Ramapo River 10/25/14

[MudCat08]

Just a short trip today to throw some spinners on the river near the Route 17 bridge.
Caught about 5 smallmouths, a few baby largemouths, one sunfish, and plenty of perch. 0 trout today.

The smallmouths are small but fight like mad; I used 4 pound line but 2 pound line would be even more exciting.

[AndyS]

Kinda surprised you didn't get any of those fall stockies.

[MudCat08]

Yea a shame i didnt come across any of those trout recently. I did catch 3 of them when they first stocked it this fall though. nothing big unfortunately.

Still looking for them in there; i have a feeling a lot of them were already caught and taken because i constantly see fishermen on the river every single day. some take out bags of perch with them =/

[ScowardNJ]

Iv'e put a few hours looking for those lil' stockies also with nothing. Those river rat smallies fill the void though. I've also been getting nice bait sized fallfish hitting small spinners.

[MudCat08]

Iv'e put a few hours looking for those lil' stockies also with nothing. Those river rat smallies fill the void though. I've also been getting nice bait sized fallfish hitting small spinners.

Nice, I also caught a couple of those chubs in the river this season. I thought about using them for pike or muskie bait but let them go.

[NJ Dave]

I think most of the stocking gets done down river near the reservation park area.
Was there even a fall stocking in the Po this fall?
Always a close fun river to fish but my favorite was the Pequanock river.
Any word of the Pequanock making its way back on the stocking list?

[MudCat08]

Yes ramapo was definitely stocked this fall. I've seen tons of trout anglers targeting them almost every day since the stocking, and i have caught 2 undersized rainbows and one keeper at 9" about 2- 3 weeks ago.

Some of the stocking was done over by the route 17 bridge. By no means all though.

My guess is they stocked with mostly undersized fish and maybe a few bigger ones.

[MudCat08]

Went back to the Ramapo tonight for some catfish. didn't catch any catfish but did get two larger creek chubs/fallfish. One hit a spinner and the other went for a chicken liver..
Also caught some perch and smallmouth and largemouth before the sun set.

[MudCat08]

Ok so after a few weeks of searching the river for the trout i finally found them today at the very end of my trip. limited out on the 4 fish i'm allowed to keep and went home. First time i caught them on the spinner. I had luck with worms and flies earlier in the fall season.

[MudCat08]

Caught my first Brown trout today. Not just one but two. bigger one was 13" and smaller was 12.5"
Also caught a perch.

Was out to the same spot two days ago and caught a bunch of perch, chubs, and one smallmouth but no trout. One trout got away (I probably caught him today though).

[MudCat08]

Went to the river today to one of the trout spots and caught a nice brown trout.
River is flowing faster and is higher after these rains so i wasn't able to fish as deep as usual.

Trout are still out there in that river. They seem to be the only thing biting in the cold weather.