Its been a long time since I have really posted anything on here.  Mainly from lack of time, cause by school and sort of a relationship with a girl.  We arent dating or anything, just more of getting to know her as a person.  

So anyways, that really hasnt kept me from fishing all that much.  The weather up in Northern NJ has kept me off the water for so long.  I've gone out maybe 5 times this year...first time I got skunked really bad, mainly cause it was still too cold out.  The water temps are in the 50's now and the fishing is starting to pick up some.  Last Saturday, I went with my dad to ***** Lake and for the first 2 hours I managed to catch 2 two pound LM's and my dad caught nothing.  It was starting to get late...maybe 7:15 or so, so we started to head back in our canoe.  To get back to our car, we have to paddle across a couple hundred foot flat, which is really shallow.  The deepest is probably 2 feet deep and it goes to about 6 inches in some places.  We have been fishing this body of water for close to 6 years now and have never caught anything in that portion of the lake.  Rowing across the flat, we saw some ripples of fish swimming away from us.  Deciding to try fishing here...we stopped the boat and on the first cast my dad lands a nice pound bass.  He was using a #3 Mepps aglia firetiger and I was using a Zoom junebug salamander with chartruese tail.  First cast I land a fish, next cast so does he.  For the next 35 mins. we were catching fish every other cast, nonstop.  We both ended up finishing up the day with 25 fish apiece and the big fish (LM) going 7 lbs.  It stretched to 21" length and 15" girth, but it was built like a football player...very solid.  No pictures were taken, for we had forgotten the camera at home and all fish were released.

We are going to try some new bodies of water that look promising around us, but we only hit the places where bigger boats can't go.  Which keeps the fishing pressure down and makes it more fun for us

Great report and smart thinking about that shallow area.  A light-in-weight topwater lure would have probably done well too.

Dan