Fishing Reports by Capt. Joel Koch

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing report May 27, 2003 Looked like we were finally going to get a break in the weather, on Tuesday so I decided it was time to venture out. I was surprised that there was no surface activity as the sky was overcast when I got out around 10 A.M more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Striped Bass Move into NH May 15, 2003 Stripers have moved into the New Hampshire Seacoast and Rivers. With the cold winter, and not so perfect spring it seems like it has taken forever for the Striped Bass to move up to NH. Well they have more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - End of the season With the cold weather approaching and the fishing slowing down it appeared that Oct. 14th would be a good day to pull the Reel Ecstasy out of the water and get it ready for the winter months. We had a great season though, and more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing week ending Sept 29th. On Wed. and Thursday the Blues were all over Piscataqua river busting baits on the surface. Casting Plugs, spoons, rubber shad imitations or flies all produced 3-4 lb Blue fish with an occasional small Striper mixed more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Sept 24th. Fishing in the Piscatqua River, Blues and Stripers were on the surface busting baits. Caught a bunch with plugs with thin wire leader. The blues were small 3pounds or so but a lot of fun. Switched over to chunking and caught more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Sept. 19th. Caught 25 stripers of mixed sizes today. Many smaller schoolies but we did land 3 keepers chunking in the river. In the early morning small schoolies were busting baits on the surface and stayed up till about 10 a.m. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Week ending August 29th. Fishing in the Piscataqua River is really starting to heat up. On trips this past week, we caught on average 30-40 stripers on each trip with a few large fish mixed in over 32 and a couple in the 38+ range. Most trips more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing August 21st and week ending August 18, 2002. Last week after continued temperatures in the 90’s the water temperature in the Piscataqua River was warm. I found that continued warm weather with no rain can hurt the inshore fishing especial more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report Week Ending August 10, 2002 With a little bit of cold weather the inshore striper fishing improved this week. We were still catching good numbers of fish in the Piscataqua River but after a week without a keeper it was great to ge more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth

Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Fishing Report week ending July 28 Fishing in the Piscataqua River remains great. The larger fish have moved into the river and we averaged 4 keepers on each trip this week. Largest fish of the week was a 34 with a couple of others real close. more...
Capt. Joel Koch - Portsmouth