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FASTEDDIE29
09-02-2019, 03:41 PM
Saturday-
Caught my fresh live bait on the Musky and accidentally caught 2 Rainbow Trout. It’s August and the western streams are running cool. Lots of surface action out there in the late afternoon. 1 of the Trout looked like a fall stockie and the other was about 24 inches long, silver and looked like a Steelhead. Lost that one at my feet unfortunately. Haha! What’s a net?
Flatheading was slow but managed to land twins at about 15 lbs. a piece. Not bad considering I haven’t been hitting it hard this year. They put up one hell of a fight that’s for sure. The first one ripped lots of drag. The second one just had one good long run and tons of angry head shakes.
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Sunday-
Hit the back bays, Channels and inlets for Fluke. Caught some shorts on the incoming tide but couldn’t buy a keeper. The tide switched to outgoing and again with that east wind I couldn’t catch a fish. Seemed to be the same for everyone I talked to unfortunately. This hurricane will probably shut down the season depending on the storms track. Wound up with 15 shorts to 16 inches in 9 hours of fishing. That my friends is horrendous! Just terrible! I usually do well from land this time of year. Ahhhhhgggggg bummer!!!

Monday-
Hit the Pike grounds in between rain storms. Not much moving for me and the water was super low. Did manage to catch 3 Pike around 30ish inches or so. Very feisty little guys were jumping all over the place when hooked. I’d like to thank my fellow NJFers for saving me a few small fish! Lol! Weekend well spent and finishing it off with a rack of baby back ribs slow cooked on the grill.
TIGHT LINEZ FELLAZ!!!:D
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thmyorke1
09-02-2019, 03:49 PM
My dad and I were drenched from the rain today. Rain was really unpredictable throughout the late morning, got heavy then turned off. Nice flatheads and fun looking pike. :)

JDTuna
09-02-2019, 05:55 PM
Sweet buddy! Looks like you got a bit of everything in this weekend! Great work as always!

AndyS
09-02-2019, 07:15 PM
Kewl !!!

AndyS
09-04-2019, 08:12 PM
Pics of the trout next time too !!:D

antgogz
09-04-2019, 08:18 PM
Nice caddies. I was hoping to see pics of the trout plus the baby back ribs Eddie!!!!

bigfishy
09-04-2019, 08:45 PM
Pics of the trout next time too !!:D

It didnt happen!!!

FASTEDDIE29
09-05-2019, 09:53 AM
It didnt happen!!!

Trout are easy to come by this time of year in NJ. I’ll post a pic of a wild Brown on a 9/0 Catfish hook this weekend hopefully! LOL!!!

bigfishy
09-05-2019, 10:01 AM
Everything is easy fer you Ed...you da man!!!

Chrisper4694
09-05-2019, 12:27 PM
some serious flathead mastery right there...just tell me how you catch them during the day! i can barely catch them at night!

Jigman13
09-05-2019, 09:22 PM
Trout are easy to come by this time of year in NJ. I’ll post a pic of a wild Brown on a 9/0 Catfish hook this weekend hopefully! LOL!!!

Please share that lol.

thmyorke1
09-05-2019, 09:37 PM
Please share that lol.

As long as it's rigged on less than 4 hook points, all barbless, there's no problem :D :D :p