Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

Fished the big lake last night from 6pm to 2am, started off good. Got a couple smallies to 17.5 inches and a couple LM to 19 inches. 10 pm got hammered on consecutive casts 1st fish a nice 21 inch walleye real fat full of herring. Ok it looks like its gone be a GREAT NIGHT. 2nd cast BOOM, 20 inch wiper, sweet. After that it was all downhill, hooked a monster wiper around 11 that had to be around 10 lbs, got em close to the boat, and in true wiper fashion he dove straight down into some weeds when he saw the boat and that was it. I tried to get em out but he really pinned himself in this cabbage. By the time i got the lure free the monster wiper was gone. Oh well thats how it goes. After losing that fish I couldn't hook up with anything for the next 3 hours. It was still an AWESOME day/ night on the water. Didn't see or hear any of the other anglers doing much, beautiful night on the water. Lots of dudes doing the live bait thing. TIGHT LINES!!!

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

Sounds like a great night...good job!

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

Umm Whats a wiper? Do you mean the Hybrid Striped bass?

Reason I ask is i fish that lake all the time and never have I heard of a wiper...

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

Was also out last night from 9:30 pm to 7:30 this morning: 4 walleyes up to 3.5 lbs. one wiper 3.5 lbs. and a largie....many blow-ups and misses: LiveTartget topwater propbait....deadly! + F18 floating rapala (the giant one) Capt. Dave:)

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

As i said it was a slow night i caught 2 short eyes last saturday while the sun was up! 6 keepers when the sun went down, last nite was slowwwwwww!!!

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whats a wiper? ummmmm a hybrid yep!!!

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

WHIte bass + hybrid strIPER

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Heres a pic of that WALLEYE from saturday night. 21 inches.

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Nice fish dude! I really gotta get out and do some late night wiper/walleye fishing soon!!

Re: Lake Hopatcong 5/19
 

Awesome fishing at night, get out there buddy. Its definitely worth it.