Passaic 7/9
 

Finally got a chance to make it out to the river last night with Gatto between all the rain we've been getting and it didn't let me down. The river was high and brown when we got there, so we motored straight downstream to a couple spots that have produced when the river is high. Threw the usual lures around for a while before I saw this guy come out of nowhere and devour my bucktail. The fish fought hard and was a chore getting into the boat because we forgot the net. I actually knocked my other pole into the water and lost it during the commotion of landing the fish:rolleyes:. Oh well, I'll trade a pole for a big fish any day. Fish measured a solid 36", thick with a big head. Had one other pike that was even bigger blow up on a bucktail burned close to the surface, but she missed and we didnt see her again after that.

Re: Passaic 7/9
 

EXCELLENT!!!.....sorry to hear about your setup going over

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Nice pike. Thanks for the report.

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Awesome fishing cj, I hope the river goes down soon so I can hit from the shore!!!!

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It actually went like this....
Me: Yo Doc! Your other pole is about to fall in!!

You: I don't care (as you're wrestling the pike lol)

Not many other guys let their favorite set up sink to the bottom of a muddy river to land a fish. Nice fish man!

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Nice beast and way to man up and land the fish you can always buy a new combo but you can't buy a monster fish BRAVO!!!!!!

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Nice fish! Sucks about the gear but landing the fish, def top priority.............

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Nice Pike!!!!! Let the rod fly in, land the fish. That's awesome!!!

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Nice work gentlemen.

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I would love to see just ONE photo of a pike from the Millstone river !

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/newsrel/2013/13_0013.htm

Re: Passaic 7/9
 

Someone here had a post awhile ago with a Millstone Pike; I came across it during a search.

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I remember that but I think that guy had his rivers confused cause he caught like 7 or 8 in one day and all had some size to them. I've fished pretty much every part of the millstone looking for pike and have never come up with anything. Tons and tons and pickerel but no pike

Re: Passaic 7/9
 

Thanks everybody for the comments! I've personally only witnessed one Pike, about 20in in length come out of the Millstone. Gatto and I probably put in 100 hours easily on that river last year without ONE. We got countless pickerel and some Bass, but no pike. My guess is that the river loses a lot of fish to the now annual heavy flooding that occurs. I heard a story after Hurricane Irene a few years ago that somebody found a big pike dead in a car after the rivers receded. There are pike in the river somewhere, but its nowhere near the fishery the Passaic is. If it were I wouldn't be driving 45 min to go to the Passaic all the time lol.