First time Passaic River

[Bergen Angler]

Originally Posted by justin1982

Decided to try the passaic river today, being that I live 5 min from an access point in Livingston( maybe Florham Park). Never fished it before but where I was kinda shallow. Needless to say I got skunked lol. Fished with a jerk bait, small spinner, and my buddy threw a texas rigged worm in there cause he's too lazy to change his lures lol. My question is, has anyone fished there before and is the spot decent or am I wasting my time. Since I don't have a boat I wanted to try and do some fishing local and Essex county hasn't shown much love in her waters! Also I AM NOT ASKING FOR SPOTS but does anyone know any public access points in my area-ish. I'll find my way through the woods once I get there!

I don't know much about Passaic River but the most places I have fished lately, I have been catching using Wacky casting into brush piles. No other lures are working for me. I just twitch gently at the bottom of the brush pile and have been catching a lot. Funny thing is that I haven't had much luck with mono line but most of my success came with 6-8 lb flurocarbon line.