Fishing Reports by Capt. Joel Koch

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending 6/27/2004 Once again we had a fantastic week striper fishing aboard the Reel Ecstasy. Some days the fishing was so hot we stayed in one spot the whole day and continued to catch fish. Each trip this week yielded at leas more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report 6/19/2004 Great Fishing continues to be the norm for Reel Ecstasy patrons. Last week we had a number of big fish being caught including a 40 inch fish and BJ's 43 incher caught on 15lb spinning tackle. Most days we caught 15-30 more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report, 6/9/2004 Warm weather has certainly started to heat the fishing up. We have been getting keepers every day now and on Monday got a nice 38inch fish. It was a graduation present trip for Seth, who has been accepted to the college o more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 37 incher caught despite the bad weather. Fishing Report; Week Ending 5/30/2004 This week’s story was all about the weather. If it wasn’t raining, it was windy, really windy. Oh yeah, I think we had one sunny, nice day thrown in to keep us fr more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Stripers arrive in New Hampshire Fishing Report May 17, 2004 Well the Stripers have started to arrive in NH. Like all good snowbirds the Stripers spend their winter in warmer waters and head up to NH to spend the entire summer. They know where more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - End of Season Wrap Up Report It was a great fishing year for Capt. Joel and “Reel Ecstasy”. Every trip resulted in Striped Bass caught. For the second year in a row we were not skunked. Few other charter boats offer guaranteed fish trips and our more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Finally got a boat back in the water and went out fishing the Piscataqua River with some folks from England. We found about 20 fish using chunk herring with 4 keepers in the 30 inch range. There were a bunch of schoolies up on the surface for most more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report 9/11/2003 Been off the water for a week or so due to a blown powerhead on the boat. Finally got to go back out fishing today. Went out with Rob and Chris both local police officers who came right off the night shift to go fishing. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing reports August 19th. Last week had a number of great days fishing including a 12 keeper day on Tuesday and a 7 keeper day on Thursday. We were fishing in the Piscataqua River on incoming tide using Chunk bait. Many other fish were caught b more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report 8/8/2003 Fishing in the Piscataqua River and surrounding areas remains good despite the rainy weather we have had over the past week. Having a large bimini top gives us the ability to go out even when the weather is not great. On more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth