I had an awesome day at Great Hollow Lake today. I started by getting there at about 10:00am while it was quiet there with only 1 other person. I threw a worm out there on 2 split shots and let it sink and stay. Then, on another rod, I tossed a few lures such as a white/black Roostertail, Mepp's Black Fury, Mepp's Comet, and Mepp's dressed Aglia. I had no luck with them. But then, by the time it was 11:00am, I started getting hits on my worms. My first was an 11" rainbow. So then I decided to rig a worm on my rod that I was tossing the spinners with. I landed a total of 6 rainbows from 9" to 12" with the worms. By the time I ran out of worms and let power bait sit with 1 rod, I switched back over to my Mepp's and Roostertails. Then, at about 12:30pm, the DEP came. I aksed them how many they were stocking. They told me anywhere from 500 to 600. Right after they left, I saw the trout breaking everywhere around the area where they stocked. I started tossing my white/black Roostertail out there. Before yah know it, I was nailing 'em. I withing 2 hours I caught 10 fish, mostly browns around 10" and 11". I also managed 2 brookies and 1 10" rainbow. The 2 brookies I caught were 10" and 13" 1.5 pounds. The 13" brookie gave me a great fight on 6lb mono. Then it slowed down around 2:00pm. On my last 2 hours out there, I still caught 6 more trout. I caught 1 9" rainbow and 3 browns around 10" and 11" all on my white/black Roostertail. I then managed another 11" brown on my black/silver Roostertail and had another great fight with a 1.5 pound brookie after catching it on my 1" yellow Mister Twister Teeny Meeny Grub. By the time it had just about totally slowed down, I called it a day at about 4:00pm. So that was my awesome day out on Great Hollow Lake. I was also surprised to see that 3 out of the 6 other people I saw out there at the time I was nailing them only caught 1 or 2 fish. They were spreading the news to every new fisherman saying, "you should see this guy! He's nailing them and catching fish after fish all on Roostertails while we're catching nothing!"

BTW- A park employee told me that the DEP will be coming again to Great Hollow in about another 2 weeks around the 15th to stock again. So anybody here who fishes Great Hollow better get out there that day so you can nail them like I did today.

Also, I happen to meet another CTF member out there today. I think he said his member name is KMK. Is that right?

I was fishing by the big rocks which is where I was casting out with the worms. I was using earthworms that I get in a container at Wal Mart. I was also fishing right at the boat ramp which is where all the trout were hanging around after the dep stocked.

Where is Graet Hollow Lake? It sounds ideal as a place to take kids to fish.

A day to remember! Good going.
So what was the grand total here?

Fished the lake today on my lunch break for the first time. Lost 2 fish on a spinner. It seems like a great place. I kinda looked funny fishing with a tie on!!

-Matt