gambs44
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With the warm weather trend of the past 2 weeks, the activity of the fish has picked up greatly. The bite's been steady for the entire day, and a variety of presentations have worked out here. Darker colors, blue/black and dark green w/ flake have been the ticket, whether on a soft plastic worm or lizard, or from a jig w/ craw trailer in those color schemes. I fished a new lake here and bagged this pig I have as my profile pic yesterday on one. It's my personal best since I was in HS 10 years ago too, so needless to say I was stoked when I finally beached the whale! In the spirit of the original poster, lets start sharing our presentations and how they've worked in our neck of the woods. Learning what works from other guys is the best way to get bit I've come to learn. Especially since most articles and videos deal with the Southern bassin' or out West, it's tough to carry over some of the info bc of the difficulties that come with trying to fish in this crowded and pressured environment.
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Prob a 4lb. pre-spawner, Senko weightless across a bed edge in 2' of water. Put up a helluva fight for being so close to shore, and was lucky to get it in on the 6lb. mono I had on my backup spinning rod. Quite a feat for the NJ area where the fishing pressure is so high, coupled with the increase in sustenance fishing I have seen with illegale sized and out of season fish being kept. What a shame. -
My brother, who is 6'1" and 300 lbs with his huge mits had a tough time landing her for me here. That will give you an idea how big this cow was. 23" in length using a computer program to determine the size, and wish I had a scale to see how heavy she was. Notice how thick from head to tail it is, unlike some of the bass you'll see who are bloated from eggs or food, or who have that ugly hump head. Released, as are all my LM's. -
My personal best this season, measured 23" but didn't have a scale. 4' of dark, murky water on a 1/2 oz jig with Paca Craw trailer in Black/Blue w/ dark green trailer. Awesome fish, and for Northern New Jersey it's a lunker believe me they are hard to come by.
