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Round Valley Reservoir. Puha caught a 7-pound, 2-ounce smallmouth bass that day, a record-setting catch that has yet to be bested.Puha says she still fishes, though mostly saltwater these days. Below are the current NJ Record Freshwater Fish. I've known of a twenty-one inch smallmouth sighted in a hole on the North Branch to have been caught later in a stretch upstream in the Lamington River, above the confluence of the two streams.Unless you become a specialist at staking out lunker holes, average sized fish of nine to thirteen inches are great fun to catch. In the summer of 2010, a six-pound, nine-ounce pound smallmouth sucked in an angler's crayfish in the Raritan River South Branch, still shy of the state record, a seven-pound, two-ounce lunker caught in Round Valley Reservoir in 1990. Our advice is to build a time machine and go back to the 1950s…If that’s not possible, there’s still some good news. As with our list of every state record largemouth bass, there are some states missing below. Kastorsky died in October 2015.On August 8, 2012, Angelo Ruvio pulled a 65-pound, 3-ounce golden tilefish (pictured above) out of Poorman's Canyon. He didn't even think much of the fish when he pulled it out of the water; it was his fishing buddy that insisted they take it to the nearest tackle shop to be officially weighed. The second was a monster 77-pound, 15-ounce albacore tuna. Smallmouth bass fishing is limited in South Jersey to Union Lake (pdf, 430kb). Action can be had all summer with a variety of lures. Whatever the lure well used, smallmouths will savage it.