Covering ground.

[Esox Luciano]

Have covered a lot of ground the last few days and still have a spot to hit reserved for this weekend. Started out on the Saddle River in Lodi with my medium action avid and a single lure. Was able to land 20 smallies and bunches of panfish within a 1mile stretch, best 2 went 16" a piece, next was 15" & smaller, no pics.
Had a guest appearence by my boy A to get at some Larries so we hit up a secret spot that holds em & got rewarded quickly. While passing around the secret tackle we each landed about 15 a piece with the biggest being 19". Not a bad day at all!


Back down to the Dundee Dam under the falls throwing keitechs through the current and stayed fairly busy with panfish and smallies under the midday sun. Missed a monster catfish while throwing the same small keitech after setting the hook and trying to move him a bit. He bent the hell outta my jighead then that was that. Was able to land 13 pike and missed 3 more all while throwing the same old beat up spoon I pulled out of a snag & put a hook on. None ran too big at all but damn were they hungry for that raggity lure! This was the best smallie of the day at 17".

Had a free day to myself to take care of a few things then made good enough time to hit my other river friends. Brought some trash bags with me to put work in and totally killed it after the bite slowed down. Started with that same damn spoon and only got a dink for a bit. Changed up to the trusty homemade lure and it was game on. Caught 3 more while there & the 1st of those 3 ran the biggest at 37 1/2". Soo awesome when hooking up with my homemade gear, feels great!
Hopefully i can find a lunker or 2 this weekend!