Juro:
The area is definately coastal as the lamprey dumps into the great Bay. Both fish had thin caudels and forked tails, the jaw did not go past the eye, there were no orange or reddish spots to speak of and the fish were predominately silver with a dark green back (towards the shoulder). There were several small brown spots along the lateral line though not many. This is what initially led me to believe that they were browns however they had no red or orange spots on the the adipose and the teeth (volmerines were in a straight line. The lamprey is not on the NH list for stocking (salmon) so this has got me intrigued. Years ago - in the '80's - it was stocked with cohos and chinooks but these fish were obviously too small to remain from that group and I honestly don't really know how to ID one of those. I'll try for another and get a picture . As if that could happen :-). Another thing, the larger took flight, never, ever had a brown do that!
PaulH