Re: End of the year report
Take it from a member in NY state... There is no where in NY I can go and catch fish like that with any regularity.. The pics don't lie... Yes there are huge walleyes in Lake Erie, but they are only caught trolling, mostly on big boats and lots of know how.... Same with trout/salmon.. We have big fish and big water, but its specialized, strictly trolling, usually large boats with extensive expensive gear..
We have some good FW fishing for bass, pike, trout, but its selected waters, that are much harder to fish than NJ waters .. My "home" lake of Cayuga is 40 miles long 2 miles wide and 400+ feet deep... Yes we can catch lake trout jigging, but things like rainbows, browns salmon, are for hard core trollers with a lot of time, gear, and know how. In early spring here the lakers are 250 feet down. Try jigging for them in a 14 foot boat with a 1 oz jig with the wind blowing 30 knots. I don't even try any more.
No where in NY do we have a Pike fishery as good as the Passaic River... Yes they are here, but try catching them in these massive lakes where they don't act like Pike,, they often suspend near the alewife schools, and are caught 60 feet down by guys trolling for salmon... The walleyes in the susquehanna river are gone, simply disappeared..
Walleyes are in the very large lakes and rivers but again, try going out with some jigs and live bait and see what that gets you.. Its a slog trying to fish these massive waters... Yes NJ lakes are tiny compared to what we have here in NY, but the management is 1000 X better.. We have NO hybrid Stripers, very few crappies in most of the lakes, although there are some good lakes for them further north such as Lake George and Black Lake, no White Perch, Almost NO Walleyes are stocked here, its all trout and salmon all the time, and almost all of those go to the tourist lakes- Ontario, Erie-Finger Lakes etc.. The fishing in a lot of the small lakes here i downright awful.. btw, NY stocks 1 YO trout in its put and take waters, They average about 8 inches.. NJ puts 2 year olds in its waters that are close to 12.. It is what it is...
However the pics don't lie... NJ for its size and limited water resources has the absolute best fresh water fishing and more importantly, the BEST fisheries management anywhere... I have lived for decades and fished for decades in both states. As far as fishing, I would MUCH rather be in NJ....bob
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