70 fish in 78 minutes
 

Yesterday evening I caught and released 70 fish, 47 black crappies, 22 bluegills and a largemouth bass, in 78 minutes in a small Central Jersey Pond where I didn't see another fisherman this year. They all hit a 1/32 oz black leadhead jig and 1" black twister tail on 2 lb test line. A big fish chased a bluegill on the end of my line but didn't catch it. All of the fish were less than 9". That's 3,276 fish in 218 NJ fresh water fishing trips this year for a > 15 fish per trip average while fishing from shore in public fishing areas. 4 fish won NJ Skillful Angler Awards.

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all that fish and info, but no pics? :p

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:D I'd expect just one.

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How many casts :confused:

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What species did you get Skillful Anglers for?

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Doesn't chasing high volumes of small species' get tiring? Last thing I need when I go out fishing is to feel like I have to reel in a panfish every 1.1 minutes.

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To each his own. Everyone has their different style and preference. To me fishing for trout and bass is boring and pointless. If I don't have the chance to catch a 20 or 30 pound fish, I don't even go fishing anymore. On the same token, guys who consistently catch 30 and 40 pound stripers in the salt may consider what I do boring and pointless. Nice job on the great day fishing NJ219. Way to catch 'em up.

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carp, channel catfish, bullhead and sunfish. Yesterday I returned to the same spot with a different colored lure, then caught and released 32 black crappies to 11", 31 bluegills to 8" and 2 warmouth to 9". That's 108 warmouth that I caught there this year. I took a pic of one yesterday and will add a link. http://s865.photobucket.com/user/NJ2...tml?sort=3&o=0 Last week after catching only 1 bass in Carnegie Lake, 5 small fish and a turtle in the Millstone River, 3 small fish in Miry Run Lake, 7 small fish in an unnamed pond in Central Jersey and 9 small fish in Robert G. Martin Lake all week long, I found constant action fishing much more fun. Ultralight jigging is great.

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man...you are limited in what you can fish for and where in NJ. I assume you only fish for muskies in half a dozen waterways....Golf is on your horizon soon unless you switch to the salt chuck.

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I mostly fish for muskies, but I fish for carp too. There are well more than a half-dozen waterways that I fish. Don't see why I would switch to golf, musky fishing is far more interesting than any other fishing I have ever done, and I grew up saltwater fishing and bass fishing. I don't see how the guys catching 12-inch trout keep doing that. At least I catch a fish that is 4 feet long every once in awhile.

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Never caught one....my friends that fish them say getting the bite is the fun of it as they do not fight well at all..I had a real nice one following my bulldawg @ cave run lake in Kentucky.could not get him to commit through a one minute figure 8...I will get one eventually..... not on top of bucket list, but top ten I suppose.

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well, steelhead are really cool fish. I caught a 15 lb wild steelhead out in Forks washington that fought as hard as any fish I have tangled with besides tuna, and jack species. Like you said earlier it all depends on what you fish for...same logic could apply to a muskie for me...the last fish I caught was back in September and weighed 800 lbs. why in earth would I care about a four foot long muskie?

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Catching a musky is like nothing else and it's totally addicting. Some of them fight better than others..and not necessarily the big ones either. They fight better in cooler water. My buddy had one yesterday that stayed under the boat for almost a minute and wouldn't come up. I've been fishing for them for 2 years and I got my 19th yesterday. I've had 9 fish over 40 inches, 3 of which were over 46 and one that was probably pushing 50. Fishing for everything else kind of feels pointless now. I'll still jig for walleyes once or twice a year, do some saltwater fishing on vacation and fish for hybrids when the water is too warm in the summer.

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Exactly what I said, it's matter of perspective, which is why I didn't understand why people were ragging on this guy for catching 70 "small" fish.

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agree

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Fish r fish. I'd rather catch 50 sunnies in a few hrs then spend all day getting a few bass. 218 trips is the # that impresses me. Best i ever did while fully employed was around 150.