Sunday on Pines Lake

[KRocks]

As many on this forum can attest, one does not turn down an invitation to fish Pines Lake. Ever. So a buddy of mine who lives there invited me for Sunday afternoon. It was a surprising slow bite but we managed a few bass and some chunky perch. One other guy we talked to got skunked. Was also surprised on how few people were out there when it was 75 degrees. Marked plenty of fish. The attached slob bass was the highlight. BTW, what does the survey say, is this a Larry or a Smallie? It looks an awful lot like a Smallie and I thought Pines only had LMB. I didn't have my measuring tape and scale handy but he measured about two and a half beer bottles, end to end.

Water temps ranged from 57 to 66, mostly steady at 59. I marked 43 feet as the deepest near to the dam. Do they stock with trout or would they just end up getting gorged by Mr. Pike? That depth could certainly support put-and-take and even holdover Rainbows as Shepherd Lake is not much deeper.

All in all, a nice day and we got off the lake just before that torrential rain came down. Tight linez y'all and Happy Halloween!

[tradingfrank27]

Nice day!!. You do not turn down any "private" lake invites in NJ, epecially some of the gems in North Jersey lol

[Skunk City]

Definetely a Smallie, they stocked them in there a few years ago. They spend a lot of money on fish surveys and bait stocking and it shows. They haven't stocked Pike there in a while, so the ones that are in there tend to be rather large.

[Mikey topaz]

That lake is a bass fishermens dream! If only those ibass360 guys could get in there.....🤔 9 times outta 10 is a largie all quality fish think the smallest one we ever caught was 18 inches

[FASTEDDIE29]

Pines lake??? Never heard of it! Nice Smallie though dude! Definately hard to confuse LM with BRONZEBACKS!

Where's this Pines lake? You got me curious!?!?

[icebadger]

nice smallmouth , they have big crappies in there too.sounds like a nice day.