NJ Squatch and I got the tin can on hopatcong and had the whole place to ourselves due to the draw down, but we just couldn't find and size. We started off targeting hybrids and had a few quick ones and thought we were going to be in for a banner day...nope, that was it for them. two bullheads after that (one of them big for the species)
we started moving around a bit trying different areas. I caught a glimpse of a bigfoot like creature popping a squat under an exposed dock (should've taken a picture as proof, but i guess it'll remain a mystery
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after a while of nothing happening we switched over to blade baits and started catching again, but still not much size. Duane got a real nice crappie to the boat and lost it as he was wallowing in defeat of just losing one of the biggest crappie he could've caught i look down and see the damn thing doing the 'crappie opossum' just floating there so i just grab it hahaha.
A bit after this i hook a feisty little smallmouth and it swims the line right into my spinning prop...so again i just reach in and grab this fish too (still not really sure how it didn't come off)
just two googans in a tin can, don't worry about it.
we moved on to target some yellow perch and slammed them, with a few 11-12" but mostly dinkers...the fickle whore that is lake hopatcong would not give up the beasts this day, but at least we had some multispecies small fish action.
i hope these small fish pictures don't offend anyone:
