Raritan River: first ever walleye (part 2)

[thmyorke1]

Didn't two folk just make a thread about their first walleyes? Here's part three. :D

Big thanks to all who convince me to keep trying the river.

Landed on 6lb test on a cheap shad rap off-brand. Adrenaline blasted!

https://i.imgur.com/XTU9ymG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rEnG22u.jpg

Also thanks to a man named Lance for taking the picture.

[JDTuna]

Simply awesome, dude! Great looking walleye, congrats!

[TightLines22]

Yup that was me. Pretty fish! Nice job

[thmyorke1]

Yup that was me. Pretty fish! Nice job

Wait, that makes me the third then since sbalewitz did too. :D

Just fixed it ;)

[BT67]

nice one!

[AndyS]

We were actually up in Manville this morning working "on the river"
Nice fish !

[NorthJerzyG]

Congrats on the first!! Always feels good to check a new species off the list! I tried a bunch of different lakes and approaches trying for my first and came up empty. Ended up catching it in a river trout fishing..... :rolleyes:

Nice fish!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

YEA BUDDY!!! Thats a superb Walleye for your first! Hang in there and eventually the river will reward you! It takes time but just stick with it! I always tell myself there’s something down there and usually there is! Way to go man!!!!:D

P.S. That’s a female! She’s all spawned out!

[Jigman13]

Nice eye dude. Feast or famine. Way to stick with it. Grats on your first marble eye!

[NJSquatch]

Simply awesome. Here is to many more!

[Mikey topaz]

Uh oh.... you got it now nice work man,

[Dave B.]

SWEET! Congrats on breaking the ice on 'eyes!

[icebadger]

congrats on the first eye way to go. and you got that fish out of the Raritan River at that good for you.

[ScowardNJ]

Love hearing reports of that river giving up a first eye! That fishery is getting better every year.

[sbalewitz74]

Nice eye dude, looks like you were near the ladder. I just got back from there and didn't have a bite. Salvaged the morning by getting a bunch of perch in the canal. Congrats!

[Lard Almighty]

Well done, good sized first walleye! That's one more fish than I've caught out of that spot! :D

[Sako1]

Good job and nice fish!

I have yet to catch one.

Dave

[Billfish715]

Does anyone have any information about how or from where did these 'eyes make it into the Raritan? Can the canal have influenced any fish movement?

[Jigman13]

Yes. And a few good floods connecting the canal and river displacing everything

[Chrisper4694]

that's a nice one bud...now get out of eddy's spot before he catches you!