round valley

[tycomps]

wanted to make a trip this week to round valley since I haven't been there in 45 years. figured I'd do my usual up at 4 and on the water by 6 but I see on the web park hours are 8-7 after labor day. is this right? I've read reports of nighttime fishing and I'll be on foot so all I'd need is shoreline access.

[WormFisherman]

the 8-7 time applies to only the main entrance of the park. I never go this way, because of the time limits and the $10 dollars to park your car here. You should take the boat launch entrance, it's free to park and open all day for the most part.

[tycomps]

thanks. I'm looking for smallmouths, if anyone can give me info without spot burning PM me, appreciate it.

[bowzonly]

For exact spots to fish you should check out some other fishing websites where they are interested in giving out info that will help others. This one is mostly a brag board.

[tycomps]

It hasn't gotten that bad has it? I think that if you contribute info you get info. Not necessarily specific (spot burning) or in the public arena (PM me). I share information regularly with several members on the site and I'd like to think there's a mutual benefit. Unless there's another board that lists boards that list other boards that give out information like that? :D

ps- reading roundvalley.com which seems to be mostly trout oriented, I was looking more for structure/weed bed/shore access information pertaining to bass.

[jimmythegreek]

I was there on saturday but I only fished w the downriggers in deep water for trout. I will say the water is crystal clear, unbeleivable. I could see my flashers 45feet down. There isnt much weed and cover, to the right of the boat launches looked good and across the whole lake slightly to the left from launch was good bass habitat. I hit other lakes when targeting smallmouths, much better fishing there

[NorthJerzyG]

For exact spots to fish you should check out some other fishing websites where they are interested in giving out info that will help others. This one is mostly a brag board.

One thing I always use to do is forget check my pm's. Sometimes useful info in there.......

[tycomps]

thanks jtg,

I have a friend who lives across 31 in anandale that fished rv a lot for trout last year until he sold his boat so I plan on picking his brain as well. he gets bronzebacks at several spots I know of near his house on the sb so I'll have
a contingency plan as well.

[Wilson]

One thing I always use to do is forget check my pm's. Sometimes useful info in there....... Sounds like you are not aware of the PM "you got mail" notification.
To set it go to the user control tab. Under Options, there is a area that you can check off to receive a notification when a PM is received.
Just trying to help... not brag:rolleyes:

[Eskimo]

I've only fished Round Valley from the shoreline, too.
The problem, it appears to me, is that the reservoir's water is too clean. These pristine, oligotrophic waters just can't sustain a high density of aquatic life.

From the shoreline, the shallows look like a desert, completely devoid of all life except snails.

I've read that the Round Valley Trout Association has tried to stock the waters with alewife herring to create a forage base, but the herring eventually disappeared because there wasn't enough plankton in the water for them to feed on.

Tycomps, check you PM box.

[tycomps]

I was actually thinking that myself after just watching an HD video showing rv. the water almost looks tropical it's so clear. go figure, jersey water that's TOO clean!! njfg has netted some monsters though and does think the next record smb and lmb will come out of rv.

[AndyS]

"This one is mostly a brag board" :confused: Where did that one come from, try S.O.L. People on there ask for help and you can hear the crickets.

[tycomps]

Sounds like you are not aware of the PM "you got mail" notification.
To set it go to the user control tab. Under Options, there is a area that you can check off to receive a notification when a PM is received.
Just trying to help... not brag:rolleyes:

sharing user control info that others are not aware of is both egregious and bragadacious, shame on you :p

[jimmythegreek]

now that I think of it I didnt mark one single ball of bait fish the whole time out and I was using switchfire on max on my 998. I did mark quite a few fish in roughly 15 feet of water tho even out in deeper water which I doubt were trout the water was in the mid to high 70s, Id bet bass roaming open waters. I marked a few monsters over to the left dam wall almost at the bottom in 85 FOW but nothing big hit. I do know lake trout are damaging to baitfish population they eat like crazy, so the lunkers in there are dining on something, prob gamefish hatches

[Eskimo]

I read on one of fishing forums that the smaller mostly trout feed on tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans called Gammarus (Scud) that lives in the deep, cool waters of the reservoir.

