Garden State Trout

been fishing since I was 10 years old. caught my very 1st walleye as a bycatch on the Paulinskill River yesterday.

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!

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:25 pm

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!

Yep. It came in like a wet rag. no fight. I was told it taste like lobster ??? Idk as I tossed this fish back !!

Troutman wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 10, 2025 3:06 pm

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:25 pm

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!

Yep. It came in like a wet rag. no fight. I was told it taste like lobster ??? Idk as I tossed this fish back !!

Probably a top 3 best tasting freshwater fish swimming anywhere. Delicious, flaky white meat without that "fishy taste" many people complain about.

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.