Griggstown Canal float and Pre-work Union County Bass

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I won a couple coupons for free canoe rentalsat Griggstown Canoe during a charity auction a while back and since I had two of my oldest friends visiting for the weekend no plans it seemed like a good time to cash them in.

I had done some recon on google earth and identified a point north of Griggstown where the canal and Millstone appeared to be at their closest and figured that would be a good spot to cross over. This plan had some flaws to say the least. The "narrow" spot I found on the map was in reality a quarter mile or more, and it may as well have been 10 miles - nothing but swamp, stickers, itch weed, ticks, snakes etc. My buddy and i quickly realized we could never carry the boats through that mess, we had trouble enough just getting to the river on foot. Hopefully I will make it back some day though, the river was filled with laydowns and other structure just begging to be fished.

We kept heading north and before turning around we stopped at a tributary of the Millstone that runs under the canal and did some bank fishing. At this point we had yet to get a bite between the three of us, but as soon as I threw a black/blue tip senko on the line it was fish on every other cast. No one caught anything huge, nor even anything really picture-worthy, but fun was had by all. Link below.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Gl2N2FhLXljc00

I have been doing a lot of local fishing in Union County due to time constraints and while I have had at least some degree of success at most of the local spots, I had never been able to crack Echo Lake. Taking it as a personal challenge I began focusing my efforts there to try and break the skunk. So after dropping my son off yesterday at daycare (conveniently located just outside Echo Lake Park) I stopped for a quick session.

It was as if after two years of fishing that place someone finally flipped the "on" switch. I caught 4 dinks within the first 20 minutes and then hooked 2 decent bass.

True to form, I once again fell victim to the 'just one more cast' mentality and missed my train/was late to work. It was worth it. Link below.


https://drive.google.com/folderview?...XJuZ08yUEdLczg