The Fresh Water Fishing Blog

Hey! Welcome back! I’m happy to have you with me again! Freshwater Fishing For Carp I live close to the Mantua Creek in southern NJ and each year in early summer the carp would migrate up the creek from the Delaware river to spawn. As a child and teenager, I lived right next to the [...]

After working some OT yesterday, I came home to my younger son asking to go fishing! So of course I was only too happy to oblige! I decided that we would go to our local lake and try fishing there for a change – rather than going to the creek which is right around the [...]

I like to think that I’m environmentally concscious. But this report I just read is making me re-think my favorite lure! You can read the reort here: Study: Soft plastic lures harm trout, salmon I ocassionally lose a rubber worm in the water, but I’ll try everything I can to get it back. (I hate [...]

It seems that wherever fishermen are, there will always be a debate as to which is better for consistently catching fish – lures or bait. My brother and I used to fish together very frequently when we were younger. He was a bait fisherman much more so than I. We found a great little freshwater [...]

The NSF (National Science Foundation) just released an article about how we freshwater fishermen are helping to spread viruses to amphibians! You can read it here: Spring Fishing Season Arrives … And With It, Amphibian Diseases I’m not sure about you, but I can safely say that I’m NOT helping to spread viruses to amphibians! [...]