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Welcome to A.J.'S Bait & Tackle.
I purchased this business in 1997
from the Waldron family; it has been
in the same location for 50 plus years
located in downtown Meredith and
within walking distance from the
Meredith town docks.
I have been in the tackle retail
business since the young age of 16. I
have been fishing Lake
Winnipesaukee since the age of 5. My
passion for fishing and my
knowledge of the lake has been
essential to running the business; I’m
open 7 days a week and can be found
in the store 95% of the time.

At A.J.'s you can find ready to go combos I do this for a convenience to the
customer all you have to do is tie on a lure or your bait. I custom tie flies which
started out as a hobby and turned it into part of my business. I have the common
flies in stock or I can tie a customers own creation. I also work with Bill
Abrahamovich who is the owner of the moosalamoo shoe horn co. Bill has one of
the best salmon lures out there today, the TOP GUNS. I have known Bill for 20
years and we talk daily as to colors, whats working ,what I think will work and he's
always willing to do custom colors for our lake, and our customers. I'll take a
certain fly and tell him to incorporate those colors on a lure and we have some of
the best looking lures out there. Any new colors are tried by myself as well as
charter captains. Bill also has a dodger that works well with my flies, and he makes
verticals and horizontals for an attractor. Also for the Ice fishing season I custom
make jigs for lake trout, these are done from scratch I melt down lead and pour into
molds from there I paint the heads, next I tie on bucktail, then paint the eyes which most
eyes are a two color eye. My jigs have a variety of shapes; sizes and colors. I also have
tip ups jig sticks and cusk lines all ready to go all you do is add bait.
The most important part of my business is talking with the customers and finding out
their needs for fishing what the want to fish for, where they want to go, and what they
need, from there I set them up, point out a hot spot and away they go, most return a
happy customer. I even will install the electronics I sell whether it be a fish finder or
downrigger. This is what I loved to do and makes very happy customers. Stop in and
check it out.