
It took me 48 years to get this
It took me 48 years to get this
been fishing since I was 10 years old. caught my very 1st walleye as a bycatch on the Paulinskill River yesterday.


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Re: It took me 48 years to get this
Nice! The Musky also has a few that either come in from the Delaware or wash over the Lake Hopatcong dam some years. They aren't much when it comes to a fight, but they make up for it on the table IMO. Very tasty fish!
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this
Yep. It came in like a wet rag. no fight. I was told it taste like lobster ??? Idk as I tossed this fish back !!Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:25 pmNice! The Musky also has a few that either come in from the Delaware or wash over the Lake Hopatcong dam some years. They aren't much when it comes to a fight, but they make up for it on the table IMO. Very tasty fish!
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this
Probably a top 3 best tasting freshwater fish swimming anywhere. Delicious, flaky white meat without that "fishy taste" many people complain about.Troutman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 3:06 pmYep. It came in like a wet rag. no fight. I was told it taste like lobster ??? Idk as I tossed this fish back !!Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:25 pmNice! The Musky also has a few that either come in from the Delaware or wash over the Lake Hopatcong dam some years. They aren't much when it comes to a fight, but they make up for it on the table IMO. Very tasty fish!
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this
I used to fish for walleye on the Sacandaga reservoir in upstate New York. They are indeed very tasty. We used old record players, windup victrolas, with the turntable removed. A spool would hold leaded line. We would troll a Rapala with the leaded line used as a hand line. The object was to keep the line just off the bottom. Going over submerged structure such as a sand bar produced the best. They travelled in schools so once we found them, we would keep making passes.