[Moz]

Pretty tough to spot-burn at RVR but I've sent PM's to posters here on where they caught their reported catch and never had anyone fail to answer me. Alternatively I've had PM's inquiring on my posts and I've answered those honestly too. I guess you just can't win as there have been posts on here lambasting people for reporting too in depth on what's happening on the Raritan.

The RVTA stopped stocking herring last year and have been funding/stocking golden shiners instead. 14,000 were stocked in the spring of this year. The hope is because these baitfish spawn up to 4 times a year and don't go deeper than 30 feet the lakers won't be able to put the pounding on them like they have the herring population.

Catching smallies from the shoreline is tough. If you park in the boatramp area your best bet is from the causeway and being prepared to part with some lures in the rocks. I've seen some nice ones in the 3 LBS range cruising and every now and then follow my lure but they're very wary over there. The best I've done there was a pound and change (below) and that was in the dark using a glow in the dark rooster tail while targetting trout (that was in October/Novemeber).

I've heard good things about the campgrounds area too, never fished there myself but if you're ready to take a long walk that's a possibility.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o4/horatiorimshot/IMG_1903.jpg

[tycomps]

thanks moz,

I was trying to remember who said they were a RV frequenter at cat night and I thought it was you. think I'm gonna switch from hitting RV this week and hunt the RR instead for eddies "godfadda" since we got some rain. :D

[Moz]

I think tomorrow I might do both. :D

Hit RVR at daybreak, come home midday to take my son to his elementary school's openhouse, then bring him home and then grab the lite stuff to plunk around Robets Street in the afternoon.

[bowzonly]

Thanks Wilsom. I checked off the e-mail pm notification

[tycomps]

I think tomorrow I might do both. :D

Hit RVR at daybreak, come home midday to take my son to his elementary school's openhouse, then bring him home and then grab the lite stuff to plunk around Robets Street in the afternoon.

mind some company? What time will your hooks be in the water at rv? I was planning on hitting Roberts street in the afternoon too. I could meet you at RV then hit my friends on Wedgewood Ave for lunch while your doing your son's openhouse. Later we can meet at Roberts Street. Let me know. Thanks

Roger

[Moz]

Sorry I didn't catch your message last night. I was on the water at RVR at 6 AM today just in time for a torrential downpour that lasted about 45 mins. Glad I brought the rainsuit.

Sitting on the sofa now waiting for a break in the rain to go wet a line at Roberts Street.

[tycomps]

Sorry I didn't catch your message last night. I was on the water at RVR at 6 AM today just in time for a torrential downpour that lasted about 45 mins. Glad I brought the rainsuit.

Sitting on the sofa now waiting for a break in the rain to go wet a line at Roberts Street.

no problem weather changed my plans and there's a severe weather/flood warning up now until 6pm.

[Moz]

This weather is pffft! :mad:

Just lost power for almost an hour. Don't think I'm going to make it over there now...

[Moz]

Made it to Roberts Street for about an hour. I had more mosquito bites on me than bites on my lure but managed to land a jump-happy dink smallie.

RVR this morning was OK, I managed 2 bass in almost 5 hours playing in the rain including an hour-plus yawn fest on the big lake (not sure why I wandered over, must have been "because it's there"). The one below over 2 LBS and one a little bit smaller that I didn't get a pic of because I needed to get it back in quickly. Kind of weird, I read the posts on here last night about gut-hooking bass and the mortality rate when releasing them and thought to myself that I had never gut-hooked one. Well, that changed today when the bass inhaled a super-fluke with a 4/0 EWG hook on it.

In any case, fishing in the rain beats working.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o4/horatiorimshot/Sep42012-Copy.jpg