North Branch Raritan

[thmyorke1]

Last week fished NB between natirar park and peapack brook. Not much action till I got to the train bridge, some dink smb and fallfish. I would recommend fishing the lower bottom of natirar as it looks nice for holes. A few weeks back up in natirar I saw a few trout swimming. One was a large rainbow trout at least 12 inches.

Went out again today but down by Branchburg. Waded up a hole mile and smacked up a bunch of dink smallies. Spotted some big ones and landed a 14 incher. One huge one nipped the end of my grub. Damn. My heart stops whenever I see those dark things emerge from nowhere.

Deep slow holes didnt produce much, but rather shallow parts.

Not much weeds growing compared to previous years. Water was also clear.

Saturday morning I fished around nevius and someone pulled a HUGE smb out of shallow, fast, water. Wish I could have seen it up in person, i was down the river watching. Had to be at least 20 inches.

Also caught my pb crappie from the rockaway river