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Originally Posted by thmyorke1
Rahway I'm actually closer to, I checked it out once last early fall and caught some dink largemouth. I have to return.
Rahway just got an additional two miles of stocking with the latest code changes. For spring I believe.
From my understanding, only lower lake gets fall stockies and only at 170.
A low number like that is good for a closed body of water, but for the a river the trout will spread out and there would hardly be any catching.
I figure the state prefers stocking them in the pond since its more accessible and doesn't need a lot of trout. A big concern against stocking the Raritan is that there just isn't enough numbers, and they aren't eager to shave off some from another water body and move em to another.
My idea was that since the a portion of the south branch was assigned as a WTS, no longer needing stocking, that those numbers get put into Duke island park. Additionally whenever waters are too low to stock, like the black river in 2016, the Raritan is designated as plan B since that body of water isn't running short on water flow compared to its headwaters.
The Raritan already has a few trout, it just needs a slight boost to make it a good trout fishery with some direct stocking.
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I think Duke Island Park would be a good stretch to stock. The Duke dam would prevent the trout from moving upstream and the Fish Ladder dam would to some extent prevent the fish from scattering downstream (although some would likely get swept over the dam when the river runs high). I am sure some trout would find there way into the millstone which wouldn’t be a bad thing either.
