Multi-species rolled into one post - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

Chrisper4694 · #1 07-18-2019, 12:59 PM

Haven't had a chance to post here in a few weeks so here's a bunch of trips rolled into one...

Did some summer crappie fishing (one of my favorite things to do) but it wasn't quite as good as we've done in past years. Don't get me wrong, we still had a handful of 14" fish and probably a dozen plus 13", but summer time is usually good for a few 15" fish and even more numbers as they're stacked pretty tight most of the time. Had a few big 9" sunfish by-catch, as well.

Tried muskie fishing one more trip before the water got warm but only came up with one big pickerel. I straight armed the crap out of it so I could pretend it was as big as a muskie hahaha.

Of course a few lake trout jigging trips with plenty of nice fish, but here's just one pic of probably the nicest one.

And last, but not least, took a quick pike fishing trip that yielded one thick shouldered nice gator.

JDTuna · #2 07-18-2019, 03:08 PM

Sweet multi species action! But I think you forgot to post another fish!

oelgnal1 · #3 07-18-2019, 04:59 PM

Nice catch-in and a couple of weeks ago we ran into a bunch of spawning 9" BG's but only 1 or 2 PS. As a youngster back in the 50's and 60's we would catch foot long BG (huge) one after another while fishing for trout in 40 fow but I haven't any that size in over forty years.

icebadger · #4 07-18-2019, 08:35 PM

those upside down crappies are hard to catch well done

that is a nice bunch of fish you got there.. that slime dart does look like a musky in slime dart colors. cool report.

Chrisper4694 · #5 07-18-2019, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JDTuna

Sweet multi species action! But I think you forgot to post another fish!

i did?

Chrisper4694 · #6 07-18-2019, 10:56 PM

This one? biggest crappie of the trip got lost in the mix of ridiculous pictures.

Chrisper4694 · #7 07-18-2019, 10:59 PM

oh no wait...you probably meant this one! new 'Sexy Crappie Men' magazine cover submission

thmyorke1 · #8 07-19-2019, 09:13 AM

Pickerel are fun sized musky afterall.

Nice collection of crappie too. You sure had some fun with them it looks like

JDTuna · #9 07-19-2019, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

This one? biggest crappie of the trip got lost in the mix of ridiculous pictures.

No, I'll give you a hint...it was bigger with more teeth!

FASTEDDIE29 · #10 07-19-2019, 01:56 PM

Awesome mixed bag homie!!! Beautiful fish as always! But why must the Crappie be upside down? Unreal! It’s a contagious disease traveling the web! Hahaha!!!