https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-04-06 https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/how-to-catch-big-fish monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/442ffd68-e9fe-45b1-84bd-05e16f8b8e1d/Big-Bass.jpg Blog - Catching the Big One…and Knowing Its Size - Make it stand out I could only guess the weight of this 23 1/4-inch largemouth. I figured seven-and-a-half pounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0062852f-4d8f-4b56-a5ae-f671e1530e2f/A-Proud-Moment.jpg Blog - Catching the Big One…and Knowing Its Size - Make it stand out One of the hybrids I caught that day I had weighed-in at Dows—at five pounds, 15 ounces—while three or four others would have weighed over five but not that close to six. It was a great day in the rain, when, with my son, who caught his first hybrid over five, I managed to get over the ennui caused by working in a supermarket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ba8c41e2-8b5a-481b-bd7f-cedfabf9584f/Big-Walleye.jpg Blog - Catching the Big One…and Knowing Its Size - Make it stand out One of three five-pound, 15-ounce walleyes I’ve had weighed in at Dows since 2011. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/cold-water-lures monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/11b145a8-21d8-4910-a3db-d2cce18801d4/A-March-Bass.jpg Blog - 43-Degree Water Inline Spinner - Make it stand out Since November 2023, the law in NJ is that anyone in a boat must wear, until May 1st, a life preserver. I see in this photo that I need to learn how to do that. I had figured I just put it on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/31fef3aa-b488-46c7-b38c-48d98537f8bb/Steep-Drop-Off.jpg Blog - 43-Degree Water Inline Spinner - Make it stand out Many of the shorelines like this one drop off steeply into 20 feet of water or more. It’s a former sandpit, by the best we can judge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/53405d5d-5fdb-44b8-87da-848cf415395e/43-Degree-Slider.jpg Blog - 43-Degree Water Inline Spinner - Make it stand out Red-eared slider turtle just ahead of where the fish schooled. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/fishing-for-bass-in-spring monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/432a8d52-e34a-488d-a8d6-a60b7e02d498/Early-Season.jpg Blog - Fish the Sunny Side for Early Season Bass - Make it stand out A good-sized early season largemouth caught at Bedminster Pond. Notice the sunlight on the bass, on me, and on the trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/9efa04da-cb68-41d0-9af8-a7650c9dc638/Light-and-Dark.jpg Blog - Fish the Sunny Side for Early Season Bass - Make it stand out The eastern side absorbs sunlight through most of the day, especially through the warmer part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/dc94d14b-e060-4b17-b1f8-9daebd4a38ca/Black-Lab+.jpg Blog - Fish the Sunny Side for Early Season Bass - Make it stand out Sadie the black Labrador basks in the early morning sunlight at Spruce Run Reservoir where Jorge Hildago caught a couple of nice-sized early season largemouths on a Senko. I got skunked. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/how-to-catch-rock-bass monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/3a56460d-14b7-471d-9992-f5bb43d7aad6/Salmon-River.JPG Blog - Why Rock Bass Count - Make it stand out Matt Litton with an 11-inch rock bass from New York’s Salmon River during summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/9bd7bf56-f593-4334-bc7a-834964affb3b/Smallmouth-Bass.JPG Blog - Why Rock Bass Count - Make it stand out Rock bass are often caught when fishing for smallmouth bass. Like this one, also from the Salmon River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/cf018ad7-4fca-42d2-9806-09de01471f6f/Pepacton-Reservoir.JPG Blog - Why Rock Bass Count - Make it stand out Chubby rock bass from Pepacton Reservoir, New York. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/how-to-catch-big-crappies monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/98e4b18c-1cd6-4f8b-833a-e3f4eeb0e9c2/Big-And-Black.jpg Blog - The Allure of Larger Crappies - Make it stand out Good-sized black crapppie—look at that anal fin—caught in shallows along a Lake Wawayanda weedline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/5bc6ab3d-932d-4ec2-80ae-a7b7550190aa/Plate-Sized-Crappie.jpg Blog - The Allure of Larger Crappies - Make it stand out Plate-sized crappie caught on a small plug trolled and targeting the species in May shallows, before too much weed mass developed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6d87ff91-93d6-431d-bd49-649aeca4c59a/Big-One.jpg Blog - The Allure of Larger Crappies - Make it stand out A 15-inch crappie I jigged in May at Tilcon Lake. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/live-lining monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/bcf52e48-c970-40bd-b017-c257af9f401c/Matt-PIckerel.jpg Blog - Live-Lining Pickerel - Make it stand out Matt Litton with an early season 25-inch pickerel. He began live-lining that day, then switched to spinners, which he caught this one on. Especially when water temperature rises above 50, as it did on this day, lures may out-fish shiners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/3b123d4c-f9c2-49b8-8997-260ba4522408/Cronk-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Live-Lining Pickerel - Make it stand out Brian Cronk and a pickerel caught by live-lining a shiner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/027059de-65ea-4f6d-8685-4af3541c2f9b/Me-PIckerel.jpg Blog - Live-Lining Pickerel - Make it stand out I caught this pickerel—I’m almost certain—on a live shiner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/38eafc3e-42c3-4451-8883-b8a24a7863aa/March-Lake.jpg Blog - Live-Lining Pickerel - Make it stand out A lake with 45-foot depths and lots of good-sized pickerel among weeds that grow as deep as 20 feet. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/keeping-a-fishing-log monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/db1099a9-d061-4dba-b16e-6ba6600083e9/A-Fishing-Log.JPG Blog - Keeping a Fishing Log - Make it stand out I opened randomly to a set of pages of my fishing log, and photographed them, so you can get a better idea of how you might do it. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/new-jersey-fishing-online monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/53c86f45-6fd9-4a25-9d63-9ae5a7a920d7/Black-Ice.jpg Blog - New Jersey Fishing Online - Make it stand out Hard, clear ice you can see though is like the best writing on fishing you’ll find on the web. Writing that, instead of being self-conscious of its status as “content,” puts you on the spot while you read. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/deep-water-ice-fishing monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ea6404f5-55d5-4c88-be25-f74d56aa8659/Largemouth-Nick-Mattei.jpg Blog - Deep Water Ice Fishing - Make it stand out Nick Mattei’s first largemouth came from 15 or 20 feet of water, not very deep, but definitely not shallow. We did get one very deep on this outing, though, and have had them deep on other occasions, also. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/161d5382-e3df-4c0c-afff-e349dccabda1/A-Yellow-Perch.jpg Blog - Deep Water Ice Fishing - Make it stand out A yellow perch from the depths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/3037c194-8794-4e6d-ab8a-c01b6b56cef4/A-Bass-40.jpg Blog - Deep Water Ice Fishing - Make it stand out According to a topographic map I’ve studied, depths reach 45 feet deep in Round Valley Pond. It took forever for Oliver’s shiner to reach the bottom about 40 feet under the ice, where the bass I photographed him with struck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/7fe66b2f-5499-420e-9c51-dbf13bc0e951/A-Bass-Conversation.jpg Blog - Deep Water Ice Fishing - Make it stand out Oliver Round and Nick Mattei talk about the nice one Nick jigged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/4f66cd63-69e5-44cb-9504-a1a3a11e9066/A-Good-Bass.jpg Blog - Deep Water Ice Fishing - Make it stand out The nice bass that Nick Mattei jigged using the smallest size Rapala Ice Jig. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/live-life-on-your-own-terms monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/d1003cd0-ea03-4409-922c-c99b492d212b/Long-Branch-New-Jersey.jpg Blog - Live Life on Your Own Terms - Make it stand out Solitude at sunrise on an Atlantic jetty. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/round-valley-pond-ice-fishing monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6e7d768e-5106-4840-a6ba-98fd42e9cbc9/Twenty-Incher.jpg Blog - Round Valley Pond Ice Fishing - Make it stand out Twenty- or 21-inch pickerel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/139b142e-5036-4645-b849-ac2451c337f5/Chuck-Many.jpg Blog - Round Valley Pond Ice Fishing - Make it stand out As Nick and I walked towards the front of the pond, a flag rose. Chuck Many with the result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/d18f1c2e-a40a-4464-9af4-212a8e4f703b/Eighteen-Inches.jpg Blog - Round Valley Pond Ice Fishing - Make it stand out I checked on a tip-up and found something had taken line without tripping the flag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0c7b1ab3-adde-4056-875f-bf7a12250a1b/Seat-Thermos.jpg Blog - Round Valley Pond Ice Fishing - Make it stand out You can see the marks on the snow my crampons made as I sat on the bucket. Thermos full of coffee was almost emptied by the outing’s end. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/north-branch-raritan-river-fishing monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/aab6cec7-a169-489f-ab47-15fcb957fd1c/Bedminster-Wild-Brown.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Wild brown trout caught at Bedminster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c49bcf4a-ae6f-472e-b064-ee7521476c95/Lower-North-Branch.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out The lower North Branch below the confluence with the Lamington River is rocky and gravelly in the channel but collects a lot of silt. Here semi-aquatic arrowhead plants grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/dc4841b3-caf7-40a8-b2e9-5a6f5dba20d8/North-Branch-Carp.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Matt Litton with a 27-inch carp he caught on the North Branch in Branchburg. He hooked it on a Yum Dinger fished from a canoe, which we beached so he could land the fish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/234581b1-3b2d-491e-aebf-dbff0440c52c/North-Branch-Smallmouth.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Matt Litton with a nice smallmouth caught at Branchburg. We’ve caught others as large as a sliver under 19 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e4424480-979d-4d23-8e8b-22e5d3bdb03c/North-Branch-Largemouth.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Below the confluence with the Lamington, more largemouth bass exist, although we’ve encountered them upstream in Bedminster, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b2bb56b8-1fa5-4dc5-b72d-38a1472ae49f/Low-Flow.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out The North Branch Raritan flowing low just below Far Hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/7f1c4acb-82d4-4c57-a417-07a509f143f9/Fall-Rainbow.jpg Blog - North Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Fall-stocked rainbow trout caught at Bedminster in early November, black marabou jig at the mouth. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/exercise-faith monthly 0.5 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6b0729c3-14f5-4d52-bc5a-162a26c438d3/Splitting-Bar.jpg Blog - Exercise Faith - Make it stand out Matt Litton uses a splitting bar against the ice of Budd Lake in Northwestern New Jersey. We ice fishermen say the ice is safe when it’s four inches thick, as this ice was, but when we venture into a new area, we whack the ice ahead of us to be sure. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/south-branch-raritan-river-fishing monthly 0.5 2026-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/25a39070-09cf-440c-8978-0b04cf72b1cc/South-Branch-Middle.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out A 4.23-pound rainbow trout caught by the writer on a black maribou jig in the South Branch middle flow south of Clinton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/19fca8bc-9f74-4fbc-81c6-f2ac8e0d7569/Confluence-North-Branch.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Shot taken from the Confluence, facing the North Branch Raritan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0c256ab6-3508-4090-9f11-fbced583a11b/South-Branch-Califon.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Fishing for stockers with salmon eggs in the upper South Branch Raritan at Califon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/85aa9599-5b0b-4c62-9fde-544ade735940/South-Branch-Long+Valley.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out The river at Long Valley is even smaller than at Califon not too far below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/16c301cb-925a-47c3-94b3-08b180de69de/Ken-Lockwood-Gorge.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out When the river gets low, the Ken Lockwood Gorge can look like this, with barely enough flow to see water, let alone fly fish. I mounted my camera on a tripod and used a slow shutter speed to get the soft flow effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/2608c33d-ad50-4798-8ee5-a093388f8347/Big-Smallmouth.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Nineteen-inch smallmouth caught on a Yum Dinger while float tripping the lower South Branch Raritan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/5178d841-d608-4529-bdd7-8495c63e7cb9/Shale-Bank.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Aquatic vegetation is thick in the lower South Branch during summer. The lower river is rocky, too. Notice the shale or other sedimentary stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/105267ed-2be1-43f3-8598-7d8319cb3df2/Lower-South-Branch.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Even lily pads grow on the lower South Branch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/dcd1c33d-f64b-4894-a339-5fc04e7f1512/Tractor-Tire.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Tractor tire being removed from the lower South Branch Raritan by Central Jersey Stream Team. Photographed in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/77c45c47-1149-4a6e-9262-0559c690df48/Andrew-Still.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Andy Still is a legendary lower South Branch Raritan presence, who has removed unknown quantities of tires and other refuse from the river. Photographed in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/3153a26a-e368-4b59-88bf-4f0ad71aa26f/Hillsborough-Largemouth.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out A 17-inch largemouth I caught before the sun came up in Hillsborough, on July 3rd, 2025. It took a 3/8th-ounce Rebel Pop-R fished in the shallows beside wood in water, with deep water immediately accessible to the fish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/007fcc25-19a4-45af-a72a-8a711f66ecdf/Carp-Neshanic.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out A 31-inch carp that took a Senko intended for a smallmouth bass. Fought on six-pound test mono, the struggle was considerable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6bfd7aaa-a940-46b7-ac58-ab908ec7a0aa/Trout-on-stringer.jpg Blog - South Branch Raritan River Fishing - Make it stand out Stockers can be quite good to eat, despite the persuasion against them. My wife and I used a breading with various spices and added eggs. Haven’t seen the breading in the supermarket, but I’ll be looking online. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/knowledge-and-relationships monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/288d7b18-0341-4a59-a89b-eb6c652d00b2/Community-Where-Found.jpg Blog - Knowledge and Relationships - Make it stand out I believe community comes together as spontaneously as you might infer this makeshift one in the photo did. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/pressured-fish-through-the-ice monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/48493c6a-9901-4fab-bc82-f08fe1991435/Bass-Nick.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Oliver and I got out a couple of times recently, running into Nick Mattei and Kevin Glenn at Round Valley Pond. Nick caught the bass photographed; Kevin got another one 16 ½ inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c8ceb964-26c7-41eb-a02b-c45305a7cdb8/Buckets-Equipment.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Oliver’s two equipment buckets on Delaware Lake, the ramp in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/d6808a59-f618-4c46-a049-a73768e7ca60/From-Age-15.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out This is one of the few tip-ups I’ve owned from age 15, set up on the pond at Columbia Wildlife Management Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0ca694fc-29d2-4e32-91eb-0344496e48bb/Striated-Ice.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Not the best ice but it held us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/65962af9-9ad8-4efb-a424-ee251cdf143a/Highway-80-Lot.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Interstate 80 just up the incline from the pond’s lot. The third vehicle we think was that of a deer hunter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/9974132a-d09b-4bd0-8dc6-0eb2c9ab4c81/Phragmites-Snow.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Snow on the ice. Phragmites encircle the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/26e03568-f3e6-4b32-a56b-74fd0d1a9a8b/Tip-Ups-Toppgraphy.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Oliver Round checking a Jaw Jacker on Round Valley Pond. Notice the topography. It’s a deep pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e12f19ac-6e58-4979-9344-924983648ec1/Round-Valley-Pond.jpg Blog - Pressured Fish Through the Ice - Make it stand out Nick Mattei and Kevin Glenn on Round Valley Pond. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/twin-lakes-ice-fishing monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a7c19b56-434d-45fc-b363-2f6844360176/A-Better-Size.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out The largest of 10 little pickerel we caught. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/75b14e51-f4ce-41da-867b-9c0eac3ece12/Broken-Auger.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out You can see the bottleneck behind Oliver. The drill attached to his auger had quit working. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/7759c212-9851-4d17-9e54-3f6f2b5438b3/A-Small-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out The pickerel we caught averaged about 15 or 16 inches, possibly overpopulated and stunted, but I’m not a biologist and don’t know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/54453314-2c17-42c6-af40-ef11873cb6f1/Textured-Snow.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out A few more ice fishermen came in and trailed on to the second pond. Two guys who had been fishing since earlier had interesting things to tell us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b62cc7b9-3d1f-41da-b40c-b6d77c39c15d/A-Roll-In-Snow.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out Pickerel are widely known for the slime. It collects snow. Oliver did get the fish back into the lake quickly. At 22 degrees, the danger of gills freezing was high. We photographed a relative few of the fish we caught. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c25fb10f-9e39-4509-a113-95fe4aa10736/Jaw-Jacker.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out Oliver effectively uses Jaw Jackers. I’ve never seen them used by anyone else, but he can’t complain after catching seven pickerel to my three on tip-ups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/363795a9-5104-414b-a840-73a7033394ed/Average-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out One of Oliver’s average pickerel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/63da1526-05ac-4dfd-b9d3-22049aefd278/A-Dark-Image.jpg Blog - Twin Lakes Ice Fishing - Make it stand out The sun behind a cloud as quitting time neared. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/the-idea-of-america monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/61921a60-2da7-4c18-a76d-1cfb20f54d41/Singular-Presence.jpg Blog - The Idea of America and the Possibility of the Mind - Make it stand out A slightly curvaceous line from the left-lower tip of the evergreen to the boat and to the mountain summit. Each individual point belonging to objects serving as singularities that occupy fields as if each were a calling. The mind abstracts out of nature concepts like “point,” “field,” and “calling,” and yet each of them refers to precise realities. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/fishing-new-jersey-many-winter-choices monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b9fee24c-65e0-48fa-9e55-5990a71cfb7c/Fishing-Trout.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out Fred relaxes at Round Valley Reservoir, waiting on trout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/fb2496dd-2a3c-4121-9f5b-a4c41420a7c4/Ice-Fishing-Seats.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out I always appreciate my foldout chairs. I put a throw-carpet out for Loki the black Labrador. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/23099735-8061-4ae1-83ac-ed73aa44a569/Tip-Ups.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out A couple of tip-ups. The wooded shores of Mount Hope Pond I find attractive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b6a92507-9045-4b21-b8bf-40ba15d0b63b/Small-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out Oliver Round’s small pickerel caught pretty close to shore, although most of them seem to roam around the middle of the pond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/cfa3f132-7511-4515-825c-f98eb41bc810/A-Round-Valley.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out There is a lot of stuff in the water of Round Valley Reservoir after the low water grow-out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b3239e04-db3f-4bf4-a7f3-07c16743e1bb/Blue-Green-Gold.jpg Blog - Fishing in New Jersey Offers Many Winter Choices - Make it stand out Wind and sun made the river surface blue, green, and gold. