Place: Carnegie Lake, Princeton, NJ
Date: Sun. Aug 05, 2018
Time: 5:30am-1:30pm
Weather: Warm and Humid 75 degrees with Blue Bird skies starting off. Turning BLAZING HOT at 93 Degrees with barely any wind.
Water Temps: 73 Up Princeton Boat 80.2 Degrees down by normal boat ramp.
Water Clarity: Semi clear down to 1.5'; Muddy further up towards the bridges.
Wind Gust: 5-10MPH
Best Lure: Numerous~ Crankbaits, jigs, finesse worms; Wacky & weedless worms.
Depths fished: 2'~5'
Limit: 3
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Today, 12 SJHT members and 1 guest traveled up to the always plentiful Carnegie Lake. This event scheduled for Saturday was moved to Sunday because the forecasted Rain and Lightening Storms. Water levels appeared just right but the muddy conditions further up towards the bridges made the bite a little tough for some. Carnegie typically offers up some Big Girls but after the initial one hour into the tournament, the bite died down for pretty much most of us. Myself included.
Alright....Without further adieu....give a Big Shout out to Brian *SubFish* M.Brian was able to weigh in 3 Bass going 8.49lbs. Brian also won Misc. with a .94lb Catfish. 2nd place was won by Jackson Fu with 3 Bass weighing 7.23lbs.[/b] 3rd Place and LUNKER was won by Bryson S. with 3 Bass going 5.89lbs. Bryson's Lunker went a nice 3.27lbs. Congrats men on a Hot, Humid, tough fishing day.
CARNEGIE LAKE TALE OF THE TAPE:
Brian SubFish 1st Place and Catfish Misc. bag:
Fu's 2nd Place Bag:
Bryson's 3rd Place Bag and Lunker:
Other Anglers bags from the weigh in and images from the water:
Jiggen Den's Bag:
Bill's Bag of Bass weighed in:
BN06's Bag:
6th sense Minus 1 CB
Carlos Bag of Bass:
Moe's Solo Bass:
Trapper's Solo Bass:
Troop trying to figure them out in the pads:
Trying to hide from the Sun across on the Eastern side of the lake
Last dink of the day:
Selfie in the early AM before I took a nap:
My livewell after I got home. Who knew Carnegie had crawfish?
Summary: 11 out of 13 Anglers caught at least 1 Bass. There were a total of 25 Bass caught overall giving way to a total of 43.05 lbs. The avg. weight of each Bass went 1.72lbs. There were 5 Limits caught and 4 anglers caught at least 2 Bass.
So as one can see, even after the deluge of rain and unstable weather from the day before, the Carnegie Lake Bass were active early on but died till about Mid-day. Most anglers tried finding Shade near the tree lined shorelines. I had to take a 10 minute nap due to the previous night festivities. Yes... a long night\day.
Not until the last hour did a lot of anglers start getting bit repeatedly. Myself included. The bass along with a slight easterly breeze for some reason got them active again. I caught my last 2 keeps within 5 minutes of each other. I caught another 2-3 dinks after those last 2 keepers. Hence the solo pic with the dink size catch.
With the High Heat and Humidity, one of our guest got Heat sickness and had to come in a bit early and get under the Air condition to cool down a bit. Get well Justin!
Next up is STONE TAVERN in 1 week. Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018