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skunksville for sure!!!!!that place just wears me thin.

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Manasquan River. I hear of people regularly catching big trout there, but I've never caught anything bigger than 10 inches after numerous trips. I've just about given up on that muddy ditch!

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Monks the skunks for sure. Ill never fish there again (unless there is a M&G there with booze and good company. It will be really just to hang out and BS.

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And the strange thing is Fish & Game stocks A LOT of pike in that reservoir, but relatively few of them grow to a size where they can be caught on a hook.

This is the pike stocking for Spruce Run in 2013:
Spruce Run Reservoir 67,050
Spruce Run Reservoir 4,884
Spruce Run Reservoir 1,839

Now this is the stocking for the Passaic River in 2013:
Passaic River 37,650

That's a big difference - yet the Passaic River is a thriving Pike fishery and Spruce Run barely has any pike at all. What is up with that?
http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf...cking_np13.pdf

As for getting skunked, I usually get skunked at Round Valley Reservoir.
Over the course of my lifetime, I've had two amazing days fishing from the shore where the trout were like hungry puppies eagerly pouncing on every piece of powerbait I cast to them. I've had a few other days where I landed a trout or two. But the vast majority of the time I fish there I just get skunked.



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like farrington, until I see a pike come out of there with my own eyes ill never believe they are in there :confused:

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Ahhh the place that gets you nothing my draws you time after time.

Well to me that would be .... don't hate me now .... but it is Hopatcong.

Yes I said it. That darn lake. Rarely I been productive there and still go time after time. Don't know why but it always been no good to me.

What I noticed though everytime I go somewhere to target a specific fish that's when I get the least results. Everytime go just to fish results were absolutely the best. The less I care about what I will catch the more productive that body of water turns out to be.

Side note. It did take me 3 months to catch my first bass in Farrington since my teens this summer. Never caught another one after that but man for 3 months I was after that elusive bass. Now if I can only pull out a pike or trout from there my list for all the species for that lake will be crossed of. You hear that fish .... I am coming for you.

Andre

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Hopatcong... I can see it from my house but like getanet... I have a love hate! Mostly not even because of the fishing but because I have just an electric motor Jon boat and there are only 3 free launches I know of plus you just can't fish there daytime in summer!

Besides that I'll fish there a few times and catch next to nothing thinking, wow I used to do better from the dock with no boat! But then you run into absolute monsters! Huge fish in there! Yet so much different habitat you really need to know what you're doing to get any kind of consistency there. I don't know the lake well enough and I won't learn it from my little Jon boat so maybe when I get a real boat haha.

Here's some old school monsters from the cong though that I've ran into luckily enough

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Won't let me post more than 1 pic... Idk

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Dayyyyum! How big were those eyes dude?

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