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/why-kindness-became-better-than-aggression monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/57b7113c-193a-4969-891e-ce2c86242be4/Kind-Image.jpg Blog - Why Kindness Became Better than Aggression - Make it stand out Of the two photos, the other one lost, this one shows me with a kind expression on my face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/926511ed-0ea2-4ab3-b49f-c31e1099cae5/Stable-Middle.jpg Blog - Why Kindness Became Better than Aggression - Make it stand out In the middle between and containing of kindness and aggression, a stable composure faces the world with a sensible directness. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/attempting-sand-eel-bite monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/8fd5c911-36f9-4d88-8673-6412dd4a50bf/Early-Start-Surf.jpg Blog - Attempting the Sand Eel Bite - Make it stand out Long before sunup, we got the rods in order and walked to the surf line to throw Ava’s with teasers ahead of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/239ac61d-d6a3-472a-b871-da25ee74bfbd/Brick-Beach.jpg Blog - Attempting the Sand Eel Bite - Make it stand out The beach at Brick gets a lot of traffic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/f00b5e9e-8d48-4be1-ab13-7b461ac27b4d/A-Fluke.jpg Blog - Attempting the Sand Eel Bite - Make it stand out Fluke maybe slightly under keeper size (when in season). I caught it on the teaser above an Ava. Jim Hutchinson photo. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/ice-fishing-public-and-private monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/43133261-d7f1-4f79-a9a9-c2f7f7896a06/Bass-Public.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out A good sized bass caught by the writer as snow fell on a public lake. Even if the lake you fish is private, it’s all the same given, natural world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/24f070d5-573b-4f5f-9ab8-5f0a4d6c21fb/Squarespace-Crop-Image.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Public lakes are among the most majestic. And as you can see, though tracks belie to former presence of someone with an ice fishing sled, no one is out there on the particular evening photographed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/beda3717-1cce-4715-b055-20ac44e79011/Public-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Public waters produce plenty of pickerel. Catch and release is broadly practiced and eager fish like pickerel easily fall to shiner-baited tip-ups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/459948bc-c5ae-4f33-ad5c-c6d4670588e8/Private-Perch.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Some private lakes have yellow perch of outstanding size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/4a1cc2ea-4ac6-42df-b199-11b51d1f9cb2/No-Seagulls.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Not only will virgin fields of unpressured fish be likely in a small private lake, it may be small enough to be free of seagulls, as evidenced by a piece of discarded bait that never got snatched up. There’s nothing wrong with gulls, but when they’re around—cormorants, fish devouring birds, usually are, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0e8d29e8-4de2-42c1-8120-a510677a3a64/Hook-Removal.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Cronk and Sam Kaplan remove a hook quickly, as action on the private lake was fast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0ff65235-f1d3-4a2c-82f2-70df4a3cd0f6/Private-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Beautiful pickerel over 22 inches from a private lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0cf228e3-f8d5-4fbb-b4bd-7971d14c1f15/Lake-to-Ourselves.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out We had 88-acre public Tilcon Lake to ourselves, and we caught fish, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/44354b7f-4668-4dce-a1e5-d1b45d0776e7/Dogs-Allowed.jpg Blog - Ice Fishing Public and Private - Make it stand out Dogs are allowed on many public lakes. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/landscape-focus-stacking-easy-to-do monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/51be73a9-a64b-44ad-bbd8-96537ec0ccc0/Round-Valley-Stacked.jpg Blog - Landscape Focus Stacking is Easy to Do - Make it stand out A hazy summer day at Round Valley Reservoir. The distant tower in the upper middle of the frame completes a clean, sharp foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e5c063ac-565c-4f98-9a28-ae860240854c/Round-Valley-Snow.jpg Blog - Landscape Focus Stacking is Easy to Do - Make it stand out You can see the crisp focus at foreground’s edge, not so much in the snow, as in the rock near the right corner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/23045797-fe0b-4143-9fa3-bc8249b0b4b4/Round-Valley-Stacked-Corner.jpg Blog - Landscape Focus Stacking is Easy to Do - Make it stand out The low water of Round Valley Reservoir produced unparalleled opportunities for focus stacking. Take advantage of the sun as it lowers on the horizon, as I did for this shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/1b4a1f5c-7381-4a80-a864-14085a729334/Round-Valley-Contrast.jpg Blog - Landscape Focus Stacking is Easy to Do - Make it stand out Low-light, late in the day, but without the golden quality of a little later. High contrast works beautifully in this focus-stacked image that took advantage of bleached rocks formerly on the bottom of the reservoir some 23 feet down. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/increasing-your-ability-revise-written-work monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/38f96639-89c3-436a-8abb-8f6de8f6ace3/Revising-Poetry-Coffee.jpg Blog - Increasing Your Ability to Revise Written Work - Make it stand out Coffee and a little to eat often accompanies writing and revision. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/stanton-stretch-yields-nice-one monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/af376d83-c851-46e1-8671-f288fe509f42/Large-Rainbow-Trout.jpg Blog - Stanton Stretch Yields a Nice One - Make it stand out Nice one, 20 ¾ inches, 3.88 pounds, caught at Stanton, South Branch Raritan River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/eae32f6e-9813-40f9-a802-4d5d8fec6743/Small-Fall-Stocker.jpg Blog - Stanton Stretch Yields a Nice One - Make it stand out My other trout caught on Wednesday didn’t quite measure 15 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b3cc2499-63ad-4553-9eef-755813eef63c/Ice-at-Stanton.jpg Blog - Stanton Stretch Yields a Nice One - Make it stand out Throughout the range of river stretches I saw on Wednesday, ice cover seemed to foreshadow a long, cold winter ahead. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/desire-base-native-iso-camera-tripod monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e2ceb6e2-4a13-4baa-b38e-1f70189c33d3/Valley-Clouds-Contrast.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out All of the images you’ll see in this post were shot at the base native ISO of my Nikon D850—64. This one presented the difficulty of making contrast work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b65c75fb-16a4-45aa-9bf5-59a7f58c6435/Valley-Sky-Replaced.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out Shot at ISO 64 in low light, I nevertheless failed to capture blue in the sky. So I “replaced” the sky in Photoshop. I know little of how post-processing works, but you can tell that sky isn’t quite right. I think it’s better than that off-white, greyness that gives away that you overexposed it, though. Maybe it “works.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ac39ad68-f305-4f2b-a9ec-ae2f69628506/Valley-Fish.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out The subject in the distance, and thankfully not moving much, I managed to freeze the frame at ISO 64. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/68de1b6f-94e1-4e05-8772-4f1f7e4a1e98/Valley-Two-Boulders.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out Even with few strands of vegetation to sway in a breeze, you may need to bump up the shutter speed. I got this shot, however, in relative calm, perhaps when the breeze paused. Since you can see ripples on the reservoir water in the background, some air movement did exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/f925c85a-47df-46ca-8d7e-6d1197da6e89/Round-Valley-Rock-Pile.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out This pile of rocks, however, presents nothing to move in a breeze. So if you take the time and patience to look around, you might find opportunity for your tripod even on a windy day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ef5e3e69-7cbe-4c4b-9c8e-391b41c7b40d/Valley-Could-Stack.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out So long as my black Lab Sadie didn’t move, I was OK with this shot, though if wind had persisted, the phragmites to the right would have blurred. That said, notice the dead grass between the wood in the foreground. It’s not in good focus, belying the opportunity to have focus-stacked, a subject I will turn to perhaps in my next post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a6dd26e7-baff-4ef7-ba69-94443b9d1a1d/South-Branch-Raritan-River.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out South Branch Raritan River’s Ken Lockwood Gorge, shot at ISO 64 and a slow shutter speed to get the silky current effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/021831af-01e2-4569-a8cb-7098287a1b97/Valley-Long-Lens.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out Shot with a 70-200mm zoom at 78mm. the scene hints at drama. In the way the light illumines greenery as carefully plucked detail, against a sky with just a slight quality of forboding. Rocks and greenery seem to dance together rather than merely to “sit” there. Beware of how things sit. The throne is all too much a symbol of our Western Civilization. Everything shifts out of place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/edc5201f-7b86-418d-82ad-cb948d7ab532/Valley-Golden-Light.jpg Blog - The Desire for Images at Base Native ISO, Camera on Tripod - Make it stand out The golden light of sunset at Round Valley brings out the color of the iron in rocks, gravel, and soil. Another tripod photo that allowed for a breeze. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/why-long-essay-examining-life-philosophy monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0aff6bb0-aa2a-4c60-a0c3-fb3c9748cfca/Lake-Hopatcong-Sailboat-Coming.jpg Blog - Why I Wrote a Long “About” Essay Examining My Life: an Exercise in Philosophy - Make it stand out When sailing, you don’t simply catch the wind. You can tack against it by zig-zagging. When writing a long essay, flow—like wind—carries material forward, but ultimately, the revision process is a deeply involved complexity of examination that may yield no less than a stunning result. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/lake-hopatcong-ice-fishing-multiple-species monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a4a20d27-1429-479d-92cc-fc7794fe87bc/Writer-With-Big-Pickerel.JPG Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out The writer with a nice sized pickerel caught in six feet of water near Lake Hopatcong’s River Styx. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/326dbd11-00c2-4475-921a-238fe0514ab5/Landofil-Tiger-Musky.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Joe Landolfi with a big tiger musky from Lake Hopatcong’s Chestnut Point Area. It hit in 20 feet of water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/4b5a1c69-0aab-410a-b6eb-9556346bfb7d/Getting-Bait.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out A friend of my son, Will, has gathered a shiner from the bait bucket, using a scoop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6b361f81-2718-4866-a846-768608fd492f/Checking-Tip-Up.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out My son, Matt, checks on a tip-up. In this case, the line angles because it’s caught on skim ice in the hole, not because a fish is pulling it in the direction it's leaning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a4503327-6396-4d94-b9ce-e41e45e6159d/Landolfi-Hybrid.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Joe Landolfi with a hybrid striped bass, a denizen of deep drop-offs that will take shiners. Hybrids are also available at Spruce Run Reservoir, Manasquan Reservoir, and some private lakes like Culver and Mohawk, but no lake may be better for them than Hopatcong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/cd5dde47-c10a-4bae-972c-0521c5df4558/Landolfi-Pickerel.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Pickerel notoriously devour shiners. This one, caught by Joe Landolfi, was photographed inside the shop of Dow’s Boat Rentals many years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e0c294e4-6226-4887-91a5-080a13a88497/Checking-Ice-Thickness.JPG Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Thick, late season ice. Joe Landolfi reaches deep into the hole to estimate that thickness. At one point, he walked right to the edge of the open water, where he found, if I remember correctly, the ice was eight inches thick, most of that thickness hard and clear, not the white near the surface that isn’t strong. He had learned about thick edges from way back. I had no idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/bc4f6c5c-cf29-4d55-87e6-d16f6b7b94c3/Lake-Hopatcong-Baiting-Up.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Oliver Round baiting up at Lake Hopatcong early in the season before any snow got on the seven inches of “black” ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b73c8ff9-796c-4558-8759-2c251aedb69c/Lake-Hopatcong-Twenty-Six.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out My son’s friend, Will, cuts 26 inches of ice late in the same season I fished earlier with Oliver Round at Lake Hopatcong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/46bbf862-878d-465e-8011-a931cfd2689d/Landolfi-Nice-Pickerel.JPG Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Joe Landolfi with a nice pickerel from relatively shallow water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ccda9205-3da7-4271-8ef9-fb752dd5f116/Lake-Hopatcong-to-the-Hole.jpg Blog - Lake Hopatcong Ice Fishing for Multiple Species - Make it stand out Oliver Round probably had a shiner in his right hand, as he took a tip-up to set it up on the edge between shallows four to six feet deep, and depths as great as 40. It looks like open water, but it’s clear, hard ice. We fished the drop down to 10 or 12 feet. On one occasion two or three years previous, my son had something big on a shiner under a tip-up set over bottom 10 feet down on that drop. The fish got off, but we’ve never forgotten. