NOVEMBER 1999

Name: Ray Puleo
e-mail address: eatsleepfish@erols.com
Date: 11/2799
Weather conditions: cloudy then sunny by 10:30... wind west 10 to 15 mph
Location: cove by main lauch ramp
Fishing method: double anchored
Depth of presentation: 8ft to bottom
Water depth: 31 to 44ft
Type of lure:
Type of bait: shinners and frozen herring
Water temperature: 44 degrees
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 13 to 18 inches
Total caught: nine


Comments: Arrived 0800am... no one at reservoir... slow start but not for long...fished with friends Henry and Sage... Sage high hook with five fish...total trout 9...4 lakers, 2 browns and 3 bows... 2 keeper bows... other fish released...

Name: Joe L.
e-mail address: jlachowiec@nui.com
Date: Nov 21, 1999
Weather conditions: Unusually warm, high about 70 F.
Location: About  400 yds off ramp
Fishing method: slip bobbers
Depth of presentation: 25 to 35 feet
Water depth: 45-55 feet
Type of lure:
Type of bait: mixed shiners
Water temperature: unkn
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 15 to 23"
Total caught: 4
 

Comments: Beautiful day on the reservoir. Hardly any wind, felt like late spring. Water like a mirror. Just great to be out! All fish were relatively thin, all released, unharmed.


Name: Brian
e-mail address: a224@erols.com
Date:  saturday November 19
Weather conditions: warm, cloudy, sun late morning
Location: Allover
Fishing method: trolling and flat lining
Depth of presentation: surface- 30ft
Water depth: 25ft-100
Type of lure: rapala j-7 and daredevil
Type of bait: na
Water temperature: 52 degrees
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 24 inches
Total caught: 3
 

Comments: Fished from 6:30am - 11:30am fairly slow all morning. 2 lakers short and one beautiful rainbow, probably the biggest I've caught in the Valley. 24inches, great fight and bright colors. Fish  was released unharmed. Appeared to be  on the thinner side . I assume the fish was spawned out.


Name: Brian
e-mail address: a224@erols.com
Date: November 15 Sunday
Weather conditions: Cold, hazey, temps around 45 degrees
Location: allover
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: surface - 65ft
Water depth: 16ft-120ft
Type of lure: mooselook, j7 rapala, steel flys
Type of bait: na
Water temperature: 53 degrees
Species: Brown Trout
Size: 15-21inches
Total caught: 8
 

Comments: Fished from 6:30am- 12 noon. Fairly slow all day. 1 Rainbow 17 inches, 3 browns, 12-16 inches, 3 lakers. All fish were released unharmed, and appeared healthy.

Name: Captian Larry
e-mail address: conl423680@aol.
Date: 11-12-99
Weather conditions: nice
Location: all over
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: surface
Water depth: 20-100 feet
Type of lure: j7-orange
Type of bait: rapala
Water temperature: 58
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 14.5-17 inches
Total caught:  4 bow's  3 laker's

Comments: Don't see much bait fish like year's ago, but still a cool place to fish. Tried to catch some brown's with no luck.


Name: Ray Puleo
e-mail address: eatsleepfish@erols.com
Date: 11/12/99
Weather conditions: mostly cloudy... temps: low 40's
Location: launch ramp cove
Fishing method: double anchored
Depth of presentation: 4 to 18 ft
Water depth: 42 ft
Type of lure:
Type of bait: herring
Water temperature: unknown
Species: Brown Trout
Size: 12 to 15 inches
Total caught: 15
 

Comments: Anchored up 07:45am...action all day...the fish caught were all short browns...must have had 25 hits...many double headers...at one point three of my rods had fish on...off water at 2:00pm we ran out of live bait...


Name: Dennis Haggerty, Brendan Collick
e-mail address: rvtapres@yahoo.com
Date: 11-10-99
Weather conditions: Clear, Light wind
Location: North Shore area
Fishing method: Drifting Live Bait
Depth of presentation: 30 ft and up
Water depth: 54 ft to 30 ft
Type of lure:
Type of bait: Herring & Shinners
Water temperature:
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 15 1/2 to 19
Total caught: Four
 

Comments: Nice fall day on the "Valley"..The wind started kicking around 11 am and catching fish slowed down. All four fish were in nice shape and caught close to the surface nearer to the shore. Fish were active near the surface, chasing "stuff" floating in the water. Marked most of the fish nearer to shore, a few in deeper water suspended.


Name: Stan Lyskowski
e-mail address: stiz@injersey.com
Date: Sat,11-6-99
Weather conditions: sunny, calm early then very windy after 10 am
Location: North side of the launch cove & along north shore past the north tower
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: 12 to 25 feet
Water depth: 15 to 50 feet
Type of lure: spoons, live heering & j-7 & j-9 rapallas
Type of bait:
Water temperature:
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 16" and 17"
Total caught: 2
 

Comments: Started out 6:45 AM, was calm until approx 10 AM then wind kicked up pretty good.  Both rainbows hit perch colored rapalla J-9 and both at the 30 feet depth along the north shore. 


Name: ANTHONY CIRELLA
e-mail address: SHOT1DOWN@aol.com
Date: 11/6
Weather conditions: sunny with very harsh winds
Location: all over
Fishing method: anchored  tryed to do some drifting
Depth of presentation: 80ft.
Water depth: between 60 to 11ft.
Type of lure: none
Type of bait: Herring
Water temperature: ??
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 5 Lakers 1 Brown
Total caught: 6 fish boated, seveal lost

Comments: Got on the water at 10:30 am wind just kept pickin up makin for lousy fishin conditions, was a very slow day till, around 4:00ish the winds died down enough for us to pick up some fish around the South Tower area. All fish were released unharmed EXCEPT for the new Boat net my buddy caught and kept!!!!

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