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smallies/largemouths

Eagle Claw

Trout Hunter
a friend invited me to fish the Manasquan resevoir from the shore with him. I never fished a lake for warm water fish with a fly rod. Does anyone have any recomondations on patterns I should use on top and bottom ?
 
Clouser minnows between 4-1/0 and Woolly Buggers are my favorites, but any other large streamer patterns for your fly box will probably work. I like letting clousers sink deep along rocky structure and retrieve slowly. You can give poppers a shot for some topwater action.

I usually fish for smallmouth but when fishing for pike I get into a few largemouth throwing big mickey finns and clousers.
 
Difficult fishing...

Eagle,

Keep in mind that the Squan reservoir does not have a lot of access from shore. Aside from some spots on docks and a coupld of dikes/dams, it is much better accessed from a boat. I was also recently "yelled" at for wading. Apparently that is a no-no there. Ridiculous!

That being said, I was there on Sunday futhering my fly casting abilities. If you park at the ecology center and make your way down the path, you will come to a nice clearing by one dike/dam. You have plenty of room to cast, but have to be careful of people walking, running and riding bikes behind you. As a novice fly caster, I came close more than once.

Have fun.
 
lake samllmouth

I have used clousers, muddlers and wolly bugers for bass - two weekends ago I was wading the rock bars in Guffin Bay (Ontario) - an eel fly hatch had just ended - not having anything that size that looked like an eel fly ( 1 to 1 1/2 in body with half again longer tail and large wings) I tied on an Adams - caught 3 small bass and then latched on to a smallmouth about 17 inches that was very fat and angry. He played with me for about a minute and decided that he had enough. He broke me when I tried to stop a run but not before I got to see him jump clear of the water about 15 feet away while I was standing in water up to my chest. It is an interesting feeling to be looking up at a fish when your supposed to be the one in charge.
 
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