Rvr 8/6

[Moz]

I haven't posted in awhile, I've done a lot of fishing the past couple of weeks but the family away on vacation for 3 weeks had my camera so I was missing something.

I've been fishing RVR and strictly the swimming lake, the state has drained some water out of the big lake and the surface temperature has been really warm so not much action in the shallows to be had. I haven't caught a large number of fish but a lot of good quality fish in the 2LBS to almost 4 LBS range. Usually one fish per trip but I've mixed in some dinks and pickerel on a couple of trips. I've been using finesse worms and caught most of the fish on those either Texas-rigged or wacky-style.

Headed out at 5:30 this morning and was on the lake a little bit after 6. Had a tug on the first cast and then brought a small pickerel to shore on the second cast and he was able to unhook himself (only fish I'm glad to see do so). A couple of casts later I got my first NJ laregemouth that was north of the 4 LBS mark. Put up a great fight on my baitcaster and pulled some drag off on a couple of runs too. I got one decent pic before putting him back as I had some auto-timer issues (rusty).

I hooked into another solid fish when I switched over to a tube when the wind picked up, might have been in the same class as this one but it sheared my leader on the rocks and left me with nothing. One dink before I left and a pretty good 3 1/2 hours this mornin and a state PB. Might head back this afternoon with my son to see if we can hook him into something big.