OOOOOOOOOOOOO I was there about two weeks ago and he showed me that blank. Green right? That is the new blank they are using on the updated avids! Sweet. I have a reel that I think is really nice that i got on the cheap. It is an old prestige w/disc drag I got from cabelas for about 39.00...

The stony brook flow may be wadable, but at that flow it'll be quite churned up! I am debating bwtween the stony brook or floating the canal. THe canal is very rarely impacted by rain! only at certain pints will trail run off make the water a little off-color. I was on a canal dock casting...

I agree that you can use a 5wt under some conditions, I actually have a 6 wt I use in clear water; under low water conditions; on smaller or protected streams and when throwing smaller sparse streamers or terrestials. I was taught, that you should generally match the rod/line wt to the size of...

Smallies are the best fighters pound for pound!!!!!!!! This is the time to start as they are just coming off their post spawn period of in activity. Try the delaware (anywhere above the fall line), the raritan (n/S branches), lamington, muscky and any smaller stream or river with a rocky bottom...

This post is exactly why I switched from a mod-fast 6 wt to a sw 6 wt for skinny water bassin/bream fishing and an 8wt for general bassing !!!!! You'll have much more success with big nasty/saltwater flies in all but the skinniest and clearest water (where smaller sparse flies work best). Hey...

I never said they were common or easy to catch at that size!!!!!! During the spawn on their beds, maybe easier, but the rest of the year absolutely not. Just as people will tell you there are no big browns in a particular stream because they never saw them........ you'll hear the same! I may...

I LOVE flyfishing for Bream!!!! lets go!!!!!! Left to right, the first three are pure blue gills! the last three are true pumpkin seeds. Some hints although bream hydridize quite frequently the following are tips in general for catching and identifying bream in NJ: Blue gills: Deep bodies...

Oh beleive me the bass will chase them off!!!!! Unlike most bream, these are primarily fish, crayfish eaters and they are hanging just out side of the bass's personal space so to speak waiting for some fry to stray.......... Other bream, with smaller mouths, are trying to rob the nest i.e. eggs!

On second thought......... I'm in the greenie club, it looked larger the first time I saw it!

No. LMB and sunfish do not interbreed! They are in the sunfish family, but they do not interbreed. What you have there is either a green sunfish (likely), a Robin aka: Redbreast sunfish (least likely) or a robin/greenie hybrid (most likely). Green sunfish have large heads and a large mouth with...

I'd go to the Cabelas website. You can find a reel with a good waranty and a decent disc drag for as little as 50.00 and spare spools for about 19.00 each. If you really search you can do better! I have a St. Croix reel with disc drag that came with a set (saw it on line for about 40.00). I...

If the water is low/clear or the fish are heavily pressured and spooky, I'll use flies on the smaller side and long tipets atleast 9ft plus about 2 feet tippett (10-11 ft total) Even for bass I'll regularly use long salt water leaders tipetts of 1-0x (11-12ft). The exception comes when fishing...

I too am a fly fishing addict, but the best (IMHO) is yet to come! It maybe blasphemy to say it but warmwater flyfishing is far more action packed and........ in the muscetong and S/N branches of Raritan you'll find the most aggressive and hardest fighting fish (pound for pound) on the planet...

Ok, given the cost of gas........ I'v taken to local warm water (stony brook, N/S branch raritan, Millstone) to fix my flyfishing jones. So, sunday I started a new adventure (millstone next.... water too high)......... fly fishing the D&R from a pontoon. First time out and I learned one very...

Yep, six mile run is the usual bag, but it also has smallmouth.

Never fished the Upper delaware for trout, but I think I'm going to take a vacation day and try. In my mind I see me floating/wading the Jort Jarvis area. For a first timer I figure this will allow me good access. It'll be during the day in the summer and not knowing the hatch I'm thinking...

Correct, the northern most range of the cottonmouth is the Richmond, VA metro area south and east: Percisely: scattered populations in south central/eastern Chesterfeild County (VA) and The lower James River east of the city. Baasically from the southeastern quad of the city from Richmond to...

Well in the southeast we call them FOOD! there is no better fish to eat in North Amreica than Black Crappies! Period. I know trout are gourmet, but trust me on this! They are unbeleivable battered and fried with some hushpuppies and collards! Having said that, most biologists encourage...

Crappie are not sunfish (no stiff spiny dorsal fins) most sunfish (bream in part of the country) eat insects, crappie are primarily fish eaters! Blugills are plateshaped with a blue coloring arung their gills especially during breeding season. When they get big (over 1/2 pund rarely caught on...

I can vouch for the large carp!!!! the lake looks like a grat LM fishery and has been written up in Mid-Atlantic hunting and fishing.......... I will be investigating with some poppers this summer!