multi species report

[Chrisper4694]

I fished a bunch so i'm just going to jumble it all together short and sweet...

had a rough day a bit ago but after trying all the usual things we just randomly jigged flies 20ft in deep water and ended up saving the day with my buddies first lake trout (no pic) and a really nice hog largemouth for him aswell.



I hit up some more wild brown trout and my other buddy wanted to get in on it so off we went...my usual tactics weren't working so I gave him a little panther martin spinner and he whacked up two nice ones in the pools. his first ever browns. but then we saw one of the biggest stream trout i've ever seen in NJ! unfortunately it was dead...but i took a picture of it. most likely dead from mishandling recently it only looked to be eaten a little bit by crayfish or little eels or something but was still pretty fresh. It was 24" long and as fat as a football and a half. it's a shame it was dead, what a memorable catch and release that fish would've been





thanksgiving morning and sunday i went saltwater fishing (great days, i'll post that up in the sw section) but friday i went for smallies and eyes...my buddy had one average eye and 3 dink smallies on blade baits and i couldn't buy a blade bite so i switched to my jigging rap and started hammering crappies...it was silly fishing!

he then couldn't buy anymore bites from the bass or eyes so both just put a hurting on the crappie. 21 for me with 50% of them in the 11-14" range! awesome fun...though i kind of wish someone told me the liver bite on cong heated back up! haha. here's what happens when you've done nothing but fish between 2-3 hours of sleep for a few days...stupid face pictures!





saturday JDtuna and i went muskie fishing thinking they would be chewing the rainbows recently stocked...NOPE. skunked along with the other 3 boats there musky fishing...oh well. only pic i have is the cool looking rainbow trout lure i doctored up specifically for that trip! i should've taken that big dead rainbow with me and used that as bait! haha