight lines!

murph · 05-26-2008, 09:40 PM

Didn't even get a chance to check the forum again before I went up. But just wanted to let you know now that I caught a shoe box full of fish. Right around where you said. (8-10 feet) When up and fished the graveyard for a little but as always it was packed with boats so I moved back out of the neck and went down to the Bear/Pine/ Beaver island area and caught a bunch. Not one under pound and a half. I was fishing with a 5'' senko and threw a 4" grey and red speckled strike king tube bait also. Fished sunday and monday with no complaints at all.

Summer is finally here!

Colt · 05-27-2008, 08:28 AM

Went out Sunday and all my hotspots around Meredith neck produced nothing. I'm glad someone was catching them.

Jeff Furber · 06-04-2008, 08:24 AM

Just got back from Winnie, this past weekend, 29-30,31st of May....

We fished out of Brown's Boat Basin mostly, visiting various islands with in 15min ride of Browns.
Water was cold still, 55deg on the surface and 51deg 10ft down. We fished shallows and down to 25ft, depending on the area. Some spawning fish were in, not a lot of beds and some were empty.
On Friday we caught 15 smallies in 3 hours, after trying various lures to find out what they were in the mood for. Mostly jerkbaits and spinnerbaits, not a top water bite anywhere.
All of the fish we caught were 16-18" and very fat with eggs and crawfish. We caught only two fish under 14". On Sat we got two on topwater(buzzbaits) but they only wanted tubes on the bottom. We did catch some spawners in the 18" range. I also got a 4lb, 19" fish off of a hump..... you should not over look humps as there are some big fish on them, if the weather and wind and boat traffic allow.

Sat and Sunday we got 20 fish per day, again all in the 17-19" class, some from under docks and most in rocky area's away from beds.

Got very windy on Sunday morning and it made it tough fishing off shore structure. Two of my friends were fishing the Dow, Whortleberry, Devin Is. area and saw schools of small smallies roaming around, that area always warms up first, in general.

These were the conditions last weekend, this week and next week could be completely different.

If I could figure out how to up load a few pictures I would... if anyone would like to email me there address I can attach some pic's..... jeff

05-24-2008, 10:25 AM	#1
murph Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Westford/Meredith Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Smallmouth Hello, I'm going up for the weekend and I'm just wondering if the smallmouth have moved up to shallow water yet.

05-24-2008, 05:25 PM	#2
Jonas Pilot Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire is my home, 24-7-365 Posts: 1,686 Thanks: 1,047 Thanked 336 Times in 189 Posts	Bronzebacks They are in Murph, Went out a couple of days ago and caught them on jig spinners, soft and hard twitch baits and curly tail grubs. Biggest fish was 17" and fat as pig. Water's still a little cool. Most fish were in around 8 feet. Each day should find more moving in. We need some warmer nights. It's been real windy. Good luck and tight lines!

05-26-2008, 09:40 PM	#3
murph Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Westford/Meredith Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Thanks Didn't even get a chance to check the forum again before I went up. But just wanted to let you know now that I caught a shoe box full of fish. Right around where you said. (8-10 feet) When up and fished the graveyard for a little but as always it was packed with boats so I moved back out of the neck and went down to the Bear/Pine/ Beaver island area and caught a bunch. Not one under pound and a half. I was fishing with a 5'' senko and threw a 4" grey and red speckled strike king tube bait also. Fished sunday and monday with no complaints at all. Summer is finally here!

05-27-2008, 08:28 AM	#4
Colt Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 43 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Go figure Went out Sunday and all my hotspots around Meredith neck produced nothing. I'm glad someone was catching them.

06-04-2008, 08:24 AM	#5
Jeff Furber Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hopkinton, Mass Posts: 34 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Smallies are in Just got back from Winnie, this past weekend, 29-30,31st of May.... We fished out of Brown's Boat Basin mostly, visiting various islands with in 15min ride of Browns. Water was cold still, 55deg on the surface and 51deg 10ft down. We fished shallows and down to 25ft, depending on the area. Some spawning fish were in, not a lot of beds and some were empty. On Friday we caught 15 smallies in 3 hours, after trying various lures to find out what they were in the mood for. Mostly jerkbaits and spinnerbaits, not a top water bite anywhere. All of the fish we caught were 16-18" and very fat with eggs and crawfish. We caught only two fish under 14". On Sat we got two on topwater(buzzbaits) but they only wanted tubes on the bottom. We did catch some spawners in the 18" range. I also got a 4lb, 19" fish off of a hump..... you should not over look humps as there are some big fish on them, if the weather and wind and boat traffic allow. Sat and Sunday we got 20 fish per day, again all in the 17-19" class, some from under docks and most in rocky area's away from beds. Got very windy on Sunday morning and it made it tough fishing off shore structure. Two of my friends were fishing the Dow, Whortleberry, Devin Is. area and saw schools of small smallies roaming around, that area always warms up first, in general. These were the conditions last weekend, this week and next week could be completely different. If I could figure out how to up load a few pictures I would... if anyone would like to email me there address I can attach some pic's..... jeff