Just throwing this out there

[fishingbuddies]

When I go out fishing, I start with a 3' gulp minnow on a small weedless jig. Or if i'm feeling the snunk, this is my go to bait. It's the ultimate Snunk buster cause it's small enough for dinks under a 1lb (ive caught plenty of ambitious panfish too like bluegills and pumpkin seeds ) and it's still a decent size bait to land any other size fish. Many 2-3lb LMB and SMB have been taken too. I prefer the black top with pearl bottom. If this color isn't working, I switch to green top and white bottom. Sometimes it's a matter of switching the color for the day. We fished Echo one morning and not a single bite for hours. Even with my trusty black/white minnow. I simple switched up the color to Green and white (same minnow) and BOOM, the fish started to bite and we landed 10+ LMB and LMB. My cousin followed my example and switched to a green Gulp worm with white belly. BOOM! 3lb SMB.
It's a matter of finding out what they want at that particular time.

[MrGerbik]

Yes that makes sense. Just that as i said with my job situation and money being how it is i am limited on my baits. Most of my baits are limited to white variations, black variations and pumpkins and only 1 of each. My research tells me that these are the safest colors. Once i get working again I'm gonna treat myself big time

[Fred E. Goose]

Have you gotten over to White's Pond in Waldwick? I still haven't but the one day I saw 2 kids walking with fishing gear and talked to them about it, sounded like a good lake. Zabriskie's Pond in Wyckoff has nice crappies and small bass, but there's almost always people fishing it, it gets tough. Glen Rock has the Saddle River County Park with a nice little lake, and if you're physically able to walk a bit you can walk the paved trail along the Saddle River (very shallow here) to a couple of pools that people fish for bass, trout, carp.

If you're fishing monksville from land, I'd suggest parking at the ironworks museum building and either walking the trail behind it to the foot bridge or walking along the road and fishing from the rocks on either side of the Greenwood Lake Turnpike. Were you at Monksville today, I showed up around 10:30?

[MrGerbik]

Personally i have found Whites to be the worst spot of all the ones ive hit. One of the very few locations that i haunt that ive never caught a fish at. At monksville i was hitting the south boat launch area. Zabriski i only went once and it indeed had a lot of people. There was an older gentleman there and he said he had been there all day with senkos and got skunked. I tossed a feog around for a bit and left. I am only 32 so I'll climb a mountain if it means a good spot. Ill look for the museum next time and work from there. Ill do anything at this point. If anyone is going fishing on their boat and dont mind having me along I'd be grateful too. I'm not even a murder or anything so there is no worry haha

[Jigman13]

Sounds like a murderer in denial to me. Caveat emptor! Lol.

Bergen is foreign to me so all I can offer are snarky remarks lol

[MrGerbik]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

Sounds like a murderer in denial to me. Caveat emptor! Lol.

Bergen is foreign to me so all I can offer are snarky remarks lol

It's only murder if you get caught my good sir

[Fred E. Goose]

Originally Posted by MrGerbik

Personally i have found Whites to be the worst spot of all the ones ive hit. One of the very few locations that i haunt that ive never caught a fish at.

For real? Man, I had high hopes for the place, just never got back there. A lot of people that I talk to when I'm fishing Ho-Ho-Kus Brook or Saddle River ask me if I've ever tried Whites.

The museum building is the old building with the dirt/stone lot on greenwood lake turnpike (ringwood ave) past the north launch. Coming from the south launch, it would be on your right hand side.

I'd offer to fish with you, but I'm not sure when I'm heading out again...busy the rest of this weekend and next weekend, which is why I played hookey and snuck out there today.

[MikeNJ]

Originally Posted by skippy

You don't need a trout stamp to fish for trout, you just can't keep them. I would hit Darlington Lake in Mahwah. Big fish in there and you can catch them on rubber worms and crank baits. Just watch out for the all the weeds.

I believe you need a trout stamp if you are going to keep trout OR fish for trout along with your valid NJ fishing license.

[MrGerbik]

Originally Posted by MikeNJ

I believe you need a trout stamp if you are going to keep trout OR fish for trout along with your valid NJ fishing license.

It was my understanding that you need the stamp to fish waters that are trout stocked but I'm not sure

[Fred E. Goose]

You can fish any public waters with just the fishing license. You can not keep or directly target trout without a trout stamp. If you're fishing trout stocked waters and someone asks you what your fishing for, if you don't have the trout stamp then DON'T SAY YOU'RE FISHING FOR TROUT! LOL, also don't use bait like salmon eggs or "trout magnets". You're fine throwing roostertails, worms, small minnow type lures.

Gerbik: I thought of another nice lake you can shore fish from. Franklin Lakes Nature Preserve (Used to be Haledon Reservoir). Buddy of mine does well there on a kayak, but there is a lot of nice shore access if you're willing to walk around the trails.