Honest Answer Please

This has been a funny post from beginning to end, first the soup nazi comment was funny! !! This is a fishing forum! When you ask for help and these GREAT guys offer up there spots and what they use to catch them what the water temp was, how deep so on .....MOST JUST SAY ,THANK YOU!

9.4

did you really sign that post with 9.4 mikey, hahahaha your crazy bro!

This has been a funny post from beginning to end, first the soup nazi comment was funny! !! This is a fishing forum! When you ask for help and these GREAT guys offer up there spots and what they use to catch them what the water temp was, how deep so on .....MOST JUST SAY ,THANK YOU!

9.4

haha, Is this gonna be a problem if I am different from most of the people?

Ya I did!
My point being I wouldn't have 9.4 without the help from a GREAT GROUP OF GUYS FROM THIS FORUM!

9.4 Mass state record 2011

Wily these guys are a great group of fisherman, to see them make these comments about you already seems like maybe you should try a different approach? ??

What's that old saying... you get more bee's with honey than you do with vinegar

Best of luck

I have a feeling we aren't ganna hear the end of the famous 9.4 this season haha

Your the king of hill now,
Someone is ganna knock you off!!! Whos it ganna be!?

I'll tell ya what though, you gave me a goal this season (even though it is every time I'm fishing)

poor David Ahola gets no love. lol

simply put....the better spots usually require a little more effort. Areas with easy access, comfort, obvious 'hot spots', and lots of pressure....well, there's enough of those places around. I think I will stick with the Haverhill area, for obvious reasons. Willy....maybe Chelmsford is better for you. Good Luck.

The photo on my profile is obviously a nice fish. Not a 9-4, but nice! The place is shore access only. My son and I fish in a tough area to access. While fishing this spot, we can see many others fishing and area just off the road (easy access), with much worse results. The day the photo was taken, my son caught 5 bass weighing 18-8...yes, all on digital scale. A few days later my heaviest 5 weighed 19-8. All caught in November, and during each trip we exit the spot with a plethora of cuts, scrapes, thorns, etc.. Still well worth it.

Right so I will slap my two cents in here...

As mentioned some of you guys wouldn't have the fish you do if not for the help of this forum and the great bunch of guys...all this guy is asking for is the same help. I think it sadly got out of hand due to miscommunication in the beginning. Far as i can tell though he isn't asking for a "cheat sheet" but a bit of help to figure out a new water..how the water works etc...I don't think that is any more unreasonable then many of the..."heading to so and so what have you guys been catching on?" or "What depth do you fish such and such a lure at?" "Where can I park to fish blah blah blah"...and so on.


That being said I haven't seen anyone mention tides either. Haverhill sections are tidal and planning a trip around this may be benificial as deeper water while the tide is coming in will help you avoid prop damage and slow the current...

That said the Haverhill section is mean over all..but can be worth it if you want to explore and tough it out. There is a great section you may wanna research on google with a large island that used to be a golf course, the back channel tween the island and the mainland can be productive with a mostly sandy bottom and lesser current over all with a lot of fallen/collected debris cover..though be warned there is one low area where a rock wall used to connect the island to the mainland, only passable during high tide and even then could be damage. Your better to enter from the Eastern downriver side over the western up river side...check out google maps and I am sure you'll see what I am speaking of.

and your right Kman he doesn't lol!

O and Meatballs..man I call BS lol..I am chock full of vinegar and I've made it through life just fine

thanks for the info. Lived in Haverhill most of my life and never tried the area behind the island. My son keeps talking about it as we drive by on Water St. Will have to give it a try. Do you catch mostly LM there?

This has been a funny post from beginning to end, first the soup nazi comment was funny! !! This is a fishing forum! When you ask for help and these GREAT guys offer up there spots and what they use to catch them what the water temp was, how deep so on .....MOST JUST SAY ,THANK YOU!

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haha, Is this gonna be a problem if I am different from most of the people?

I think we all agree it was a misunderstanding

Since we are on the topic of fishing haverhill. Do stripers ever get up that far. I have a aluminum boat and would love to get some stripers without going to salt water

thanks for the info. Lived in Haverhill most of my life and never tried the area behind the island. My son keeps talking about it as we drive by on Water St. Will have to give it a try. Do you catch mostly LM there?

Np, I do a lot of carp fishing out that way as well and have had a good chance to explore it over the last few years. I've bagged quite a few nice Smallies as well back there..nothing huge but a few in the 2-4 pound range from time to time. If you hit it in the late spring you will start to see huge schools of mossy green bait fish swimming in and out of the many weed beds along the shores. I dunno for sure what they are, but it may help you to know they are there! I've seen some big splashes there as well, some bass, some carp and some stripers...

which brings me to that. Yes I can say without a doubt that stripers come in through this section..I'd say typically around Late June july they start showing themselves. They may be there sooner, but I see them much more regularly, especially in July. You will often seen some great jumps and crashes in the main channels during just before high tide and as the tide starts to move out.

Haverhill is also the section that the shortnose sturgeon breed at due to the rocky bottom. You can't target them but I have seen a few 3+ foot long fish come clear out of the water in this stretch. Awesome to see.

This might sound like a dumb question but is that area freshwater or brackish, I have a aluminum boat and steel trailer so I dont want any corrision issues. Also hooking up with a sturgeon is quite the fight I caught a four footer a couple years ago salmon fishing in the niagara river.

Seems mostly freshwater. It is tidal, decent sized tides as well with some strong current but mostly freshwater. I'd imagine that changes past Amesbury, and places like the Joppa Flats would be more brackish..but I've never been down that far.