Somerset County TROUT Contest WRAP UP 4/11

[FASTEDDIE29]

NJFers whooped some ARSE at this one boyz and girlz!!!

1st place, Liveitup1.75 with a MONSTER BOW weighing in at 6lbs 9ozs! Beautiful fish! Great job on this one Dave, well played and well planned! You are the man!!!

2nd place, Lard Almighty with a MONSTER BROWN out of the one and only RARITAN RIVER! Hell of a fish Craig! I'm still drooling looking tab the pics! Is it a holdover or a Sea Run? HMMMMMMMMM!!!! Craig's Brown weighed in at 4lbs 4ozs.

3rd place weighing in an absolute guppy compared to the first 2 fish, FASTEDDIE29!!! I wanted to hide my face when we took the group photo, LOL!!!

GREAT JOB NJF!!!
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Managed to bring 32 rainbows to the banks of the NB today fishing from 615 am til 3 pm this afternoon. No real big fish for me but one of those Bows was enough to get me 3rd place. What I got for 3rd was INSANE! A trophy, a 9 quart cooler full of assorted plastic baits, rod and reel combo and a 3/4 day trip on the Queen Mary. WOW, the Raritan PD went above and beyond putting this event together. Thanx for all your hard work and effort guys. I had a blast and I know everyone else did as well. Round of applause for the Raritan PD!!!! I hope this turns into something huge for Somerset County. GREAT JOB!!!
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Taking the kids division was an NJF members daughter named Jessica. She was the only kid to enter a fish so she took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes, LOL! The look on her face was just AWESOME! Congrats Jessica and family! Looks like you have alot of fishing to do in the near future. Lots of new gear to break in!!!! What a day to be outside.

TIGHT LINEZ TO ALL!!!!!

[AndyS]

A big thanx to the men and women putting that together. Trying to get people out fishing in Somerset County and helping to get the kids involved also ! Nice fish !!

[Chrisper4694]

Way to slay em guys.

[GetANet]

Nice work there fella's way to represent!!!!:D

[Esox Luciano]

Great job fellaz! NJF bossfishing that tourney, way to hold it down!!

[liveitup1.75liter]

Funny story.. had my drag super loose fishin bottom.. when the fish hit my spool flew off like a flying saucer... fumbled around a min then hand lined her in!!! It was wild n I was pumped!!!! Catch of the contest in my opinion hands dwn was lard almighty s Big Brown!!! Awsome fish dude it took skills to fool her!!! Id like to again thank everyone involved.. Raritan pd was a great group of guys n look forward to seeing everyone next year... NJF 123!!!!

[dfish28]

Way to log guys and gal! Way to represent... Unfortunately I read this and said wtf!, damn it's Sunday already! Congrats to all!

[Lard Almighty]

Thanks to the Raritan PD for putting this thing together. Based on how this tournament was run, there is no doubt in my mind that it will continue to grow from year to year. And judging from the ear-to-ear grin on Jessica's face, it definitely needs to happen again!

I've got the video of my day posted, feel free to take a look. I got really emotional once I landed that fish, to the point where you guys may be able to use this video to blackmail me. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QIC7VKEiVY&feature=youtu.be

Attached is a pic of the fish as soon as it came out of the water. I'd love to get everyone's opinion as to whether they feel it was simply a holdover, or if it actually was a sea-run brown trout.

[Jigman13]

Great video dude! Looks sea run-ish to me... Silvery gem!

[AndyS]

Great looking fish Lard. I'm just glad to see fish like that coming out of the main stem of the Raritan river. I think the Brown Trout are most tolerant of higher water temps. Crazy river, you never know what you will catch out of there.

[jimcnj]

Lard- Your videos are great fun. Congrats on that fish.

[GetANet]

I know that feeling of JOY!!!
I have been lucky enough to experience it a couple times in my life!!!
BEAUTIFUL BROWN!!!!
So Happy for you and Dave !!!!
AND you go all the way up to the West Branch lookin for her and she's right in your backyard!!!!
CONGRATS AGAIN!!!