[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by jimmythegreek

bob the problem with the salt is its so expensive all the way around. Houses are crazy priced, then u really need a boat to do any kind of serious fishing, theres a very short window for the surf guys. I personally love the boating aspect of fishing, its like 60/40 for me, i cant stand sitting on shore or in the water fishing, unless its a hot bite and theres action. And remember wallenpaupack is alot bigger but the ratio is prob less than hopatcong is, for the size lh is the boat #s are insane, yet all the regulars manage to put good catches of stripers and some eyes all year long, even mid summer on weekends. You go do ur damage before sunrise to 9-10ish and go about ur weekend like normal, i do it all summer long. If you wanna cast and fish shallow like u stated, ur not gonna be catching stripers and walleyes in the summer very often, thats a fact, not in a lake anyways. U have to do some type of trolling, whether deep water live bait/lures or working weed edges bottom bouncing for eyes. The fishing u mention is river fishing, its not even close to the same thing. To fish big water u need a proper rig, and the proper electronics to have consistent success. Fishing aint cheap even if you stand on shore, tackle, rods, and lures/bait is pricey, add in fuel and boat and supplies and you gotta wonder sometimes. Hell i have 2 boats and bought the 2nd one just so i can fish the big water, i was getting beat up in my 16.5 side console, and theres days im beat up in the 19footer too, but i got fish to show for it problem is the best fishing is usually in the big water and thats where the yahoos wanna do 50 w 3 engines, no respect for us. There isnt a smaller no wake lake i kno of that has it all like lh does, lh has every species of fish we have in nj and plenty of them, we need a 9.9 or electric only that has it all around here just for the fisherman, and make it no kill too!!

This!!!!