Pulled this out of the Monksville Reservoir yesterday.  She came up to hit a black Booyah spinnerbait with a single Colorado blade in about 10 feet off water from a shelf about 10 feet from shore.

That's a nice fatty.

Chunk alert!

Nice! how much did she weigh? I've been wanting to take a trip up to monksville, but havent been having much luck lately with this cold weather!

pretty goo for up there, ey?

Nice HAWG

Nice looking fish.

pretty goo for up there, ey?

Yeah Jersey isn't where your going to find huge bass.  We do have a number of quality fisheries, all within a reasonable distance of each other, but as far as bass go nothing huge.  The state record is like 10.14 and I've never even heard of anyone catching anything over 7 1/2. basically in jersey a 3 pounder makes your day and you get a fish like this one every so often.  This one just felt particularly good because I haven't broken the 4 pound mark since the 6 1/2 I got this spring.

thats a nice one man!

good job.

Nice fish with a beautiful backdrop!

Nice fish with a beautiful backdrop!

Yeah The Monksville tends to be a little tough to fish and doesn't always produce but when it's on, it's spectacular and when it's not it's still beautiful and a great place to just spend a day.

It also helps that my buddy's a photographer and knows how to enhance photos.

win.

yea idk, never had luck there between me and my crew. we call it skunksville for good reason lol.   i thought bass fishing was done for in northern nj but seems ive just been weak haha.  Nice fish!

nice work! keep handling your business

Jersey has BASS!!! dear god what is the world coming to!

Great fish buddy.

Mottfia

yea idk, never had luck there between me and my crew. we call it skunksville for good reason lol. i thought bass fishing was done for in northern nj but seems ive just been weak haha. Nice fish!

I used to feel the same way about the monksville.  I will tell you the same thing I was told; keep going back because one day when it's on it will be worth all the seemingly wasted days you spent on it.

congrats fellow jersey fisherman.

Very nice catch.  Congrats!