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/elusiveness-of-truth-means-assumed-truth monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/28c4c6a7-c8ec-4883-8f4c-6fa37ab30c89/Starburst-Yellow-Leaves.jpg Blog - The Elusiveness of the Truth Can Mean We Assume the Truth - Make it stand out A little white light breaking in among a lot of sensual color. Without light to revere as we do the truth, we might be lost to the sleepy, though somewhat palatable, assuming of the truth. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/lightroom-denoise-ai-stunning-results-raw-images monthly 0.5 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/1ed6af04-fa5f-4e7b-8727-896c91554a7a/Matt-In-His-Lab.jpg Blog - Lightroom’s Denoise AI Produces Stunning Results from RAW Images - Make it stand out Since I shot at f/9 with shutter speed set at 1/80th of a second, my Nikon D850 selected an ISO of 25600. But look how clean the image. Such is what you can expect from Lightroom denoise AI. The image, by the way, is of my son, Matt, in his physics lab at UCLA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/1761960730765-WN8ETZQNTLG0395M7Q5R/Great-Blue-Heron-Flight.jpg Blog - Lightroom’s Denoise AI Produces Stunning Results from RAW Images - Make it stand out Look how sharp the eye and crisp the edges of the head. I shot the great blue heron at f/14, 1/320th of a second, the camera producing 3200 ISO. The image has been radically cropped close—the pixels greatly reduced in number—because, as I say elsewhere, it’s not easy to get bird pictures from a 200mm zoom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/8fd5c911-36f9-4d88-8673-6412dd4a50bf/Early-Start-Surf.jpg Blog - Lightroom’s Denoise AI Produces Stunning Results from RAW Images - Make it stand out The manual denoise tool didn’t get rid of all the grain, as the AI denoise not only has done for the other two featured images, but has also produced clean, clear images with crisply subtle edges. Not a plastic-like quality of eliminated details. The photo above shot at f/7.1, 1/50th, ISO 25600, it has good balance from the left in relation to the edge of the truck bed. Motion in the right hand and in the waves, too. It would have been a more interesting image without the ugly graininess. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/functionality-consciousness-encounter-and-response monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/8e6bc9b2-a118-4edd-b6ec-8d1764f457f2/Bridge-Nowhere-Causeway.jpg Blog - The Functionality of Consciousness: Encounter and Response - Make it stand out I knew the Bridge to Nowhere during the 1980’s when it spanned the tidal creek there, outside of Manahawkin, New Jersey, the Long Beach Island Causeway beckoning in the distance, the juxtaposition of the two forming a kind of tonal relationship—like a calling to something unknown. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/staying-safe-shooting-images-outdoors monthly 0.5 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a6f253c1-708d-4be4-ae47-0a5d16b9eb73/Carrying-Tripod.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out Matt Litton carried an aluminum tripod up and down mountains on a five-mile hike through Sequoia National Park. He used it like a loose hiking stick. In more than one situation, if I remember correctly, he had to set it aside so he could climb using both hands. The camera loose around his neck was surely a minor problem for him in tight situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/bdc3d3da-a58f-45bf-8419-3804f98d7601/Now-Law-Lifejacket.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out What’s wrong in this photo? It’s March and Brian has no life preserver on. Wearing one, until May, has recently become law in New Jersey. Cameras are vulnerable, too, on canoes, kayaks, and boats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/99d17728-0729-4a7d-a54c-57df0aa10b74/Big-Smallmouth-Tippy.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out Big smallmouth bass I caught this past July from the Tippy Canoe. Brenden Kuprel shot it with my Nikon D7100. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/eb0baf0b-48da-4102-92f4-d9b8c1972b68/Mount-Moro-Sequoia.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out Mount Moro on the left in Sequoia National Park. A camera backpack is a good idea, one with room for a few other possible items. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/bfaa1c1d-9518-4fa5-a877-9953e6a5b4f9/Hiking-Stick.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out Using a hiking stick will relieve the stress of a long walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/61c3d570-309d-4699-9209-b0bea72cad20/Crampons-Ice.jpg Blog - Staying Safe When Shooting Images Outdoors - Make it stand out Crampon trails over ice a foot thick at Round Valley Recreation Area last February. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/salmon-river-north-sandy-steelhead-browns monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/2f098a60-7272-4a05-b736-f51158f2c7b2/Steelhead-On-Spinner.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Mark Applegit with his first fish of the week, which hit a spinner early in the game on Sunday. Mark Applegit photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e0710ce7-bd75-4fe5-b884-a022490876fc/Salmon-River-Raging.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out This is the Salmon River at Pulaski, just above Town Pool. It’s how I found it Sunday afternoon. Since Trout Brook and Orwell Brook empty into the river upstream—they had swollen from heavy rain—the amount of flow measured in cubic feet per second (CFS) bore down towards Lake Ontario considerably higher than at the dam of Lighthouse Hill Reservoir, where the release remained at 1800 CFS through all four days of our fishing. Even on Sunday at Pulaski, the water’s brown tint belied how clear it really was, however. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/81e1aa21-81c2-44c5-933d-52ce9b7b1d1b/Steady-Snow.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out On the way to Altmar from Big Sandy Creek north of Port Ontario, we drove into snow and roads sanded and salted. Snow came and went all morning, accumulating to about an inch-and-a-half. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/fedcc626-aae2-4833-bbbe-83a3d3e71809/Altmar-Drift-Boats.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Altmar gets a lot of pressure. Even drift boats launched on the other side of the bridge anchor and fish the tailout of the pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a04a86d6-0885-4954-91c4-977f0271df5c/Mark-Applegit-Walking-River.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Mark Applegit left the crowd on Monday to tempt a steelhead to hit a floated bead. Mark Applegit photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/01bd9bac-80df-40c5-b30c-d4cc989a1a1b/Mark-Applegit-Drift-Boat.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out On Tuesday from the drift boat, Mark Applegit caught two steelhead, the other one very small. Mark Applegit photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e19024f7-9afc-4099-acb1-781d34b0315c/Mark-Licht-Steelhead.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Mark Licht with his North Sandy steelhead, the first he’s caught on his centerpin outfit. Mark Licht photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/dcb602f8-0cb6-4fe4-8e6b-d42b6c9cc9a5/Mark-Steelhead.