Raritan Smallmouth

[kcritch]

Hit the Raritan at Duke Island Park to make sure my new waders didn't leak and maybe even catch a fish. Well the park lots were closed because of a walkathon event or something so headed upstream just below the dam. Hate that stretch. Managed one decent smallie on a top water popper. He was just below a nice little riffle where it drops off into about 3 feet of water right on the seam of the eddy. he missed it twice and came back around to totally smaaassshhh it on the third go. One angry fish for sure. And my waders did not leak so a successful couple o hours in my book.

Here are a couple of crappy flip phone pics to prove it...he taped out at 15".

[AndyS]

Nice SMB, you can always go down by Raritan Borough and hit the Orlando Park stretch or PetersBrook stretch.

[Chrisper4694]

Any fish on a quicky trip is great!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Hey Ken! Nice BRONZEBACK ya got there! Love those quick productive trips! YEA BUDDY!!!

[Esox Luciano]

Decent looking bronze there! The second looks like it would definitely give a nice fight, topwater too, sweeet!!

[GetANet]

Way to get out there Buddy!