Thanks! I'm planning to fish from my kayak this weekemd. I'll snap a picture of it on the water.
There's a good amount of large mouth bass, giant pickerel and panfish, but I've never heard of anybody catching a small mouth bass in Menantico. You can find small mouth in Union Lake in the weeds at the northern end. The best place for small mouth was, I repeat was, was Lake Audrey near Mauricetown. About 8 years ago the state dumped truckloads of lime into it to raise the PH of the very acidic water and make it inhabitable for fish, then they stocked it with small mouth bass. I really never understood their thinking on this. When you buffer water to raise the PH, it's only a temporary fix. If you don't buffer the water on a regular basis it will revert back to its acidic state. The water in Lake Audrey is now too acidic for small mouth to spawn and they're dying off. There are still large mouth bass there, but they will eventually die off too as the PH continues to fall.
Is there any fishing gear you don't have in that kayak?Nice fish!
The water is spring-fed, so I'm thinking it's probably something in the substrate that's leeching into the water.