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Mark Applegit’s North Sandy Creek steelhead. Mark Applegit photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/7a396e4a-e2da-488f-b1d5-b98736c73ba2/Mark-Brown.jpg Blog - Salmon River, North Sandy Creek Steelhead and Browns at 1800 CFS and 375 CFS - Make it stand out Mark Applegit’s North Sandy Creek brown trout. Nice fish to finish a series of the photos on. Mark Applegit photo. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/trout-migrations-staying-in-place monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/adf873c8-d0c3-4152-8570-2bf3b570b86f/Trout-Raritan-River.jpg Blog - Trout Migrations and Residents Staying in Place - Make it stand out Brenden Kuprel’s brown trout from the Raritan River’s Island Farm Weir in March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/874885af-c061-4e7f-a010-8d8271a2a11d/Bedminster-Wild-Brown.jpg Blog - Trout Migrations and Residents Staying in Place - Make it stand out Red-spotted wild brown trout from the North Branch Raritan River at Bedminster in November. Wild browns do reproduce in Peapack Brook, which flows into the North Branch at Far Hills. Presumably, some of those browns exit the book into the river during the cool water seasons, although resident wild browns in the Bedminster region of the river may exist. Stocker rainbows have been caught in August, after all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/11818eaf-1a1f-44bf-8c2e-307b55dc0c7e/Darts-Mills-Lowhead.jpg Blog - Trout Migrations and Residents Staying in Place - Make it stand out Stocked trout will push upstream over low-head dams, such as this one of the South Branch Raritan at Dart’s Mill. Brookies managed to get over a low-head dam of the Shipetaukin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/cb086d4f-f63b-4aaf-8717-4d27d87f3f18/Raritan-River-Trout-Fishing.jpg Blog - Trout Migrations and Residents Staying in Place - Make it stand out Fall stockers manage to get caught at Duke Island Dam, and even further downstream, on down below Island Farm Weir, it’s possible, perhaps. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/homer-for-all-seasons monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/2184dc27-bedd-4083-b2e2-baa1797e2d72/Yosemite-Dusk.jpg Blog - Homer for All Seasons - Make it stand out Yosemite photographed on a tripod, shutter speed low: clouds captured as if to suggest the Homeric gods of the Iliad and Odyssey aren’t hard and fast as physical objects are. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/boot-foot-waders-cold-current-catching-some monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/04103fb1-d27c-49c2-af38-e89478045516/Bigger-Rainbow-Trout.jpg Blog - Boot Foot Waders, Cold Water & Wind, Catching Some Trout - Make it stand out Twenty-and-a-half-inch, 3.85-pound rainbow trout from the South Branch Raritan River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b6679f66-ada6-4a83-ac7c-a3748c878a36/Cold-Wading.jpg Blog - Boot Foot Waders, Cold Water & Wind, Catching Some Trout - Make it stand out It’s colder out there than it looks. Tree branches all asway in the heavy wind. Some limbs breaking. Fred Matero gave it his best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/cec3fe67-aa7d-4192-a584-c471326832d4/Nice-Rainbow-Trout.jpg Blog - Boot Foot Waders, Cold Water & Wind, Catching Some Trout - Make it stand out On the small side when it comes to fall stockers. Almost the smallest I’ve caught over the past few years. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/expense-for-amateur-digital-photographers monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/369aea7e-e75a-46fd-b72f-d304ee32e5e0/Sycamore-Long-Lens.jpg Blog - Expense for Amateur Digital Photographers - Make it stand out I shot this image more than a decade ago with my entry-level Nikon D60 DSLR, a Nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens mounted on it, which I had recently bought brand new for $1150.00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/847dd5c4-be31-4eed-84fb-a29863dba565/Seagull-Long-Lens.jpg Blog - Expense for Amateur Digital Photographers - Make it stand out Today all the photos will be from more than a decade ago, shot with that D60. As you can see, an entry-level DSLR is a good camera. Not very expensive, either. Shot with the same zoom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6b8e702f-5d47-4956-858c-4c6e1d528e3e/Stumps-Long-Lens.jpg Blog - Expense for Amateur Digital Photographers - Make it stand out A day or two after I bought my zoom lens, I visited the New Jersey Meadowlands, where white cedar stumps exist from the 19th century. White cedar was logged for general lumber purposes, boat building, fencing, shingles, and siding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/a02096f7-f6c8-4985-9ca2-127c01335a3a/Wide-Angle-Open-f-Stop.jpg Blog - Expense for Amateur Digital Photographers - Make it stand out I bought two expensive lenses for my D60: the zoom, and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 wide angle, which I had mounted for this shot. In addition to lenses proper, I bought a 1.4 Nikkor teleconverter (extender) for about $350.00. I bought none of my lenses refurbished, but don’t think for a moment that refurbished lenses will be a bad deal—just make sure to buy from the right dealer. Back then, I wasn’t even sure what f-stop to select. Even though I selected 5.6, and the background is soft, the image doesn’t come off too badly. The plants in sharp focus in the foreground are interesting, too. I left white balance as is, rather than bringing out the green of the trees, since the sun at low angle cast a warm light on them. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/getting-the-best-from-writers-group monthly 0.5 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/97710342-5db9-45ff-b854-24af554fe98c/The-Window-Influences.jpg Blog - Getting the Best from a Writers Group - Make it stand out The window looked through influences the attitude in relation to what is seen. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/walpack-valley-jigging-along-national-park-road monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6580016c-d91e-40eb-93b6-cb30fc719432/Big-Flatbrook-Rainbow.jpg Blog - Walpack Valley Jigging Along National Park Road 615 - Make it stand out Sorry about the fish out of focus. Either I moved my hand or had the f-stop too open. It would happen that way, as the story below might suggest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/2f44a62e-5252-4f53-a040-f9e7c1f25376/Big-Flatbrook-Slow-Stretch.jpg Blog - Walpack Valley Jigging Along National Park Road 615 - Make it stand out A deep slow stretch of the lower Big Flat Brook. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/bird-photography-70-200mm-zoom-smaller-lenses monthly 0.5 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/20b6b616-66ec-4c9d-a1dc-0a90b55331a8/Great-Blue-Heron-Flight.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out The trick to this photo involved having selected a large RAW image file (46 megapixels) on my Nikon D850, cropping it radically and then denoising it, because ISO was high, over 3000. Even with having cropped it severely, it retains resolution. The eye is prominent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/0e83a810-e1a9-4ff3-b321-b9fffcb04a0f/Mergansers-River.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out Common mergansers on a river close to home. I had expected to shoot river scenes without any birds in the frames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/31ccaaa8-a231-49b1-992d-dc07c8885ac8/Great-Blue-Heron.