Interesting Read on NJ records

[Irish Jigger]

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/07/the_biggest_freshwater_fish_ever_caught_in_new_jer .html#incart_river_mobile_home_pop

[buzzbaiter]

Many of the records don't look all that big. Could be the photos or maybe the fish being frozen and then photographed. That smallmouth doesn't even look like its 5lbs.

http://roundvalleyfishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/smMouthStateRecord.jpg

I did a little math and based upon the avg width of a human face(6 to 7"), I was able to calculate the record bass between 24 and 26" which would certainly put it at 6 lbs at least.

[Mark B.]

I remember that smallie.

I believe it was caught in the rip-rap to right of the main boat launch. Her first time fishing with her boyfriend in a canoe. It barely fit in the small trout landing net!

Veteran RVR anglers’ jaws were agape, when they landed with the monster @ the boat ramp.

That photo is a day, or two, after the catch,….after it had been paraded around.

[Chrisper4694]

about that gold trout...who the hell cares it was raised in a hatchery...it's dumb as crap humans feed it everyday haha. shouldn't count as anything. I mean, i fish opening day too with my father in law as a tradition type of thing and the fight on the big trout especially is great, but def don't feel any sense of accomplishment in hooking one. same thing with the monster stocked trout caught in lake hopatcong. It's awesome, i'm sure it was a blast and no small feet to land with light tackle....but to put that up with wild caught records that have been swimming around since they were stocked as fingerling? makes no sense to me.

[AndyS]

That SMB was full of eggs, caught in May i believe, before the bass regs. came out.

[Bruce Litton]

I've never caught a bass along that rip-rap, but always have believed it harbors some big smb.

[buzzbaiter]

Most record fish seem to be of the full of eggs variety. If you ever see photos of yellow perch record fish, they are all grotesquely fat:

http://media.pennlive.com/pa-sportsman/photo/perch-2jpg-bada7856817b98ce.jpg


I think most of our trout records are bogus. Should really separate native/wild from stocked/hatchery fish. There really is no comparing the two - especially brook trout which rarely exceed 12" or go over 1lb under normal conditions(i.e not being fed pellets or kept in some spring pond)

[bigfishy]

Most record fish seem to be of the full of eggs variety. If you ever see photos of yellow perch record fish, they are all grotesquely fat:

http://media.pennlive.com/pa-sportsman/photo/perch-2jpg-bada7856817b98ce.jpg


I think most of our trout records are bogus. Should really separate native/wild from stocked/hatchery fish. There really is no comparing the two - especially brook trout which rarely exceed 12" or go over 1lb under normal conditions(i.e not being fed pellets or kept in some spring pond)

gr8 point and I think they should do that with the trout but......then you'll have the guys saying and they are right that you can't tell the diff of a full blown native large brown vs one stocked at 9" and grown up to a big size....unless they begin and don't ever stop clipping adapost fins