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Fishing Show Season is here!

Feb 19

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With winter moving along (heck, did it even start this year?) the fishing show season is now upon us.   I’ll be at the following two shows before kicking off my charter season this year.  If you come to one of these great shows, then please be sure to stop by my table and say hi! 

Sat 2/25:  Ramsey Outdoors, Cabin Fever Days, Roxbury, NJ

Sat 3/31 – Sun 4/1:  NJ Trout Hatchery Open House, Pequest, NJ

Please note that I’ll be starting up the northern pike fishing trips in about 3 weeks and Delaware River American shad trips in about 7 weeks from now.  I also have picked up a plethora of new muskie lures over this winter that I absolutely cannot wait to start throwing and trolling with for those big toothy critters!!!!!

As usual, please be sure to book your American shad trip as early as possible since it is a very popular trip and the best slots do tend to fill up quickly.  If you can’t wait to get into American shad again, then view The Reel Deal “The Great American Shad Run” episodes on my Press tab that we shot last year!  I tend to look at them every so often when I am dying to get that “feel” again of a big female shad on super-light tackle!  :)

For now…. fish on!

Steve

 

 

Fall Fishing Time!

Oct 2

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Ah…the refreshing much cooler days of fall are here!  And with it, lots of big fish intent on fattening up for the upcoming winter.

With this part of the country experiencing the 6th wettest year on record (so far), it has been a very tough year to keep my Delaware River fishing trips on schedule.  Numerous bouts of very heavy rain throughout this year has quite often made the Delaware River a swollen dirty and very unsafe mess.  Hopefully soon that will settle down and we can be prowling the deeper holes for very aggressive football shaped smallies and walleyes. 

Another great place for walleye fishing is Swartswood Lake in Sussex County NJ.  Lots of folks feel that the next state record walleye will most likely come out of that lake.   When fishing Swartswood for walleyes we quite often end up picking up some really nice size largemouth too.

If muskie fishing is on your ‘hit list’ for this year then join me on an excursion this autumn to Furnace Lake in Oxford, NJ.  That little gem of a lake is simply chock full of nice size tiger and pure strain muskies!

Please contact me via my CONTACT page if you want to get out this autumn on any one of those types of trips!  

Of course, if you want to go on a trip for some other type of fish this fall, there are Fishin’ Fun Charters trips for trout, salmon, largemouth, and pickerel at many NJ freshwater lakes.

Fish on!
Steve

In the Summertime, when the Fishin’ is HOT….

Jul 16

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The weather is hot, and so is the fishing when you pick the right kind of trip for this time of year. One great choice during summer is fishing for the ‘toothy critters’… tiger and pure-strain muskies over at Furnace Lake, in Oxford, NJ. Please see my Gallery for some new pics from recent client trips.

What I really like a lot about that lake too are the rather large bass that will hit the muskie lures, with these fish tending to come in the 5-7 pound class. It’s a nice mix for having one very fine trophy trip!

I also love getting out there on the Delaware River in summer for late day top water smallmouth bass action. That’s another great option for this time of the year, along with lakes for seeking open water trout, and going down even deeper for Lake Trout fishing.