2015 Hackettstown Hatchery Stocking Summaries

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Thanks for the link Uglystick. Very interesting.

In my unscientific opinion, the 5,000 pike stocked in Spruce Run are wasted. I fish that lake often and just don't see any adult pike. I know people who have caught big pike, but I haven't actually caught any pike there, myself.

I don't know where all the pike that are stocked go. My guess is the pike are being consumed by the perch.

I feel the 5,000 pike would be better off being stocked in the Passaic River to offset the increase in fishing pressure the river has experienced in the past few years.

I'm amazed Hopatcong is getting over 50,000 Largemouth Bass. I presume the bass population is lower than it could be there because the bass are having trouble feeding in the dense aquatic weeds choking portions of that lake. If that is the case, maybe their issue is one of water-quality and not bass reproduction and adding all those bass won't ameliorate the issue.

Spruce Run, being arguably the most over-fished lake in New Jersey in terms of angler hours per acre per day, could probably make better use of those bass.


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