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Sound awesome! I had them pushing bait 2 weeks ago but they weren't busting on top. Man..........you really got me pumped to go to LH. From what I hear yours are consistently bigger than ours over here. A guy i know told me if i started fishing LH that I wouldn't go back to SR.
My largest at SR is 9lb 8 oz. 29 inches. IMO, at SR the best fighting ones are in the 22-24" range.

I may have to try an umbrella rig........I see a lot of guys in the south using them for pures and hybrids.
I've been begging my wife to get a gopro, but at this point its a nogo! Would be cool to make some vids of hybrids in action.

BTW did you fish the hybrid tourney?

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I heard that sometimes those GoPro's just jump into your shoppping cart and you never even realize it until the credit card bill comes in....and by then it's probably too late to return it becasue somehow it came out of the box and all of the packing material and the receipt disappeared. I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me with fishing gear of all kinds......and sometimes even alcoholic beverages! Just sayin.

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I have a GoPro HD 2. Had it for like 2 yrs and still havent used it. I need to get some footage soon.

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Yeah that happened with my downriggers and my lowrance hds. Crazy how that happens
:cool: . But sometimes it happens to the wife too and.. I have to install a new kitchen floor lol.

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Those cams are pretty sick......the quality of the picture is ridiculous, and you can mount them anywhere.

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Maybe I'll use it this weekend. Had it with me on my tuna trip earlier in the week and it never made it's way out of my bag :confused:

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LH is a tuff nut to crack when u first start fishing it, I hated the place years ago couldnt catch squat on the regular. The majority of the hybrids are 3-6 pds. and they kinda school based on year class. When u find em bigger like 5+ thats when u eventuall get some big boys, altho w all the wipers Ive got I never got one over 9lbs. I lost a monster sunday morn boatside that was 10+ all day long, in the action of chasing the birds/bait i never retied my leader and snapped off a big flutter spoon on 15 floro netting it. Would have been my PB for sure looked like a legal saltwater striper I think it had more purestrain DNA than usual, didnt have the football shape was on the long side. And the other big problem w LH is the herring, LH supplies MOST of this state w bait in the shops, the fish are very keen on what they will eay, artificials dont do as well as herring, the place is LOADED w bait, I get baitballs on my sonar the size of pickup trucks everytime Im out w fish following them, and thats prob the reason ours are bigger too. Trolling is tuff cause of the weeds, the powerboats rip vegetation going in and out of slips and u get BIG balls that just float in clumps, so I pretty much search using sonar/GPS find some life and setup and drop bait w line counters. I dont anchor I have a Ipilot terrova I jsut spot lock and it hovers me within 10 feet of the spot I lock. This also allows for some movement of the boat/bait when the TM fights current/wind to get me back to the locked spot. I usually jig a binsky if I mark em down deep or toss a stickbait/plastic if up a little high in the water column. I have some umbrellas I sue for smallies that Im gonna try, I wish I had them sunday I woulda loved to nail 2 or 3 at once on it. And yeah the 4-6 pd class fish fight the hardest, the big ones make hard first runs down deep then just play u when they come up, the mediums make many runs they dont give it up til they are in the net

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I dint fish the tourney my girl sold her house and I had to move her into a new condo over last weekend :( This years fish were smaller than years before, bunkerdunkers kid won it w 7 and change, last year BD and son got 1st + 2nd both close to 10pds. Plus LH isnt like SR, u rly cant sit out there all day between memorial and labor day, the pleasure boat traffic is unreal, until u experience it first hand u wont understand. The best action is on the main lake spots, esp the points, fishing the back bays isnt as good unless u rly find them chillin in a spot. I usually get to my boat dock around 530 so Im at dows for herring and fishing before 6, old man jim or laurie is there early on weekends. even at 7am there are waterskiers and jetskis cruising and they have no respect for guys fishing, u get waked constantly and im in a 19' walleye boat. By 9ish or so ur getting pounded and Im off the water, in SR u dont deal w any of that. The boat traffic turns them off and it gets tuff to catch them, even tho u will still mark them just like early in the am. After september it becomes a fishermans paradise, theres no better place to be IMO than LH

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AMEN TO THAT!!!!! FALL ON HOPATCONG=PRICELESS!!!!!
Fished SR last night and got the ever living Sxxt kicked out of me!!!! Was heading north wasn't sure whether RV or SR but James from Behr's Bait and Tackle hooked me up with some herring (waited a few for me after hrs!)
So the decision was made, got to the lake about 8:00pm and was already kinda windy but launched anyway. Marked quite a few fish and set up, wind was starting to really crank so moved into a cove to get out of the wind some what still marking fish but I guess my herring bouncing up and down two feet didn't look too appetizing so bagged it at 11:00pm As I came around the point into the main lake whitecaps like Raritan bay. Glad to get out with no issues! Was wondering, I acclimated my herring but still had issues with them dying, fished two with a splitshot between 6-10ft down and one free lined Not sure what was up with that???? Also marked a lot of fish deeper than that, both big and small which I don't understand cause I thought they were all around the thermocline????at

That's my report for the night, unfortunetly gotta skunk ONCE in a while!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!

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GET A NET.....when I was there Sunday thermocline was around 20 ft. Maybe a little deeper. I caught my fish from 8 to 15'. So maybe you weren't deep enough, but I think they probably weren't hungry. Nice to hear James hung around for you. He seems like a good guy.