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Originally Posted by cmoran719
how weedy was the river there? last time I was at the 2 bridges area the weeds were insane
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It was bad. At one point I had to use my paddle as a push-pole because my kayak got stuck in the weeds.
I fished Two Bridges on Monday afternoon. I tell you, the NJfishing.com should get paid a commision for all the new traffic it's generating at that location.
I showed up around 2:30, and there was already one guy with waders fishing at the canoe-launch. He said he never fished this place before, but he's seen some huge smallmouths come out of this location on various internet social media sites.
I apologized for launching my kayak where he was fishing and suggested he go down the trail that paralells the river. At this point it starts to rain and TWO more people, both unfamilar with the river show up and start fishing at the canoe-launch.
I finally get the kayak in the water. The two new people both get their lures stuck in the rocks and ask me to paddle over and free their lures. At this point the guy I sent down the trail starts screaming. (I found out later that he caught an enormous pike and he was afraid to unhook it and was calling us over to help him).
Suddenly lightning strikes the ground somewhere downstream [Crack! BOOOOOM]!
Now I'm getting the hell off the water. I beached my kayak and waited in my car. The three new guys waited under the bridge. Apparently the fishing was very good, but I wasn't fishing in a lightning storm.
Eventually the rain stopped, the three new guys wandered downstream, and I re-launched my kayak. I don't know what changed after the thunderstorm blew through, but I couldn't catch shit. The whole evening, all I caught was a 12" Yelow Perch. That's one of the biggest perches I've caught, so I guess the day wasn't a total loss.
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