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slimecoat · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 1576 Location: Newington, CT.

Pointing Dog and I with a friend hit these 3 lakes again this year. We fished on 5-24 through 5-26. All 3 lakes had fish still on beds, but plenty of empty beds already. Lots of spawned out criusing feeding fish that were caught too. We found both largemouth and smallmouth on beds. We caught approximately 140 bass over 3 days of fishing, the biggest was a largemouth over 4lbs. The majority of the fish were 2.5 to 3lbs. Some smaller, some bigger, but we had a great time. They will hit anything up there, but we fished mostly tubes, and oddball color creature baits that we needed to get rid of. Caught some on topwater, some on jigs, spinnerbaits, etc. The water temps were anywhere from 68 degrees to 76 degrees depending on what body of water you were on.

Most fish were spawned out from the early warm up this year, but there were still fish on beds if you were willing to look for them. But GOD was it hot this year, we went through almost 2 cases of bottled water in 3 dyas of fishing, and plenty of sunscreen.

Pointing dog has all the pics. I'm sure he'll post some of them when he gets back in country.
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Fishface · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 308 Location: New Britain

Quite the productive trip. I caught my personal best Smallie over 4lbs. in the channel between the Squams. Crayfish colored jig. Good trip Slime.

Tim

hoppy · Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 393 Location: congamuck

squam is a smallie factory. stayed there for three days and slayed it every day.
we found some real good largies up in rattlesnake cover on our trip. outside of that is smally after smally after smally. i have never been through so many soft plastics in one trip. like piranhas!

slimecoat · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 1576 Location: Newington, CT.

It truly is an amazing place. That is why we just bring up crappy color plastic baits that we don't use much, they will kill anything when on beds.

We found a couple very productive banks on the northern end of squam, but numb nuts forgot the lake map so we just marked the most productive spots on his GPS.
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hoppy · Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 393 Location: congamuck

we rented a place on little squam and fished there the 1st day. if i remember correctly some of my bigger smallies came from little squam. big squam was just amazing for numbers but the quality was down atliest for the smallies. the largies i found were all mostly solid 3 to 3.5 lb fish that hit like freight trains. never found another good largie spot. i spent alot of time fishing the many reefs and found just about everyone full of willing smallies. awesome place to go.

slimecoat · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 1576 Location: Newington, CT.

Absolutely, we have caught some decent largies on beds in 2 different coves on the big side of Squam. I don't have the map in front of me, so I can't tell you exactly where. But we have caught average size smallies 2 to 3lbs on Squam, and never have bothered to fish little squam.

The best lake for size and a good mix of both species is definately Lake Ossipee. That place is unbelieveable, and well worth the 45 minute ride from Squam.
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