First Bass 2017 and then Skunked on the SB

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I did a lot of fishing this weekend as I am sure many of you guys did as well taking advantage of the summer-like temps. Friday night managed to catch my first bass of the year and a decent one at that at Nomahegan Park in Cranford. Unfortunately no pics as I was taking dog for a walk and forgot to bring my phone. It was also almost 10 pm in late Feb. so I wasn't really expecting to catch anything although as soon as I realized I had fogotten my phone I figured that would be the night I catch a bass and sure enough it was. Fish was caught on a black jig with a zoom speed craw trailer dragged super slow along the bottom.

Sat. I spent the entire day on the South Branch starting just upstream of the confluence and working my way through Neshanic and then on towards Flemington. I was targeting trout and smallies and my second cast in Neshanic area I was casting a tiny CD Rapala when I hooked into something big. As the fish tore out drag and jumped I realized it was neither a smallmouth or a trout but a good sized LMB (possibly a PB). I got him within about 5 feet and was wading up to my knees and that is when it happened, my 4 lb test snapped and the big one got away. To say i was disappointed would be an understatement. To make matters worse I didn't get another bite all day.

Sunday I hit up a local Union County spot where i had good luck pre-spawn last year in early March. The wind was howling and it was getting cold around sunset but i managed to snag a small dink on a craw colored squarebill crank. Of course this time I remember to bring my phone.

All in all a great weekend, hope everyone else go to enjoy the nice weather.