Delaware Raritan Canal questions..... Need some advice please?

[NJ219bands]

Park closes at sunset. Sergeant Scott Seitz would like to give an $80 ticket to night fishermen in Plainsboro.

[KenBeam]

Ohhhhhhhh yea?............ Well ya never know........ the `ol Night Wrangler might just show up in the dark buddy-boy! HaHa!

[Bruce Litton]

I know the state was stocking muskies...haven't been up on this in awhile. Muskies used to get into the canal at Bull's Island from the Delaware. (Once a 30-incher went after my Cordell Redfin, 1977.) Ditto walleye (and SMB), and apparently every lock has a few walleye hanging around, maybe fewer than that overall. Since the 1980's, when the canal got drained and dredged, fishing has never been as good as it was, in my opinion. It's mostly pickerel and largemouths, but I can't think off-hand where to launch...maybe that park in South Bound Brook.

[Almaink]

Check out the feeder canal from West Trenton north to Lambertville for Muskies. I caught one two years ago on a spinner while trout fishing and I've seen them cruising the shorelines many times looking for stringers of trout. I've also caught Small and Large mouth bass, channel cats, huge carp, pickerel, and crappies in there.

[Jigman13]

Live sunfish. That is all...

Oh, and heavy fluoro leader and big hooks esp if fishing ANY lock.

[jas160]

I remember seeing a photo of a muskie caught in the canal at the bait shop that used to be on Amwell rd, but it looked pretty dated. I usually fish the canal in the blackwells mill and griggstown area. Lots of pickerel, lmb, sunnies, crappies, and a few yellow perch. If you drive on canal rd in the blackwells mill and griggstown area, there should be a few pull offs to drop in a kayak.

[KenBeam]

Appreciate everyone`s insight about fishing in the Canal. Again, I don`t know anything about it(other than what you guys have shared with me here).....

If you`re on Rte. 29 a good ways below Lambertville....... is that the Canal I see on my right going south? I guessing it is........