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Been hittin the river lately, mostly targeting bass and panfish with my popper. Been getting a few on it but still no giants. Put some work into our newly renovated spot and it just keeps getting better & cleaner. Was able to haul out 5 truck tires and a dollie, amongst other miscellaneous things ppl throw in the river. Turned in a pack of 45 bullets to the authorities as well. Got my eyes on some heavy stuff but will need to build a wench/pully system to get it out alone, we'll see. As for the fish, they showed up too. Been getting a little bit of everything down here regardless of size. I've actually been having a blast with the smaller ones on the top! But the big ones come and go as well. The longest of these guys taped out at 39" and the meaty one at 37".
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Esox....great pics! Beautiful pike. Even better the effort you put in keeping the environment clean. The more people who care increases our odds against the people who unfortunately don't.

Keep it up my friend.....great stuff.

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They should name a park after you :D great effort and great fish

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Beautiful fish and even better job on tires.

Thank you.

Andre

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Nice job. Hang on to that ammo- 45 is really hard to find right now.

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Truck tires are THE worst, thank you.

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Great fish and a big thanks for your hard work cleaning up the river. If more people acted like you, NJ would be a better place.

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Awesome Pike. Wish everyone would carry out a little more trash every time they fish.

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Great job getting that garbage out of there! Those are picture perfect and super healthy Pike right there! Awesome catch!!!:D

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Nice long pike right there bro!

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Beautiful fish you caught there. And thank you for cleaning up. One of the spots my son and I visited the other day- someone demolished an entire kitchen and dumped everything along the bank. Not to mention tires, miscellaneous junk. People have no shame. Kudos to you for stepping up and doing something about it.

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Thanks fellaz, the fish and the trash were making me sweat!! Andy, those truck tires are a biatch!! You've removed some bigger ones than that too so I could imagine how hard those were!

Curious, was that on the Saddle River or up in Fairfield at the confluence? I've been in contact with the board of health & they will/have actually take prompt action.

It'll slow up a bit in the late dog days but when they don't bite, the stripers show up to keep you busy. I was pike fishing in the hood the other day and taught a couple kids from the projects how to properly handle esox, especially during these summer months and they were pretty eager & enthused to learn. Gave one a lucky lure in the past but he said he lost it. Still pretty cool though!

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Pass it on to ANYBODY that wants to learn:D big props on that....even more so than the structure removal,which is gr8

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Nice work cleaning up on fish and garbage !!!!

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that's a haul!

where the 45s on the bank or in the river? bet there is a gun in the vicinity of the bullets