Raritan North Branch near Bedminster - good multi species day for a noobie

[Pode]

I had my best day fishing yet today! I fished for a a couple hours leading up to sunset and multiple entrances to the North Branch in Bedminster and Far Hills. Around sunset I was about to give up, but saw the tiniest line of foam a bit downstream... I walked along the bank then waded across so I was downstream of the foam, then cast a trout magnet into the hole and BAM! Nice fat rainbow

I was considering keeping him for dinner, but I had half a calzone at home from lunch, and figured trout and calzone wouldn't make the best pairing, so I let 'em all go.

After that I caught 4 more fish from the same hole, all on the purple/pink trout magnet w/ a silver hook. My method was to let it fall, then jiggle it around a bit on the bottom (a method that thmyorke1 once showed me with a ned rig), then reel in a bit, raise it up to the surface, let it fall again and repeat. All but one hit it on the fall, but the third guy (bass?) picked it up off the bottom. I called it a night when it got too dark to see.

I'm still a bit of a noobie when it comes to identifying fish other than rainbows, but I think two of them are bass of some kind (which would be my first bass ) and one is a sunfish? I wasn't sure if it was the "green sunfish" that I'm supposed to "destroy," and I didn't want to kill a fish on a hunch, so I let him go.

Next step: work on my fish photography (fishtography?) skills.