It took me 48 years to get this

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It took me 48 years to get this

Post by Troutman » Thu Jun 05, 2025 9:18 am

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

Post by Rusty Spinner » 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!
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this

Post by Troutman » 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 !!
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this

Post by Rusty Spinner » Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:52 am

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.
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Re: It took me 48 years to get this

Post by barkeater » Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:46 am

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.

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