Lets See Your 2018 Catches!!!!

[ScowardNJ]

Had a good year, could always be better, but coulda been way worse. Finally got to catch my favorite fresh water fish through the ice. Nothing big, but good numbers. The yearly Walleye count rose from 39 total in 2017 to 45 in 2018. 42 eyes hit the deck of the Mugger in 2018 down from 52 in 2017. Started with decent NJ Ice fishing. Took a ride up to Onieda also. Had a couple great spring trips during the herring spawn. Banner day mugging the Tin Can jigging summer lakers. Also had a great late fall trip with 20 eyes caught but nothing too big. Got down to the Keys a couple times this past year hooking into some Wahoo and Black Fin. Got in a few NJ inshore trips chasing the usual suspects. Ended the year with my second ever muskie and PB.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Scotty!!!!!

[Chrisper4694]

idk how to make a collage, but here are a few of my best from this year out of state. epic sized walleye and almost a dozen big ass brown trout from NY. Also, mission accomplished on a giant white sturgeon from Oregon.

[Chrisper4694]

I state, I spent most of my freshwater time hunting the, possibly extinct, 31" lake trout and had plenty up to 29.5" but never landed the monster i was after... and my pursuit of other species def suffered from the obsession haha.

still had some great fish, including my first dd fluke at 31" 11lbs, some big NJ bass, beautiful tiger and pure strain muskie, and some nice sized tog to close out the year on the NJF togathon (techinally i mugged eddie and scott, but they deserved it)

[AndyS]

I tend not to save many photos

[bigboy5522]

Year started off great with a nice NJ musky through the ice. There was an incredible spring striper bite which I got my personal best NJ striper from shore around 20-25lbs. The fluke bite was decent at the start of the season and went downhill from there. Albie fishing was crazy from shore but the fall stripers didnt cooperate. Finished off the year with some NY trout.

[NJSquatch]

My favorite thread of the year!

This year was about quality over quantity. Just missed my goal of catching 5 NJ skillful angler fish that included my PB Hybrid @ 25.5" and PB Waldo @ 27"




Conducted night ops with Chrisper and JDTrout during the early spring herring spawn and landed some nice fish.




Got out a couple times feeding Chrisper's addiction hunting deep water predators and broke my PB 3 times in one day in the early fall. Man was that an Epic Day with the boat landing ~20 fish. PB Lake Trout @ 28"




Spent the summer harassing Greenies and Brownies on the Big Pond and Lake George where I totally got owned by my beautiful wife.



She caught a ton of beautiful smallies, a 10" bull pumpkin seed, and a #$%# 25" Lake Trout on that stupid NED rig!



Well at least I had the boat in the right spot.

All fish released for others to enjoy! Hoping for a productive 2019. Tight Linez!

[Pdog]

Clearly I’ve got to get to know some of you guys and learn where to go. 😝
Nice catches guys. I’ve got no notable NJ catches yet, but looking forward to 2019.

[FASTEDDIE29]

2018 goes down as the year I fished the least. Lol!!! Gotta roll with the punches and get out when you can!!! Great pics and TIGHT LINEZ to ALL!!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

It was actually a really good year of catching when I made the time to get out!!! I don’t travel often and my son has baseball on weekends 6-8 months out of the year. Lol!!! Gotta love fatherhood!!! There’s nothing better. I’m happy with 2018 just with the weather didn’t suck so badly every other weekend!!! For real!!!
#njfishing #straightoutofjerzy except for the steelhead, hehe!!!