Post Your First Fish of 2021

[Lard Almighty]

Every season starts with Fish #1. Let's all post our first catches of the year to get things started off in 2021. Big, small, whatever!

Mine is a pickerel of about 12" on a swimbait from a local goose-toilet pond. It still might be the biggest fish I've ever caught from that place! :D Felt good to get the skunk out of the box early, though.

So what got all of you guys on the board to start the year?

[Mikey topaz]

18” slime dart threw the ice yesterday....https://i.postimg.cc/nCz5n71k/84258366-A546-45-BD-9-CEF-B8-DC1-AD907-E2.jpg (https://postimg.cc/nCz5n71k)

[FASTEDDIE29]

Great post Lard! My first catch is already posted up from yesterday. My catches on day 2 of 2021 are the state fish. I walked a lot today and loved every minute of it!!!:D

[thmyorke1]

Mine was a pickerel too! Also my 2nd. Pickerel should be the state freshwater fish, at least once the brook trout go extinct :eek:

[fishingbuddies]

Slip bobber.. 1inch gulp minnow..tipped with a gulp waxie..1/16th ball jig head. Bout 8ft deep. Allamuchy NJ.

[FASTEDDIE29]

My first fish were Trout. Not sure if the Brown or Rainbow came first. It was a fun day no doubt! :D
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/t599/fasteddie2927/AAE6770F-0A8D-4E03-B338-6E0E55ED74BE.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/t599/fasteddie2927/85282AD9-D406-44FE-AF72-63B5EAA9E4B6.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

[Codguy]

First fish wild rainbow. Fish 2 jumbo rainbow. First time fishing New Years Day think I have a bee tradition

[NJ219bands]

Caught and released two white perch in 40 degree water this evening in the cold rain. Not fun.

[DanH]

A Raritan River Rainbow!
https://i.postimg.cc/WzfsTBJg/0401201104.jpg (https://postimg.cc/PvZgMFy5)

[saxmatt]

I caught my first fish of the year this morning. Thank god it wasn’t a pickerel.

[thmyorke1]

I caught my first fish of the year this morning. Thank god it wasn’t a pickerel.

LOL
That pike is grand, from ice? cool :cool:

[JDTuna]

New Jersey wild brown

https://i.postimg.cc/YS93CWnQ/20210101_173437.jpg

[Lard Almighty]

Loving all the posts so far! NJF is really getting the year started off with a bang!

[Jigman13]

I caught my first fish of the year this morning. Thank god it wasn’t a pickerel.

Beefy pike, Matt. Nice fish man!

[dakota560]

Nice landlocked. Beautiful, healthy plump fish. 3 for 6 for the day.

[MaCe1]

Finally landed one.

[NJ219bands]

Caught and released 6 white perch in a 38 degree lake this evening with Walmart red worm halves on two hooks and a jig. A brown bullhead big enough to win a NJ Skillful Angler Recognition Award broke my line and stole my rig. I’ll bring a net next time.

[NJSquatch]

i drew an iced snot rocket as my first fish. hoping the ice sticks around

[nate01]

Got a couple trout yesterday, here was the first of 2021

[Hookmanski]

First fish of the year was this beauty of an NJ wild brown :)

https://i.postimg.cc/RhFkD1sm/IMG-2067.jpg

[AndyS]

Smith river Virginia. I look at it this way, it can only get better :D