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Originally Posted by Dino
a few years ago I was fishing the elbow pool on the SBRR for trout, I was swinging a large saltwater fly (Popovics Deep Candy) about 20 yards downstream hoping for a big fish. it was march23 2008 to be exact, and that pool was absolutely loaded with what I guess were stockie brook trout.. hundreds upon hundreds of them.
I was swinging the fly downstream, watching 8inch brookies swirl on the fly over and over but too seemingly to small to eat it, I suddenly had a savage take, just under the surface. the kind of strike that literally scares you for a second. after about a minute fight on a huge fish, (all I saw was dark sillhouette about 30 inches long) he broke me just above the fly. clean cut 10lb test tippet (high dirty water). is it possible this was a musky or pike? (and not the giant trout I have been telling friends I lost lol)
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There are lots of pike in the South Branch although they're not wanted there and you won't hear many people talking about them. They mostly likely came down from Budd Lake and are most abundant near Clinton and Califon. I hear awhile back they could be caught with some regularity in the big slow pool at Califon, but they're definitely not wanted in there with the trout and people were encouraged to kill them. I was told at Shannon's that they were becoming less abundant, most likely from people killing them. That being said, I would venture to guess that it is not unlikely to find a pike anywhere in the South Branch.
