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pickeral bonanza
Hit my local pickeral paradise yesterday...got 3 pickeral n' one bass...had 2 pickeral saw me off b4 i could get em in and had a few more strikes that i missed...fun times!
biggest one of the day...this baby inhaled my zara spook like a freight train! lake was choc full of tadpoles...they were thick around the entire shoreline saw this crazy lizard...this thing looked like something u see in florida...ran fast and had an orange head...anyone ever see one of these up here? Last edited by mcfish82; 05-27-2012 at 12:42 AM.. |
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Re: pickeral bonanza
Dude...Great shots......I think that's a skink of some sort.........never saw one but have read that they are native to the area...very cool.
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/lizards.pdf Love me some pickerel fishing......First love as a kid......was the only thing I could catch with any consistency .....Johnson's weedless silver spoon. Drag a canoe up in that spot! Great to see the tad poles too!!!
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Re: pickeral bonanza
Thanks for the great report. Nice pictures.
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Gotta love the "Ol salad bowl !" Cool report, thanx.
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Definitely a skink. I think the five-lined skink is the only species of lizard found in NJ. If not, it's one of the only ones. They have a blue tail that they shed when threatened. The tail keeps wiggling on the ground to distract the predator while the skink runs away. They grow back. I've seen a bunch in Passaic, Warren and Sussex County. Very fast and tough to photograph. Nice find.
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Re: pickeral bonanza
yep, skink. pretty common for nj. i see them from time to time, but on one hike up to lake sonoma last year (near monksville) and there were a ton of them sunning themselves on the rocks.
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Re: pickeral bonanza
hit the same lake today and saw 2 more of those skinks...they are pretty darn cool...never saw em until i started fishing this place...fished the same lake and it was too damn hot...fish must have ran for some deeper water...had 2 blowups in the pads but missed both fish
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