Rising Sun Lake 9/10

[AJFISH13]

First report since the computer crashed. Fished several times while it was down and had anywhere from poor to excellant fishing. Decided to give Rising Sun another shot today after a slow first trip there back in July during the heat wave. Here's the report. Hit Rising Sun today. We got on the water at 9:45 am. We worked the shoreline and down the center. Trolling rapalas down the center produced a nice mixed bag while fishing the shoreline only yielded 2 bass. We got off the lake at 1:15 pm. We combined for 22 bass, crappie, pickeral, perch and sunfish. Overall a nice mixed bag for a lake we thought wasn't worth fishing. Plan on hitting Stone Tavern tommorow. Plan on working the shoreline for bass and maybe looking for some crappies that are fattening up for the winter. Been getting some real nice crappie lately, including one on Tuesday that was close to the 2 lb. mark.

[lunkertaker]

Originally Posted by AJFISH13

Been getting some real nice crappie lately, including one on Tuesday that was close to the 2 lb. mark.

SLAB CRAPPIE @ 2 lbs!. Man we used to catch all sorts of these guys in TN when I was younger. Caught lots of crappie here in NJ but most have been "skinny" guys, never caught a true SLAB since leaving the south.

Way to go AJ

[AJFISH13]

I caught him on Rainbow Lake. Had a 2 lb. slob on a popper back in July. Crappies in there get big, maybe they're mutant, they do have a yellowish tint . Sunfish are also monsters in there too, defintely related to the 7 in. size limit. Throwback size ones are rare, but we don't keep any under 8 in. even when we are giving them away. Crappies are rarely under 9" in there, mostly nice 10-11" ones. Everything is getting fat for the fall. Hopefully we'll get some crappies today, I know they are in Stone Tavern.