Re: Will the snow and salt runoff from roads affect river/bay fishing this spring?
Personally, I doubt the salinity will affect the fishing much.
What will affect the fishing is the fact that the N Jersey tidal rivers, Hudson/Raritan/Passaic/Hackensack will be spewing miles of ice into the bay and NY Harbor for quite a while this year the way things are going.. I have a feeling that stripers will be later than recent years, flounder as well... I recall years ago when we had tons of ice in the bay and rivers, it took much longer for flounder to get started coming out of the mud than years when the ice wasn't an issue.. Everything tidal is frozen well upstate in NJ and NY, and unless we get an early warmup of some type, we will be dealing with very cold water in the estuaries for a long time this year.. We'll see, maybe this March will be a warm one, but I have my doubts... bob
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