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Chrisper4694 · #1 05-19-2022, 12:32 PM

talked about it for a while, but finally pulled the trigger and signed up for the rvta contest saturday with mark and joe... we headed out into the pea soup fog with very little visibility and 30 minutes in, we did battle and landed the biggest lake trout weighed in the last few years and the biggest, fattest one i've ever personally seen in NJ!!

I'll post the picture, but just watch out your eyes don't get poked out haha (the other pictures we took didn't do the fish anywhere near justice) fish weighed 12.96 lbs officially and we were even able to keep it fully alive in the live-well and release it! This beast swam right back down on it's own after being in the live-well for about an hour which was actually surprising to me but the surface water wasn't too warm yet which i'm guess made a big difference.

thmyorke1 · #2 05-19-2022, 01:11 PM

crazy to see another big trout come out of RV, I dont hear about it much at least here

Congrats

DanH · #3 05-19-2022, 02:01 PM

WOW! Congrats on the win . I thought they said there where no more big trout in the Valley . lol. GREAT that you were able to release him !

bigfishy · #4 05-19-2022, 05:23 PM

Yes!! Two thumbs up on the release...

FASTEDDIE29 · #5 05-20-2022, 06:28 PM

Unicorns do exist in NJ! Well done! Great fish! Fish of a lifetime for some! Glad she’s still swimming and eating!!!

icebadger · #6 05-22-2022, 11:54 AM

Nice fish. congrats, see you finally pull the trigger and come up with a beast of a laker well done.. How did capt mikey miss that one

Esox Luciano · #7 05-23-2022, 05:40 AM

Hell yeah!! Congrats on the win and catch! Pretty awesome she got to swim sweet too.

Chrisper4694 · #8 05-23-2022, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Esox Luciano

Hell yeah!! Congrats on the win and catch! Pretty awesome she got to swim sweet too.

yeah, probably the biggest reason i don't do many contests, i don't have a live well in my boat. My buddy had a good one though, but was still pleasantly surprised it was doing perfectly well in there to release.

Rich196 · #9 05-25-2022, 12:35 PM

All I can say is..... HOLY SHIT, great job, if anyone deserved it it's you for all the work you put it. CONGRATS

Chrisper4694 · #10 05-26-2022, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich196

All I can say is..... HOLY SHIT, great job, if anyone deserved it it's you for all the work you put it. CONGRATS

thanks man, a lot of luck involved in this one, but always gotta be tipping the scales in a favorable way!