Raritan River: first ever walleye (part 3)
 

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.

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Simply awesome, dude! Great looking walleye, congrats!

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Yup that was me. Pretty fish! Nice job

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

Just fixed it ;)

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nice one!

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

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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!!

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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!

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

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Simply awesome. Here is to many more!

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

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SWEET! Congrats on breaking the ice on 'eyes!

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

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

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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!

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

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Good job and nice fish!

I have yet to catch one.

Dave

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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?

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

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