Raritan river 6/4:

[AndyS]

Fished the pipe in South Bound Brook for a while, couldn't buy a fish in the fast water I heard a splash behind me in the slow water and thought it was probably a carp, I threw my lure over that way just for the heck of it. As I was reeling in a huge smallmouth crushed my lure with about 4 ft. of line out, I saw the whole thing. I paniced and opened my bail The fish took off and leaped 5 ft. into the air, waved a fin at me, shook his head and he was gone I did find one of the fallen heros from the spring shad run.
I left there and went up to the falls for a bit, wading out trying to do recon on all the bombers we lost there in the spring, couldn't find any and didn't catch anything. I did see a 10lb. carp trying to jump up the falls, I guess he thought he was a trout or something.
Went up to the shale flats in Duke Island Park for an hour or so and couldn't even find a left over stockie
I'll put up a bunch of photos. None of fish.

[AndyS]

1. standing on the pipe
2. upriver
3. pipe
4. pipe
5. fallen hero
6. pipe
7. snake
8. down river from falls
9. falls
10. looking at the bottom of the fish ladder
11. shale flats

[Moz]

You had a beautiful day out for some nice photos.

Nice snake but I'm all snaked out already, I've seen more in the last 3 weeks than I saw all of last summer. I now understand where the expression "hissy fit" comes from as I scared the crap out of one (and it me even more) and the thing slid under a rock and just kept hissing in a real pissed off way even after I gave it a wide berth and had walked away.

[FASTEDDIE29]

NICE DAY! Andy you should be an artist! GREAT SCENERY!!!