Spruce Run hybrids 7/21/13

[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by gnuisance

I guess someone fishing in a yak without electronics would have a hard time targeting SR Hybrids? Sounds like you have it dialed in

If you have a smart phone, download the Navionics freshwater app. GPS based with depth charts of lakes and rivers (including Spruce Run). I believe its about $10, and it has saved the day a few times when the fish finder battery crapped out. Lets you mark waypoints to come back to. Basically the same as the Navionics card for the fish finders but WAYYYY cheaper ($180 vs. $10). It has helped me IMMENSELY on the bigger, deeper lakes, especially jigging and trolling dropoffs, ridges, and contour lines.

[Eskimo]

Originally Posted by Skunk City

If you have a smart phone, download the Navionics freshwater app. GPS based with depth charts of lakes and rivers (including Spruce Run). I believe its about $10, and it has saved the day a few times when the fish finder battery crapped out. Lets you mark waypoints to come back to. Basically the same as the Navionics card for the fish finders but WAYYYY cheaper ($180 vs. $10). It has helped me IMMENSELY on the bigger, deeper lakes, especially jigging and trolling dropoffs, ridges, and contour lines.

Thanks for the information. I just looked it. Here is the link:
http://www.navionics.com/en/mobile-pc-app

That app covers the following NJ lakes:

New Jersey
Amwell Hunterdon NJ
Assunpink Monmouth NJ
Budd Morris NJ
Canistear Reservoir Sussex NJ
Clinton Reservoir Passaic NJ
Colliers Ocean NJ
Cranberry Sussex NJ
Delaware Warren NJ
Echo Passaic NJ
Furnace Warren NJ
Green Turtle Passaic NJ
Greenwood Passaic (NJ), Orange (NY) NJ
Hopatcong Morris NJ
Little Swartswood Sussex NJ
Mercer Mercer NJ
Merrill Creek Reservoir Warren NJ
Monksville Reservoir Passaic NJ
Musconetcong Morris, Sussex NJ
New Wawayanda Sussex NJ
Parvin Salem NJ
Prospertown Ocean NJ
Round Valley Reservoir Hunterdon NJ
Ryker Sussex NJ
Sheppard Pond Passaic NJ
Spruce Run Reservoir Hunterdon NJ
Swartswood Sussex NJ
Turn Mill Pond Ocean NJ
Union Cumberland NJ
Upper Greenwood Passaic NJ
White Warren NJ
Wilson Gloucester NJ

[jimmythegreek]

Nice job bicey, way to get em. Im tempted to make a trip down there just to see how ur wipers compare to ours at LH. I was out on LH sun morn and killed them there too. From sunrise til 7ish the wipers were pushing bait up to the surface and the birds were working them. Was epic fishing, if I had it on video u would think it was raritan bay. Ive been told that a flashy umbrella rig works very well for thermoclined waters like SR, the kind that have spinner blades halfway down the arm, wipers love em. LH was 82-83 and NO thermocline whatsoever, not even a hint.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Sounds like a great morning of fishing. That's phenomenal hybrid action!!!

[Bicey]

Originally Posted by jimmythegreek

Nice job bicey, way to get em. Im tempted to make a trip down there just to see how ur wipers compare to ours at LH. I was out on LH sun morn and killed them there too. From sunrise til 7ish the wipers were pushing bait up to the surface and the birds were working them. Was epic fishing, if I had it on video u would think it was raritan bay. Ive been told that a flashy umbrella rig works very well for thermoclined waters like SR, the kind that have spinner blades halfway down the arm, wipers love em. LH was 82-83 and NO thermocline whatsoever, not even a hint.

Sound awesome! I had them pushing bait 2 weeks ago but they weren't busting on top. Man..........you really got me pumped to go to LH. From what I hear yours are consistently bigger than ours over here. A guy i know told me if i started fishing LH that I wouldn't go back to SR.
My largest at SR is 9lb 8 oz. 29 inches. IMO, at SR the best fighting ones are in the 22-24" range.

