Introduction/Ramapo River Fishing

[CabesaRoja]

Hey everyone! My name's Justin. I've been keeping an eye on this site in order to learn new tactics and hear about everyone's reports for a while now, and I finally decided to join so I can start sharing my adventures with you all as well! I'm a senior in high school, and therefore one of the alleged few young anglers to be found around nowadays :D. I love fishing so much that I'm going to be attending college to major in Fisheries Science. Anyways, enough about me.

I went out yesterday on the Ramapo for some trout. Pulled up to the 287 hole to find it pretty packed with only a few guys having a single trout on their stringer. Most of them were drifting bait in hopes of hooking into the freshly stocked and pressured fish. Instead of trying to squeeze in between people, I decided to head downstream to find some less pressured holes. This was probably the best decision I could have made. Fished for 3.5 hours with a Size 5 Countdown in Rainbow trout pattern and managed to land around 7 trout and maybe 4 dink smallmouths. Overall a great day on the water for me, but not so much for those who didn't want to leave their spot.

Got some Go-Pro footage of the day (Until the camera died halfway through the day, should've charged the battery :( ).

Here's the link to the video. Enjoy!
http://youtu.be/vAC8J1eJ-as

[AndyS]

A big WELCOME from all of us here. Glad to see youth getting involved in the sport, and getting reports from the Slam-A-Po !!!

[Chrisper4694]

Nicely done, welcome.

[MudCat08]

Welcome.

You must be from my neck of the woods because I mostly fish in Bergen county. Nice to see someone else from here!
I feel a lot of the posters are further south in central and south jersey because a lot of reports are usually from the Raritan, and not a whole lot from the smaller rivers up here like the Ramapo.


Also cool to see that they definitely stocked the Ramapo again this spring. I was there too early this year around April and got repeated skunks seeing nothing but suckers. finally got my first 2015 fish there though - perch.
I'll have to return soon to catch some trout - been concentrating on Saddle River too much lately.

How big were those first couple of fish in your video?

[Predator]

Nice job and welcome . Maybe I'll see you out and about some day. Even though I bought a boat a few years ago I still seem to walk the bank beat most days. Just something about stream and river fishing that I can't let go.

[Lard Almighty]

Welcome aboard. Awesome catching, and great video!

[CabesaRoja]

Thanks everyone!

Mudcat, you definitely need to head back to the Ramapo! It's given me a ton of luck, unlike the Saddle River. I've never actually managed to get a trout out of that river. Maybe I should give it another shot one day this week. The first two fish in my video were probably around the 14-15" mark. Not giants like I was saying, but definitely bigger than the average cookie cutter!

And thanks Lard! Your videos were actually my main inspiration for deciding to lug my Go-Pro around on my head.

[MudCat08]

Saddle river comes alive with trout when you use powerbait. It's also extremely pressured. I've caught them there on a lot of different stuff including spinners, flies, and worms. powerbait cannot be beat though, on that river (if you aren't using a fly rod).

I'll probably check the Ramapo tomorrow morning. going to stop at a few different bridges and spots to try my luck.

14-15" are always cool!
Keep doing these reports, always fun to see what others have been catching in familiar territory.

[CabesaRoja]

Awesome! I'll be hitting up the Ramapo tomorrow at some point tomorrow as well. Maybe I'll end up running into you! Keep an eye out for a guy with a Go-pro on! :D

[FASTEDDIE29]

Welcome to the site dude! Lots of info and great anglers here on this site. Look forward to reading your reports and seeing some pics. Keep catching!

TIGHT LINEZ!!!

[shrimpman steve]

There are no fish in the Ramapo no need to come up here;)

[Andrushkin33]

Great report, great catch and great video.

Welcome aboard.

Andre