NJ Fishing Advertise Here at New Jersey's Number 1 Fishing Website!


Message Board


NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey - View Single Post - Suprise lake
Thread: Suprise lake
View Single Post
  #9  
Old 07-07-2012, 03:10 PM
Eskimo's Avatar
Eskimo Eskimo is offline
NJFishing.com Old Salt
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Basking Ridge, NJ
Posts: 1,489
Default Re: Suprise lake

Quote:
Originally Posted by tycomps
grew up in new providence, lake surprise used to be known for pickerel. wish they had put fountains in and stocked it after the dredging project. fishing was always best at the dam end.
Me too. Surprise Lake was an important piece of my childhood fishing.

It's very fertile water that still produces fish despite the extremely high fishing pressure. The bass rarely get a chance to grow very large because many of the 'urban anglers' never release a fish big enough to cut a fillet from.

That being said, I have seen a couple of very old, wise bass swimming around in there in the spring.
Reply With Quote