Tom & Mike,
As requested, I went to Hopatcong today, yesterday was Land of Make Beleive. I got to the State Park @ 8:00 AM exactly and the ranger was opening the gate. The water was like glass for the first few hours, so I drove the boat for about 45 minutes. Pretty cool at WOT when you have that whole lake to yourself and my boys loved it.
Getting back to fishing.
I tried some docks on the main lake, a couple swirls on BabyBass colored Super Flukes, red hook. I tried the island and pads by lake ends marina, again some very big swirls no hookup.
At about 10:30 I went to my favorite spot which I think is under Brady Bridge. I know theres a bar right after the bridge?
Anyway, there was a lot of duckweed in the back cove and the water had a green slime on it. Started using white/blue pearl 4" Senko and got three 14"ers under the docks. I got one more against a rock wall with a Chartruse 5" Senko. All within 40 minutes. Then the bight died. At about 1:00 the sky started looking pretty ugly so I decided to take a short ride and then back to the launch. I would have stayed but I had my 2 young boys with me.
The ramp and state park was not crowded when I left, so that's as good as catching fish!
Hope this helps.