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out Great blue heron across from me as the South Branch Raritan River flows through Ken Lockwood Gorge, a place where you might expect the species. The ISO registered extremely high at 12800, but since I shot a large RAW file, I was enabled to crop by about 40% after denoising the image in Lightroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/3f0b7bfa-3dea-4078-8b50-d673717ed1b0/Mallard-Females.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out The group of female mallards did not congeal until after a longish wait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/1dd55eb6-b23f-4567-91a7-3d7d5124b6cc/Great-Blue-on-Rocks.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out A great blue heron caught on a large rock of the South Branch Raritan River in the Ken Lockwood Gorge. It almost seems to be part of those rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/8a89bfaa-d9d8-4502-a54d-e27797a2a7b1/Close-Grerat-Blue-Heron.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out If you take your time—I must have spent at least five minutes—approaching a heron carefully, it may let you get surprisingly close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/4841f15d-4b1c-43d5-88ac-94cdcd2a9b5b/Black-Crowned-Night-Heron.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out I actually shot this black-crowned night heron while using a Nikon 50mm prime lens, f/1.8. Kayaking through dense Florida mangroves, the bird was so close to me I could almost reach out and pet it. I managed to keep the ISO down to 200. Very crisp shot, even though it’s cropped by at least 40% https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/1b443283-384c-49f0-b7a7-4ba12b39a6be/Snowy-Egret.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out Snowy egret shot at Barnegat Inlet, Jersey Shore. Notice how soft the head is. If the head were altogether sharp, the rest might have been forgivable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b0d64044-3e46-47db-b83b-666f2955ec9e/Goose-Mother.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out A mother goose and chick shot along Pennsylvania’s Delaware Canal at Yardley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/6c68a819-a1c5-42cc-80dc-73ed8ee9fc56/Seagull-Sign-Sunset.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out The warm light of sundown with a little bit of edge in the sand and the wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/7b29eaa5-13ca-46d0-b65b-f57e9649b477/Great-Egret-River.jpg Blog - Bird Photography with 70-200mm Zoom and Smaller Lenses - Make it stand out A great egret stalks the river shallows of the South Branch Raritan River in the Neshanic, New Jersey, region. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/bahia-honda-bogie-channel-gulf-catches monthly 0.5 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/93fa3846-8592-4451-a9a3-91bd9e0c3375/Jack-Crevalle.jpg Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out One of the jack crevalle the author and his son, Matt, caught in the face of the Gulf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ac728167-62dc-4c6f-b9fd-2e87990d476d/Big-Red-Grouper.jpg Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Red grouper just short of keeper size caught by trolling down the middle of Bogie Channel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/14743382-c02e-488b-98dd-02256e803df8/Yellow-Tail-Snapper.jpg Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Yellow tail snappers are everywhere, and delicious when you catch some keepers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/d06d61a2-f142-4d1c-bb8e-5f893155e9af/Triggerfish.jpg Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Notice the dorsal fin spike on the triggerfish. They’re also delicious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/64f1e5ff-6f32-4e41-9432-4e4556949bba/Keeper-Lane-Snapper.jpg Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Lane snappers are also abundant and tasty, this one a keeper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c3f2bfa6-4760-41c0-beeb-1535ef5265f0/Pork-Fish.JPG Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Pork fish, delicious and attractive, can be live-lined for barracuda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/e49b244c-3cbd-4d72-b501-1388c91e0a8b/Bermuda-Chub.JPG Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out The only Bermuda chub we caught, and we didn’t know what species until we looked it up in a Florida Fishes guide. I don’t recommend eating this species, and I tell you from experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c5555ec8-f8ae-4925-8059-4f14ad5e708d/Bar-Jack.JPG Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out Small bar jack. We caught one or two 16 inches long. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/26e2b810-280c-48d1-80ea-ae87fbf91128/Cero-Mackerel.JPG Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out My son, Matt, with a cero mackerel. I’m fascinated in the gold markings on this species, as well as , otherwise, on Spanish mackerel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/c364a91b-48bb-4cdd-b725-18dbab06ffa5/Wife-Boat.JPG Blog - Bahia Honda, Bogie Channel, Gulf: Catches Year Round - Make it stand out My wife, Trish, aboard the Mako we rented during August 2012. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/workingmans-example-the-good-life monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/578bbd3f-c483-4f45-a5af-23b53b5b5f5a/Fish-On.jpg Blog - The Workingman’s Example of the Good Life - Make it stand out Finding the Good Life, I believe, is something anyone can do. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/examples-interrelated-visual-balance-motion monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/91a20563-6606-4509-8586-382d33b87ea4/Balance-and-Motion.jpg Blog - Examples of Interrelated Visual Balance and Motion - Make it stand out Visual balance and motion in photography often complement each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/b2fa98d0-d4b3-4ff0-9a5f-77cae817174c/Balanced-Bassboat.jpg Blog - Examples of Interrelated Visual Balance and Motion - Make it stand out It would seem balance stands alone in this image, but notice that the boat’s directional leaning suggests its moving slowly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/ab09ed37-ccc3-40ea-912f-4a98f7a718d6/Waverunner-Narrow-Crop-Hopatcong.jpg Blog - Examples of Interrelated Visual Balance and Motion - Make it stand out The fact that the waverunner is black and blue allows for greater visual emphasis on the spray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/673fec8f-f897-43ed-80bc-3abd9e0d639b/Balance-and-Motion-in-Steps.jpg Blog - Examples of Interrelated Visual Balance and Motion - Make it stand out Instead of motion being conveyed by the shortest distance between two points, it sometimes needs a little help from its friends. A flow without rocks may move, but with less drama. https://www.bruceedwardlitton.com/blog/pink-berkley-mooneye-under-float monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/686e8fd19d0a490d0c22663a/9278f194-f1cc-4261-8f85-513b1c1245e9/Thick-Bodied-Rainbow.jpg Blog - Pink Berkley on Mooneye Under Float - Make it stand out Thick-bodied rainbow trout for Wayne Fennes, swiftly released. 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