![]() Merrill Creek Reservoir is another sleeper lake better known for its trout fishing. So be prepared to give your sonar set a good workout. ![]() Locating these submerged weedbeds is a must if you want to catch big bucketmouths that reside in Monksville. During the summer months, surface fishing is good early and late in the day around treetops and weedbeds that break the surface. Good deep-water structure in the treetops and along the sunken vegetation makes for some fantastic jig, live bait and plastic bait fishing during early spring. The reservoir offers bass anglers many options. Doesn't that sound like prime bass water to you? Standing and fallen timber was left in the reservoir when it was built, and 22 acres of water are made up of shallow coves with submerged stumps. The reservoir's maximum depth of 85 feet can be deceiving in that it has a good amount of water in the 20- to 40-foot range as well, along with a fair amount of surface and subsurface vegetation. And for the longest time, it was overlooked by fishermen as a bass fishing spot. The reservoir's 505 acres are managed for walleyes and muskies (the reservoir has produced several state-record muskies), which have overshadowed the reservoir's other fisheries. This water has really come into its own as a top bass spot over the last several years. ![]() Monksville Reservoir is one of the sleepers in the northern reaches of New Jersey. Let's take a look at some of the state's best bass lakes and reservoirs. Fortunately, some waters continue to offer good fishing even under trying conditions. To say bass fishing conditions in the Garden State were tough last season would be an understatement. Not only have anglers experienced two of the wettest years on record, complete with floods, high-water conditions and lower than normal water temperatures, but they also had to put up with those nasty roller coaster fronts and the unstable conditions they produce. There is no question that the last two years were tough ones for New Jersey largemouth bass fishermen.
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