[saxmatt]

I worked for fish and game up in Connecticut and the pike marshes we had at Bantam lake, Mansfield reservoir and the Connecticut River are similar to areas on the Passaic, Budd, Cranbury, Farrington, Millstone etc. There is natural reproduction for sure in NJ. That being said the pike populations can crash even with good spawning grounds if the conditions aren’t right, so a lot of pike waters need supplemental stocking to maintain a good population of fish.