On line petition for the lower Raritan river:

[ChaosStarter]

Originally Posted by Super

Two things...

I don't think the shad restoration/dam removal projects have any impact on trout stocking, especially at this time.

Are you sure you want to stock that area with trout? It's a big, wide, slow river that won't hold trout over. My thought is that the catch rate of stocked trout will be really low, and they will all die when water temps rise in July. Better water to stock pike or channel catfish, IMHO.

We don't need more pike in that river as they're already getting in from the D&R canal. We need to go for walleye or smallmouth/largemouth IMO. I'm not arguing over the trout thing. I just wish bass fisherman would step up efforts and not lay down to the trout guys (no offense to those of you out there).