ice fishing the salt

[rickyriged]

Aloha.....driving down rt6 this week and was shocked to see the palmer river with a lot of ice built up around the edge ..so I drove over to the new bridge and could not believe my eyes and even more ice....and futher out it looked like the iice was straight across the river ....so I drove a little further and it was ........I'm thinking that I could actually  get a striper through the ice  not sure if that river has hold overs
Not even salt water or the tide could not stop the ice....and its always windy there

[jonserfish1]

palmer river has everything. awesome fishery. stripers, sea run browns, shad, etc... i think last count was 11 species anually going through the fish ladder at the end

[stripernut]

Some one must smelt fish it? And while smelt fishing throw a line out for everything else!

[rickyriged]

 11 species......wow...I have fished it a lot over the year mostly for blue crabs but have gottonsmall strippers blues ranging from snappers up to ten pounds white perch and some monster eels
I know the river travels well into rehoboth i have only fished the sectiun around the new bridge

[V Menzone]

Years back I was down at Watch Hill Ri and the whole area was frozen. I had my spud with me and there was 6in of ice. The problem with salt ice is that it is not strong at all. One wack and your through

[rickyriged]

Years back I was down at Watch Hill Ri and the whole area was frozen. I had my spud with me and there was 6in of ice. The problem with salt ice is that it is not strong at all. One wack and your through

I have never tried tried it....but it had me thinking itcould be done

[THE JIGGER]

I've iced fished tidal waters, the Ipswich river, Parker River, Rowley river, Essex river, Lamprey river,Great bay and the main river in Weymouth targeting smelts.
I've caught Coho salmon, Rainbows,Brookies, white perch, stripers, flounders and tommy cod.

[basst_]

Coho! Around here? When did you fish! In the 80s at the north river???

[Gfish69]

Go retro.....dust off the eel spear and fill a gunnysack of slimers for Christmas dinner

[boulderdash]

Go retro.....dust off the eel spear and fill a gunnysack of slimers for Christmas dinner

I did that a lot when I was a kid

[THE JIGGER]

Coho! Around here? When did you fish! In the 80s at the north river???

Back in the 80's