storm-recovery smbs

[thmyorke1]

Hope everyone here has their power back, I lost mine last week, Tuesday, but luckily it came back on after a few days.
There's a bunch of new trees and blowdowns to explore in the rivers at least lol

Last Friday night/Saturday morning since it cooled down we tried for muskie with some good success. Moved some , and had one hooked and fought for two minutes until it popped off. No worries! next one I hook will be bigger anyways. , yet that will be whenever it cools back down.




Tonight I checked out some shale/rock flats on the North Branch Raritan and found some bass shallow, think they were staging behind wherever the flat rocks had gaps and drops. They slammed weightless zoom trick worms.
Best 1 came out just under 16 inches. no shortage of 9 inch bass which was all I was expecting.

[Esox Luciano]

Good to hear the power's back on. Those winds were crazy! That muskie was soo damn close, I can see it's tail! That water's looking pretty damn clear, good way to beat the heat while searching for some fish. Some healthy looking smallies out there!! Nice pics!

[Hookmanski]

Another quality smallie post from the whisperer himself! bummer about the musky, but hey you'll get a bigger one. Hope you're doing well man!

[Stella blue]

Nice fish! Are you fishing from a canoe or a kayak?

[thmyorke1]

Originally Posted by Stella blue

Nice fish! Are you fishing from a canoe or a kayak?

this is Nick's canoe. For the smbs I was solo wading; in that part of the NB, I believe it's too skinny for a canoe + two guys, unless youre cool with scraping bottom and walking most of the way.
But anywhere downstream of the lamington confluence is good canoe water.
I think you can also get away with a kayak in the upper NB too.

[Stella blue]

Thanks!!