Plucked an eye from canal last nite...10/13

[Jigman13]

Did some run and gun in a few diff areas last night of the river to avoid the weeds and leaves in some of my frequented spots. Kept to the path on the lower stretches bobbing and weaving into areas with castable shoreline room. Just rock bass. While walking back to my car I was flipping soft plastics in the canal and whacked this lil bugger. Quick pic and released. Saw some big channels cruising the canal too. Might try that one nite with cut and live bait...

[thmyorke1]

That walleye on its journey from the delaware to the raritan taking the canal, the great pilgrimage!

[AndyS]

Seems like no matter what body of water you fish you catch walleye !!

[Mark B.]

That walleye on its journey from the delaware to the raritan taking the canal, the great pilgrimage!


The D&R Canal: a manmade, perpetual, stocking conduit for the mainstem Raritan River.

[thmyorke1]

The D&R Canal: a manmade, perpetual, stocking conduit for the mainstem Raritan River.

Lol true!

I find it amazing how they make it through those spillways.

[Jigman13]

The D&R Canal: a manmade, perpetual, stocking conduit for the mainstem Raritan River.

I'm guessing this is where the pure strain Muskies are coming from too?

[JDTuna]

Sweet dude!

[Mark B.]

I'm guessing this is where the pure strain Muskies are coming from too?

Yes. 340,236 were stocked in the Delaware River in 2016:

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/fwfisheries/htown_stocking_mk16.pdf

Any thing that swims in the Delaware River, also swims in the lower Raritan River.