And the strange thing is Fish & Game stocks A LOT of pike in that reservoir, but relatively few of them grow to a size where they can be caught on a hook.
This is the pike stocking for Spruce Run in 2013:
Spruce Run Reservoir 67,050
Spruce Run Reservoir 4,884
Spruce Run Reservoir 1,839
Now this is the stocking for the Passaic River in 2013:
Passaic River 37,650
That's a big difference - yet the Passaic River is a thriving Pike fishery and Spruce Run barely has any pike at all. What is up with that?
http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/pdf...cking_np13.pdf
As for getting skunked, I usually get skunked at Round Valley Reservoir.
Over the course of my lifetime, I've had two amazing days fishing from the shore where the trout were like hungry puppies eagerly pouncing on every piece of powerbait I cast to them. I've had a few other days where I landed a trout or two. But the vast majority of the time I fish there I just get skunked.
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