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I live on and fish the Rockaway River all the time. Never once caught, seen, or heard about a pike above the reservoir, but there are plenty of chain pickerel up here.

Below the reservoir is a different story, that area is a pike nursery.

From the design of the dam, I don't see how it would be possible for fish to migrate from the lower Rockaway into the reservoir. Also, Boonton falls is 24' iirc, I seriously doubt that anything is migrating upstream from that either. Plus there are two spillover dams in the town of Boonton that block most upstream migration after that. And then more dams in Rockaway boro... So I doubt anything is moving up river