Raritan river, north branch, big brown trout!

[thmyorke1]

Let's start from the beginning of the day:

Nice weather this morning and I head to lamington. I hook into two rainbows at surprising moments but lose both of em on this blue+white 2 inch jerkbait.

I got a bit hopeless and disappointed but enjoyed hooking something at least.

I head to sporting life to take a break and then leave to a spot on the north branch I've recently gone to and saw fish.

I approach this big hole, and I knew this time to approach it a different way going around it and hitting the top of it first.

Toss out a floating rapala and moments later hook up. Big smallie. First of the season. Funny thing is a big momma was following the one I hooked. The other was well a +3 inches.

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Fish it a bit more and another but smaller one:



My plans were to check out the river upstream of this hole.

A bit of a hike! No fish in site so far.

I was almost to the spot I wanted to check out from maps view, but came across a very nice looking hole.

One of those deep slow moving holes beneath a cliff face.

I toss a black marabou jig inside, and as I reel it back in a big brown trout comes rushing it!

Misses first bit it kept chomping for the jig!

I hook up and it's a fun fight, more than that first smallie.

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I guess the hike was worth it. Definitely a fish to remember.

All fish released back.