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Old 06-20-2014, 06:50 AM
Capt. Lou Capt. Lou is offline
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Default Re: Increased Police patrols on Lake Hopatcong

The HP restrictions on a lake that big has already gone by the wayside! First off thats not in my years of fishing many lakes considered a big lake maybe for NJ its big but in overall scheme of things mid size lk at best.
Size of boats & HP is gonna be tough to change that should have been considered yrs back.
I fished that Lk 50 + yrs ago often & thru the seventies, recently about four years ago began to fish fall walleye there on an invite from my neighbor who chases walleye all over.We only go late fall so amount of boats fishing/ running not an issue.
Back then u could see botttom in 20+ FT, today it appears that this water is turbid & quality has gone down. Use to be a cold water fishery now not so much now, which is fine.
However the best u can hope for right now might be a police crackdown to prevent serious injury.
Your working with for the large part very limited expierance boaters, this without reasonable restrictions on a crowded lake is the recipe for bad results.
I fished hybrids there last year about now , night fishing, even then we encountered a good number of boats, however all seemed to be operated in a reasonable manner ,which is key.
Deginitely defensive boating territory,not to my liking!
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