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MFF US Northeast => New Hampshire => Topic started by: psleeser on Aug 18, 2005, 10:09 AM
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Just moved from Pensacola, Florida and loving it up here. Mostly been fly fishing for trout . The natives tell me that hornpout is the best eating fish up here but most folks don't go out catching them. I live in Epsom near Northwood and Pleasent Lakes. My issue is access to a hornpout hole in this are. I have no boat at this time so I am stuck fishing on the banks. In addition there is little in the line of literature on catching these catfish cousins. I know us fisherman don't like giving out info like I am requesting. However, I did work in Gray's Tackle in Perdido Key for many years and we would help many a snow bird with fishing tips and locations. So time to reciprocate don't you agree? Thanks in advance. Phil the phishn phool.
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Phil, I don't think cathing brown bullheads or hornpout should be a problem.My sons and I primarily use two baits for them.Nightcrawlers on the bottom are there favorite food but chicken livers on the bottom work well also.I'm not familiar with your side of the lake but if you ever get to the east side of the state lake wentworth off of rte.109 in Wolfeboro has some nice hornpout.As far as the best eating fish up here thats debateable.Hornpout does'nt taste anything like there southern cousins.Try a nice batch of white perch if your looking for tablefair,or come down to the beach for a couple of nice 40"+ striped bass!
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The catfish up here will eat most anything! Try anything that is bloody or gross and the cats will eat it, or even the glow in the dark maggots (their fake maggots).
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Does anyone know where a good place in the Claremont area for catching some GOOD size hornpout? I'm looking for the 12" or so kind. I heard that Milan Pond in Washington has some nice pouts does anyone know if thats true? I used to go to Crescent Lake in Unity years ago and was nothing to catch a boat load. Any help would be very appreciated.
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hey psleeser ... freezes pond is right down the road from u thats a hornpout hot spot !!!1 give it a shot let me know how you do .... good luck
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when i was younger we fished for horn pout all the time. we use to chum the water with cat food and then just use a standard worm and hook. we fished a place called long pond in errol, nh and we would catch hundreds of horn pout. you could leave those babies in a bucket over night with no water and they still would be ready to go the next morning. every pond has them and just look in a clarks or gazetter.............they will tell you where. as for the best eating fish up here...........walleye
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Jibbs where are you catching walleye in NH. I've fished all the places where NH F&G say they've stocked them and I haven't seen one yet. I can't even see them on a fishfinder. I think they are just a urban legion up here.
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island pond in vermont
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are there any good spots near or in epsom, hooksett, manchester, deerfield, concord, candia, northwood, auburn or bow?
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Jibbs where are you catching walleye in NH. I've fished all the places where NH F&G say they've stocked them and I haven't seen one yet. I can't even see them on a fishfinder. I think they are just a urban legion up here.
CT River in Hinsdale, NH just above the dam. ;)
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are there any good spots near or in epsom, hooksett, manchester, deerfield, concord, candia, northwood, auburn or bow?
Right where you caught your lunker pickerel is where the 1988 record came from ;) If I recollect, you also caught one shortly after the beauty!!
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AHHA mike told me you were on here dispy! and i found ya.
these are some nice ones i caught up in VT last weekend.
i heard patuckaway and some pond in auburn is good for bullhead.
the fish before we ate them.
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I love me some horn pout! Plenty of places 'round these parts.
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Phil,
Just about any pond around here has pouts. And don't listen to the nay sayers they taste just fine! However, the perch are pretty darned good, as well as the crappie, and if you can get the gills or seeds beyond 9" they are darn tastey. Warm shallow poorly oxygenated water are horned pout playgrounds. Use fish and games depth maps and you will be able to make an informed decision on the best spot. I'm down on the coast, I fish the Bellamy regularly in the winter and pull pouts thru the ice, and I know people fish them there at night (best time).
Oddfish
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Yep, night time, with a lantern or even car headlights from shore.
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I FORGET THE NAME OF THE POND IN AUBURN MIGHT BE PERKINS ?MILL POND MIGHT HAVE THEM ALSO ..BUT DUBIES IN HOOKSET IS LOADED AND IF BIGGER ONES ARE WHAT YOUR LOOKING FOR TRY PURGATORY POND IN HOOKSET ...
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NH F&G no longer stocks walleye. They don't bother because NH's geology isn't conducive to them. There is one place where they thrive, however. The CT River. From About Woodsville down to the MA border.
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What does this have to do with bullheads?
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I do well with a piece of hotdog on the hook
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I can add Hoit marsh on hoit marsh rd in Loudon/concord..
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Chicken liver hearts at night or stinky cheese balls at night and if get stung rub the slime on the belly on the sting site to stop the pain ;)
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haightdaddy called it with hotdogs. If pouts are around, they can't resist them! Most lakes and ponds in nh have them.
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They are natures vacum cleaners they will eat anything on the bottom they can digest I have chaught them on a mackerel jig off the bottom with worms on the river when I was a kid filled buckets anything that has a scent trail fun to catch I miss hitting the lake or river on a hot moon lit night tight lines guys post picks I might take my boy out for a few
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As everyone says they are in every pond or lake. Nighttime is the time to put your efforts in. As most any old timer (i`m almost there) will tell you find places where you get fish with white bellies, the ones with the yellow bellies are less desireable. A can of cat food dogfood tuna, tied securely to a line, punch holes in the can and throw it out , the dinner bell has rung.
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I caught one trolling in a pond with a Rapala!!
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I caught one trolling in a pond with a Rapala!!
yep, I caught one in Hlls Pond (Alton NH) on a hula popper at dusk. Too funny. Forever remembered and respected as "The Renegade Hornpout" . 'Eff this bottom dwelling, stink-bait eating, nocturnal bs! I'm hitting the high road and getting after the top water!'. One of the more surprising things that has happened at the end of a fishing line for me. As for best eaters, cusk. Gotta wait for the ice though....
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I caught one trolling in a pond with a Rapala!!
Ive caught them casting trout spinners and small tube jigs targeting trout. They will chase down a meal if they are hungry.
Weird thing is during ice season I've caught horn pout a few feet under the ice in 30 feet of water during the night........ ???
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What does this have to do with bullheads?
What it has to do with is this: Earlier in the thread, someone mentioned walleyes and how they didn't think there were any in NH because they'd never caught one. They also asked if the state stocked them. I was just following up, that's all. Don't jump ugly with me dude, just go back and read the ENTIRE THREAD and you'll see.
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But since folks want me to stay "on message" - here's a horned pout I caught in the CT river last year - not too far from where I caught the walleye pictured above. How'd I catch it? Trolling a perch-colored crankbait for walleyes! Yes, horned pout may be bottom feeders, but that doesn't mean they won't hit a crankbait every once in awhile.
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Big pout !
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Nice fish ,get the fryer reasy