I may have to try an umbrella rig........I see a lot of guys in the south using them for pures and hybrids.
I've been begging my wife to get a gopro, but at this point its a nogo! Would be cool to make some vids of hybrids in action.

BTW did you fish the hybrid tourney?

[kcritch]

Originally Posted by bicey

I've been begging my wife to get a gopro, but at this point its a nogo! Would be cool to make some vids of hybrids in action.

I heard that sometimes those GoPro's just jump into your shoppping cart and you never even realize it until the credit card bill comes in....and by then it's probably too late to return it becasue somehow it came out of the box and all of the packing material and the receipt disappeared. I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me with fishing gear of all kinds......and sometimes even alcoholic beverages! Just sayin.

[Jigman13]

I have a GoPro HD 2. Had it for like 2 yrs and still havent used it. I need to get some footage soon.

[Bicey]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

I have a GoPro HD 2. Had it for like 2 yrs and still havent used it. I need to get some footage soon.

Those cams are pretty sick......the quality of the picture is ridiculous, and you can mount them anywhere.

[Bicey]

Originally Posted by kcritch

I heard that sometimes those GoPro's just jump into your shoppping cart and you never even realize it until the credit card bill comes in....and by then it's probably too late to return it becasue somehow it came out of the box and all of the packing material and the receipt disappeared. I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me with fishing gear of all kinds......and sometimes even alcoholic beverages! Just sayin.

Yeah that happened with my downriggers and my lowrance hds. Crazy how that happens
. But sometimes it happens to the wife too and.. I have to install a new kitchen floor lol.

[jimmythegreek]

Originally Posted by bicey

Sound awesome! I had them pushing bait 2 weeks ago but they weren't busting on top. Man..........you really got me pumped to go to LH. From what I hear yours are consistently bigger than ours over here. A guy i know told me if i started fishing LH that I wouldn't go back to SR.
My largest at SR is 9lb 8 oz. 29 inches. IMO, at SR the best fighting ones are in the 22-24" range.

I may have to try an umbrella rig........I see a lot of guys in the south using them for pures and hybrids.
I've been begging my wife to get a gopro, but at this point its a nogo! Would be cool to make some vids of hybrids in action.

BTW did you fish the hybrid tourney?

LH is a tuff nut to crack when u first start fishing it, I hated the place years ago couldnt catch squat on the regular. The majority of the hybrids are 3-6 pds. and they kinda school based on year class. When u find em bigger like 5+ thats when u eventuall get some big boys, altho w all the wipers Ive got I never got one over 9lbs. I lost a monster sunday morn boatside that was 10+ all day long, in the action of chasing the birds/bait i never retied my leader and snapped off a big flutter spoon on 15 floro netting it. Would have been my PB for sure looked like a legal saltwater striper I think it had more purestrain DNA than usual, didnt have the football shape was on the long side. And the other big problem w LH is the herring, LH supplies MOST of this state w bait in the shops, the fish are very keen on what they will eay, artificials dont do as well as herring, the place is LOADED w bait, I get baitballs on my sonar the size of pickup trucks everytime Im out w fish following them, and thats prob the reason ours are bigger too. Trolling is tuff cause of the weeds, the powerboats rip vegetation going in and out of slips and u get BIG balls that just float in clumps, so I pretty much search using sonar/GPS find some life and setup and drop bait w line counters. I dont anchor I have a Ipilot terrova I jsut spot lock and it hovers me within 10 feet of the spot I lock. This also allows for some movement of the boat/bait when the TM fights current/wind to get me back to the locked spot. I usually jig a binsky if I mark em down deep or toss a stickbait/plastic if up a little high in the water column. I have some umbrellas I sue for smallies that Im gonna try, I wish I had them sunday I woulda loved to nail 2 or 3 at once on it. And yeah the 4-6 pd class fish fight the hardest, the big ones make hard first runs down deep then just play u when they come up, the mediums make many runs they dont give it up til they are in the net