First post here and I just wanna say I love the forum so far. Lots of great info!! I live in Essex county and mainly fish in the passaic. Here's a few of the beasts, lol, that I've hauled in. These were last summer........
And, here's some baby pike I caught out of a mudhole about 50ft off the main river. Caught 12 altogether, released 10 back into the river and kept 2 for my troubles. After about a year they're thriving.........
I've also spent a decent amount of time at the newark watershed lakes, mostly Clinton and echo. Caught my best ever at echo!! Huge musky (no weight or measurement and pre smartphone), from shore with a quantum micro light. I sh!t u not!! Took me all the way down to the knot and jumped 2 or 3 times before I finally landed it. It was amazing!! Anyway, lookin forward to posting more catch of the day pics and seeing more of yours!!!