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NorthJerzyG
04-22-2012, 05:07 PM
Got up this morning and decided to get a few hours in before the storm. Picked up my buddy and headed over to Barbours pond. After about 30 min I hit my new pb brown. Fought like beast. Has to be 5.5# or better.

After a few sunnies and a missed stockie we decided to head over to a Passaic River spot. Not much going on there until a nice size pike followed my spinner in and took it about a foot off shore and ran. After a quick battle I landed my biggest pike of the year so far. Not a bad day at all, other than the weather.........

http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i419/NorthjerzyG/IMAG0765.jpg

http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i419/NorthjerzyG/IMAG0768.jpg
Skunk City
04-22-2012, 05:14 PM
Nice man! I thought I've seen pictures of bigger pike from you though, I'm a little disappointed :D !
Tony Cav
04-22-2012, 05:17 PM
Don't look now but that looks like a landlocked salmon son
NorthJerzyG
04-22-2012, 05:25 PM
Nice man! I thought I've seen pictures of bigger pike from you though, I'm a little disappointed :D !

It might be a tie with one other I caught but the pic doesn't do it justice. Seemed longer than the other, but not as chunky.

I didn't think they mixed salmon in with the stockers but if it is someone let me know. That way I can cross it off the list of fish I've caught this year. Cause that's one I didn't think I'd get, lol.
FISHOFF
04-22-2012, 05:51 PM
Don't look now but that looks like a landlocked salmon son


Definetly not a salmon, a brown for sure landlocks don't have that many spots. The state doesn't have salmon in the hatcheries they are imported from Masachusetts I think. A real beauty, how long was it?
acabtp
04-22-2012, 06:15 PM
def. a brown trout, and a very nice one at that
FASTEDDIE29
04-22-2012, 06:40 PM
Thats AWESOME. Good catch on a GRIMEY day!!!
Hook I
04-22-2012, 07:00 PM
tail finn straight across ( Brown ) not like a > or Y as other trout / salmon
shucker
04-22-2012, 07:14 PM
Real nice brownie,pike aint bad either.
NorthJerzyG
04-22-2012, 08:46 PM
Definetly not a salmon, a brown for sure landlocks don't have that many spots. The state doesn't have salmon in the hatcheries they are imported from Masachusetts I think. A real beauty, how long was it?

Without a measure, 24/25 inches.
NorthJerzyG
04-23-2012, 12:00 AM
Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering. Even though the pike looks like a dented can, it took off with vigor upon release.
iceehot6766
04-25-2012, 06:15 AM
Nice trout outta Paterson.....I've gotten a few nice bass out of there through the years.....Congrats!!!