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Originally Posted by Cshadis92
Rockaway I'm unfamiliar with. Passaic river tributary Known as the dead river is a ton of fun to kayak and fish. I have bowfished it and shot some disgustingly large carp, caught lots of bullhead Cats. I'm sure there are pike and pickerel in the same spots, I just don't know how to target or fish for them.
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I live right by there.
I don't often go back there because I always assumed it was private property. Before I made this post I did a property tax search and the land comes back as belonging to the "Passaic River Coalition" and the Township of Warren and Bernardsville.
This is really confusing because I thought that was private land that was leased to a hunting club...
I have my doubts about catching pike in the Dead River. That section of the river is about two dams above the nearest stocking location. Some pike must wander above the dams during floods because people have shown me pike they caught in the Passaic in the New Providence/Berkely Heights area. There may be some pike back there, just very very few.
That Dead River area mostly has Yellow Bullheads, Carp, and a lot of small sunnies. Poke around long enough and you may find some bass and pickerel, but I never found the effort sufficiently rewarding enough to continue fishing the area.
If anybody is kayaking the area next spring, send me a PM and maybe we can meet up. It's always good to have help hauling a kayak over the trees that have fallen across the river.
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