Shore Report 3/23
 

Went shore fishing today afterschool. It was a half day today so we got an early start. Me and the old man started out at the Rancocas Creek at 2:00 pm. We fished there until 3:30 pm. I had a really bad start. The old man had 5 perch, 2 pickeral, 1 sunnie and some kind of baitfish. I only had 2 perch. All of the perch there except for 2 were over 1lb.(not both my 2:p ). All of our fish came on white Mr. Twisters. Then, we hit the small spillway. I had 4 perch there and my dad had 2 pickeral and 1 perch there all on Rapalas. We left around 4:30 pm. We had 18 fish in a little over 2 hours of fishing. Not bad for a rainy nasty day. It just wasn't my day:o . Hopefully I will be on Mirror Lake Saturday and Sunday.

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nice job kid today was my only day off and the rain scared me away from the lake guess i'm getting old :eek:

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Thanks Jmurr. I was suprised we didn't see any crappies. We typically would find crappies up there with a few perch mixed in. But 1 lb. perch are alright in my book:D .

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Aj Next Time Leave All Of Your Dads Rods At Home & You Will Win Hands Down Lol.

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Yeah apparently one of the rods I brought wasn't his. But he used his lite rod with 6 lb. test because of the lures we were using and still won. Hopefully you'll be getting more fish soon.

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Please send me 4 1lb perch and a few 11" plus crappies. I don't want to catch them, just eat them.

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Good one lol. If I get them, IM eating them fried:D,unless MISHIN FISHIN wants them.

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You are lucky to live around good panfishing. Monmouth County has relatively bad panfishing, everything is either sneaking into private water or catching loads of dinks.

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Mostly dinks here, was very glad to see those big perch. You either got a ton of dinks or some large panfish around here but nothing with size and numbers. Rainbow Lake, which used to be one of the best bass lakes in Jersey IMHO before the dam broke, now has good panfishing number wise and excellant size wise. Biggest sunfish I have ever seen, suprised because there aren't as many bass in the lake to keep them in check. Crappies will often mix in, and there are some decent bass still in there. Still, a ton of dinks will often equal a decent amount of fillets though.

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You have to be careful on Rainbow lake. They have different size and creel limits there. I'm not sure what they are but I know a panfish has to be big to keep it at rainbow