Fishing Reports by Capt. Joel Koch

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 8/12/07 Striped Bass fishing remains good with average catches of 30-50 fish per trip. Almost all are under the 28 NH size limit but they all fight great on light tackle. There are a few small blue fish mixed in, mainly when fishing d more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 8/4/07 Striper fishing remains HOT for those that know what they are doing. Every trip is yielding 35+ fish. Smaller stripers still dominate but this week did yield a number of keepers. Pogies have moved into the river and maybe this more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 7/28/07 Plenty of Stripers still the norm with a couple of smaller blues mixed in. Most fish sublegal with many in the 25-27inch range. Every so often a larger fish makes his way to the boat but the smaller fish are so agressive right more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 7/15/07 Great weather this week with a lot of Striped Bass caught on each trip. Also had a couple of lost hooks to small bluefish, their teeth are sharp, and a few in the boat if the circle hook was lodged just right in the corner of th more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 7/7/07 Plenty of fish this week with the occasional over 28 keeper size striper mixed in. The Tall ships were in port in Portsmouth and that is always a nice side trip when we want to take a break from fishing. Most reports I have bee more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week ending 7/1/07 Words for the week Hot! Fished two days with temps close to 100 degrees. Still caught a bunch of striped bass (most days over 30) but it was more comfortable motoring around then fishing. Caught a few blues this week as well. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 6/24/07 Wind was the buzz word this week, lots and lots of it. Made it hard to fish at times depending on which direction the wind was coming from vs the current. On each trip however we did manage to find a few spots holding numbers more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 6/17/07 Nothing of great interest to report. The weather for most of the week was mixed, overcast and wind, midweek was cold 52 degrees. We got a lot of fish each trip at least over 30, but not a lot of action with big ones. If we ha more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week Ending 6/10/07 First full week of fishing. Monday was raining the whole day but my hearty crew from Vt. was there to catch fish. Kevin and Casey got about 35 with the main struggle positioning the boat so we wouldn't drown in the rain. Monda more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - NH Striper fishing 2007 begins. Week Ending 6/3/07 The Striped Bass fishing in NH has begun. Over the last two weeks I was prefishing getting ready to begin charters and checking to see which spots were holding fish. With the first Charter on more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth