Ramapo River Report 9/21/16 - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

MudCat08 · #1 09-22-2016, 02:39 PM

I would have a NY license to fish the NY side of the ramapo.

I usually use an ultralight setup when i go to the river 5ft ultralight rod with a tiny reel and 4lb mono. Those smallies fight so much! They jump all over the place too sometimes up to 2-3feet high.

I've been to the 7 Lakes area too. That bridge right on 7 lakes road that crosses the ramapo river marks some good area on the river for yellow perch. tons of them there.

There are some nice fallfish in that river! Never seen a white perch though.

briansnat · #2 09-24-2016, 12:43 AM

I've caught many dink smallies while trout fishing on the Po, but nothing over maybe 6" to 8". The river gets hit hard in the usual places in the spring and fall and I'm sure any decent sized smallies are taken by the bucket brigade.

I did a float trip on the Po a few years ago but it was purely recreational paddling, I didn't have my fishing gear with me, but I did notice many "bassy" looking spots that are out of the reach of waders and shore anglers and swore that I would float it again with my fishing gear, but have yet to do so.

Come summer I'm sure that as the trout fishing pressure ends, the bass may be better spread out in the river, but I have yet to try it.

jventimi · #3 09-25-2016, 06:03 PM

I hit the Ramapo pretty frequently because I'm in Eastern Bergen County. Smallies in all sorts of places but like briansat said, nothing above the 6-8" range. Seems like they all will go for a wooly bugger size 8, mosquito pattern, rapalas, mr. twister, all kinds of junk. I was wading upstream a couple of weeks ago with my rod tip down in the water; sure enough a smallie took the bugger. Thought I got hooked on something and one of those tenacious little smallies inhaled it.

MudCat08 · #4 09-26-2016, 08:12 PM

Went back to the same spot on Saturday daytime and got a nice 16" Smallie along with a small largemouth, a sunfish and two large rockbass - probably the same one i caught previously, around 9.5" and another one which looked even bigger!

All fish were caught from the shade. no bites in the sun-lit water.