Raritan River: bass and trout
 

8 days ago the river temps were 70F, yesterday it bottomed at 55F!
And today it started to warm up just a bit.

After a cleanup with AndyS, I hit the river in the same stretch.

I was using a 1/4 oz jig with a Zman TRD in PB+J color, ned rigged.
(Thanks for the zmans, Andy)

Nailed three nice smallmouth in some fast + deep water in a nice run,
then last fish was a surprise rainbow trout.

I then fished some slower sections downstream with a mix of some runs, nothing there.
Tough for me to find these smallmouth in this big river :p They got so many places to hide

Whole river to myself on a Saturday.


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Nice pic of the river i snapped some trips ago.

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We knocked it out of the park at Nevius street in Raritan/Hillsborough, thanx for the help and nice fish ! Who needs fall stocking on the big river, we will just catch the left overs from the spring stocking.

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Awesome fish, dude!

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Very nice. Karma paying dividends.

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Surprised you found so much trash. The place looked pretty clean last time I was there.

Clean up those Bitsy Minnows and keep them in your tackle box, they are dynamite!

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Gonna need new hooks it seems. Unless somehow the rust isnt as bad as it looks and I can just sharpen them. Expect a follow up report of them catching fish perhaps, lol.

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Post Raritan Borough Duck Race on the Raritan river. managed to fill 3 bags !!

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Cant believe how many ducks they didnt end up collecting and left in the river. :mad:

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Then I went to Manville, then over to Peters Brook Greenway in Somerville !

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Good stuff buddy! Good karma for sure! That rainbow looks pretty good! No front fins though, hmmmmmmm!?!?!?:D