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I saw you guys getting off the water just as I was getting on.
I found the fishing to be really slow yesterday, but I manged a couple of bass and white perch. The Largemouth I caught appeared to be still holding eggs.
In terms of angling-hours per-acre , Spruce is probably the most over-fished lake in New Jersey and possibly the world. Luckily, New Jersey Fish & Game stocks plenty of fish in there like Catfish and Hybrid Stripers. I'm not sure what would become of that reservoir without the constant input of stocked fish.
I've met people who have traveled all the way from New York City to fish there, although I don't understand why.
Lure companies that make a big deal about the over-fished bass lakes in Japan have probably never been to New Jersey and have definitely never been to Spruce. On a weekend in the summer, the boat launch parking lot looks like the Walmart parking lot with boat trailers.
All I can say is thank God for NJ Fish & Game and anglers with a good catch-and-release ethic or that lake would be reduced to sunfish and carp within a year or two.
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