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KenBeam
10-07-2016, 09:13 PM
So I`ve been reading about this Delaware Raritan Canal and what kind of fish lurk there. But I know absolutely nothing about this waterway & was hoping you guys could get me started as I have never been there.

Things that I read claims there are Muskies & Pike in there. So that definitely piqued my interest. I`m sure more than a few of you out there can tell me a little bit about this & possibly where to throw the `Yak in.

Appreciate any insight that you guys share.

Thanks a lot,

Ken-
crewchief2
10-08-2016, 09:03 AM
Sent you a PM
CMJeepster
10-12-2016, 10:55 AM
I've caught the following fish in there: LMB, rock bass, chain pickerel, white crappie, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, bluegill sunfish, brook trout, SMB
NJ219bands
10-17-2016, 03:44 PM
Park closes at sunset. Sergeant Scott Seitz would like to give an $80 ticket to night fishermen in Plainsboro.
KenBeam
10-17-2016, 04:24 PM
Ohhhhhhhh yea?............ Well ya never know........ the `ol Night Wrangler might just show up in the dark buddy-boy! HaHa!
Bruce Litton
10-17-2016, 10:11 PM
I know the state was stocking muskies...haven't been up on this in awhile. Muskies used to get into the canal at Bull's Island from the Delaware. (Once a 30-incher went after my Cordell Redfin, 1977.) Ditto walleye (and SMB), and apparently every lock has a few walleye hanging around, maybe fewer than that overall. Since the 1980's, when the canal got drained and dredged, fishing has never been as good as it was, in my opinion. It's mostly pickerel and largemouths, but I can't think off-hand where to launch...maybe that park in South Bound Brook.
Almaink
10-18-2016, 05:30 PM
Check out the feeder canal from West Trenton north to Lambertville for Muskies. I caught one two years ago on a spinner while trout fishing and I've seen them cruising the shorelines many times looking for stringers of trout. I've also caught Small and Large mouth bass, channel cats, huge carp, pickerel, and crappies in there.
Jigman13
10-18-2016, 06:09 PM
Live sunfish. That is all...

Oh, and heavy fluoro leader and big hooks esp if fishing ANY lock.
jas160
10-19-2016, 10:54 AM
I remember seeing a photo of a muskie caught in the canal at the bait shop that used to be on Amwell rd, but it looked pretty dated. I usually fish the canal in the blackwells mill and griggstown area. Lots of pickerel, lmb, sunnies, crappies, and a few yellow perch. If you drive on canal rd in the blackwells mill and griggstown area, there should be a few pull offs to drop in a kayak.
KenBeam
10-19-2016, 11:54 AM
Appreciate everyone`s insight about fishing in the Canal. Again, I don`t know anything about it(other than what you guys have shared with me here).....

If you`re on Rte. 29 a good ways below Lambertville....... is that the Canal I see on my right going south? I guessing it is........
Almaink
10-19-2016, 12:24 PM
Appreciate everyone`s insight about fishing in the Canal. Again, I don`t know anything about it(other than what you guys have shared with me here).....

If you`re on Rte. 29 a good ways below Lambertville....... is that the Canal I see on my right going south? I guessing it is........


Yes it is the Feeder part.
Here is a Map
http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/parkmap.pdf