Garden State Trout

That 's weird that they would make the effort to get equipment, get worms, and ride their bikes there and give up so quickly. Maybe they got a text from a friend for a better spot nearby? We have a 4 and half your old and she expresses no interest in phones-she even tells us to get off them which I ...

Well, I would prefer steady action of smaller fish to minimal action with one off big fish. I am facing the latter in the Potomac right now and its no fun. Bigger fish will not be fast water and will be in the deepest holes. Big smallmouth can be old, like 10-15 years old, so that also means they ar...

I think grass is also good for YOY bass to hide in and find food. Floods here on the potomac destroyed that grass the last few years which really hurts survivability for the little ones. 18 inches is a heck of a fish-even a 9-10 inch fish will put a bend on a 7 weight rod.

Floated the Worthington area yesterday. Odd amounts of long thin grass at all levels of the water column. Sort of grass you might find along the bank? but odd that its so abundant at this low water time of the year. Don't think T Storm related - Dam releases somewhere upriver? Odd to see in otherwi...

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Along those same lines in Mogadishu.

I would have taken some pics other the LMB and the bass pond, but my phone somehow rebooted and stopped working. Honestly, I have become much more of a SMB fan compared to LMB as the smallies fight harder and I prefer river fishing to stillwater, but last night restored some of my affinity for LMB. ...

I was able catch a few nice ones just outside of Flemington. Nothing photoworthy, but some hard fighting 12-13 inch river fish in fast water. I also fished a small rustic LMB pond in a Hunterdon county state park and caught several of the hardest fighting and acrobatic largies-again not huge, in the...

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You will see this concept applies to many natural things, people included.

I see you haven't met my wife.

Lol.that rule applies to all wives my friend.

Don't I know it....10 seconds to get in the doghouse, days to get out of it...

Water temp now down to about 68.

I will scout out some of the access points near Packer island to see what would be best for my dad and then take him.

http://mail.hclibrary.info/depts/parks/ParkAreas/SouthBranchReservation/GuideandMap.pdf Wow, there is so much more public land than I remember in the Clinton-Flemington stretch of the river and I think I remember the area around Packers island holding some decent smallies. Any other tips for parking...

Hi All, I am coming to visit my parents this weekend/early next week and would like to to take my Dad and kid smallie fishing on either the SBR or NBR. My parents live in Tewksbury so Flemington is about 20-25 minutes and the NBR would be a similar distance. My dad is 75 and in good shape, but I don...

Flows crested at near 3,000 CFS, the max for the date had been just shy of 600. Water Temps are down to about 72 and air temps will be down to the low 60s for a few nights. Probably still still to high for fishing, but at least will be better for the trout with all that water and lower temps.

Thankfully, it looks like you are getting some good rain now and temps are coming down. Perhaps not low enough for trout fishing, but hopefully below the lethal levels.

Definitely agree that it would be bad to fish with those water temps. Do you know at what depth they take the water temp at the guage? You can see why trout in the gorge area would be desperate to find a spring/seep or a deep shady pool to survive. I remember there being fish kills in Califon from t...

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Here is a short video on Gundpowder falls area and its unique microclimate/eco-system. Its also where Lefty Kreh was very active. Its pretty amazing that this unique ecosytem exists as such low elevation 500-1000 feet, so close to Baltimore.

It is interesting to see that they added a temperature guage on the SBR-the guage, which is .7 miles above the Lake Solitude dam has been showing temps between 69-78 degrees over the past few days. I am not sure at what depth the gauge is located, but those temps seem to be the upward limit for trou...

As I have mentioned in other threads, I have been trying hone in on the smallies on the Potomac from the Chain Bridge to Harpers Ferry. I keep hearing and reading that this has been a great smallie fishery, but the population crashes every decade or so due to spring floods and other factors farm was...

Tom-you just have to make a trip down to the DC area-I can't seem to keep catfish off my hook in both the lower and upper Potomac, in what should be ideal SMB water. Blues, Channels, and Flatties. Down here. They eat every damn thing from night crawlers to crappie jigs to wooly buggers to hotdogs to...

Below the dam was always a decent spot to catch rock bass and smallies.