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NAME --------------------- Lou MarcucciE-MAIL --------------------- loumarcucci@optonline .net
DATE ---------------------- Sat & Sun 6/26 & 27
TIMES --------------------- Early till late
CONDITIONS ------------- Afternoons were bad
AREA FISHED ------------- all over
WATER TEMPERATURE-- 77
FISHING METHOD ------- Live Bait
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Herring
NOTES --------------------- If you haven't been out on the lake, you have missed some of the best action of the year. The guys I spoke to who fished this weekend contest reported some of the best fishing of the season.
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NAME --------------------- Mark ModoskiE-MAIL --------------------- markmodoski@gmail.com
DATE ---------------------- 6/23
TIMES --------------------- All day
CONDITIONS ------------- Hot
AREA FISHED ------------- Yacht Club, Pinetree, Byram
WATER TEMPERATURE-- Didn't check
FISHING METHOD ------- Live Bait and Trolling
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Herring/Rapalas
NOTES --------------------- I did more guiding than fishing, but did manage a personal best pickerel that was probably north or 4 pounds. We had a nice mix of largemouth, smallmouth, pickerel, crappie, perch and a bluegill. A musky probably around 35-inches hit a 3-inch perch-colored Rapala on the troll in Byram and was set free a little too soon after it flopped out of the too-small net. Great day, hot.
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NAME --------------------- jerry freemanE-MAIL --------------------- jfreeman65@optonline.net
DATE ---------------------- 6-20 fathers day
TIMES --------------------- 6am-9am
CONDITIONS ------------- calm
AREA FISHED ------------- shore lines
FISHING METHOD ------- drift and troll near shore
BAIT/LURES USED ------- worm,live herring, spoon
NOTES --------------------- 3lb 7oz largemouth hit a gold spoon tossed under a boathouse door-- hit it hard--- weighed at Dows-- fish jumped out of my dock holding tank before i could get a picture, freed himself
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NAME --------------------- Lou MarcucciE-MAIL --------------------- loumarcucci@optonline.net
DATE ---------------------- Thurs. 6/17
TIMES --------------------- 6:30AM to 9:30AM
CONDITIONS ------------- Not bad until the wind picked up
AREA FISHED ------------- Elba Pt. & Bryam Cove
WATER TEMPERATURE-- 70
FISHING METHOD ------- Live bait
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Herring
NOTES --------------------- Morning started off real nice then the wind kicked up. Best fish was a 2lb 8oz Smallmouth.
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NAME --------------------- Chris PereiraE-MAIL --------------------- Chrisper4694@hotmail.com
DATE ---------------------- 6/14/10
TIMES --------------------- 6:30pm-10pm
CONDITIONS ------------- warm and mostly sunny, very little wind
AREA FISHED ------------- Great Cove
WATER TEMPERATURE-- ??
FISHING METHOD ------- Live bait and spin casting crank baits
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Slip bobber and free lined herring; and various rapalas, spiners, and swim baits
NOTES --------------------- Started off ok with two little large mouth bass and a small perch. Then missed a few on the live herring lines. Caught a few brown cats that were healthy and didn't have growths on them which was nice for once. Then I caught a little brown cat with someone's steel leader/offset hook stuck in his mouth. So if you were using that rig and got snapped off, I'm sorry to give you the bad news that it wasn't a monster, but a 1 lb brown cat...he must have cut your line on a rock or something.
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NAME --------------------- Lou MarcucciE-MAIL --------------------- loumarcucci@optonline.net
DATE ---------------------- Mon. 6/14
TIMES --------------------- 6AM to 10AM
CONDITIONS ------------- Fog, Heavy Mist
AREA FISHED ------------- Byram Bay
WATER TEMPERATURE-- 71
FISHING METHOD ------- Live Bait
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Herring
NOTES --------------------- Not a bad morning on the lake, caught just about everything. Nothing to weigh in though.
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NAME --------------------- Mike UrbanE-MAIL --------------------- michaelurban@yahoo.com
DATE ---------------------- June 8, 2010
TIMES --------------------- 4:00pm-8:30pm
CONDITIONS ------------- Cool and very windy
AREA FISHED ------------- Byram Bay, between islands, Brady and Elba
WATER TEMPERATURE-- Unknown
FISHING METHOD ------- In about 15 feet of water fished weed edges
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Rapalas, herring weighted and live lining
NOTES --------------------- Fishing was slow. Had one nice hit in Byram and never saw the fish as it got off. Michael Defelice fished first time on Lake Hopatcong and caught 2 nice crappie on rapalas and I caught 1 with herring. Also caught some perch and panfish.
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NAME --------------------- Chris PereiraE-MAIL --------------------- Chrisper4694@hotmail.com
DATE ---------------------- 6/4/10
TIMES --------------------- 6:30pm-9:30pm
CONDITIONS ------------- Warm and cloudy, light wind
AREA FISHED ------------- Nolan's Point
FISHING METHOD ------- Freelined & weighted live bait & spincasting lures
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Live herring, chicken livers, and various lures
NOTES --------------------- For a while now including this night I haven't been able to get much on lures. Got some sunnies on spinners this time, that was all. My herring kept getting taken by brown cats and I think a snapping turtle bit a few of them in half so I went through my herring pretty fast. After going through about a dozen brown cats a hybrid striper hit a chicken liver. It was about 4 and a quarter lbs. released it.
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NAME --------------------- Jim WhiteE-MAIL --------------------- boxmaker7000@aol.com
DATE ---------------------- 6/2/2010
TIMES --------------------- 6am- 12pm
CONDITIONS ------------- calm and sunny
AREA FISHED ------------- Henderson Cove
WATER TEMPERATURE-- didnt check it
FISHING METHOD ------- Top water
BAIT/LURES USED ------- Chug Bug
NOTES --------------------- Started out in Lee's cove and ended up in Henderson cove. Was a beautiful day out there. Ever since the weeds have been taking over some of the places i was fishing just 2 weeks ago, I have been looking for less weedy coves. I ended up in henderson cove fihing some of the docks and caught a few nice bass including this 3.5 pounder. Am still waitting to catch some hybrids.
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