Angler1

Take a look at the tours scheduled for Winnisquam this year. Every single solitary weekend, on a lake that CANNOT take that kind of pressure. This lake has seen an incredible decline in quality smallmouth fishing. In a tour last fall only (1) 8 fish limit came to the scales. Sadly there was a time 5 years ago there would be (5-10) 8 fish bags in the 22 plus range and up to 25 pounds per 8 were not uncommon. With 20-30 days out there a season fun fishing, I have seen it decline 10 fold. Maines lottery system is something that NH needs and MUST adopt, to control number of Tours per season, on our precious NH BASS waters. Maines fishing now after fishing up there for 10 years and comparison to NH waters now - Maine outranks NH by leaps and bounds literally.