Pluggin' Raritan River weekend!

[Eskimo]

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Wow - looks like an awesome weekend at the weir.

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[AndyS]

It's STANDING ROOM ONLY !!! Shucker just busted his cherry for Raritan river Shad on a 5" KEITECH !!!

I think I'm gonna set up picnic tables with umbrellas and get a hot dog cart.

If you really want to concern yourself with a problem, go to Boyd Park in New Brunswick and see the buckets over flowing with 12" striped bass !!

[Jigman13]

That's hilarious. Can't wait for low water so I can restock my tackle bag LOL

[FASTEDDIE29]

All the lure donations down there belong to me! Bwahahahahahaha!!! Looks like opening day over there now. Haha! Saturday nobody there! Sunday just a few river maniacs! Hahahaha! When it's low......... I just don't goooooooooo!!!! LOL!!!

Shad???? What Shad???? Moratorium????? Hehe!!!!!!!

[JDTuna]

Great work Eddie. Mixed bag of quality fish!

[Mark B.]

There is a moratorium on Raritan River A. shad fishing because the population is a recovering one.

As someone else on this forum stated, A. shad are fragile fish.

Already stressed out from avoiding stripers & trying to find the entrance of the fish ladder,……hooking adds more stress.

Keep in mind, the ones you release have less of chance of making it upstream to spawn. Such stressed out A. shad, often, abandon the spawning run altogether & become “downrunners”, heading back to the bay / ocean.

It is ok to angle for them on the Delaware River, as that population is stable.
Not so on the Raritan River. NJDF&W did not even pull a seine to document the presence of young-of-the-year Raritan River A. shad, because they did not want to kill any.

[antgogz]

Looks like some good action Eddie. You are quite the plugger! When are you going out for toothy critters?

[kcritch]

Nice fish all around. I should have went there Sunday instead of the NB. The wife and i hit that for about 3 hours wading for miles and got absolutely nothin. UGH!!! They must have all washed downstream in the high water. Or I just suck at fishing....it's a 50/50 on that! HA!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Originally Posted by antgogz

Looks like some good action Eddie. You are quite the plugger! When are you going out for toothy critters?

Anthony!!! What's up dude? Got a new job in a different area and I'm just not near the Pike grounds as much as I used to be! It sucks, LOL! I've neglected my pets, I will be visiting them soon however! Gotta make sure I'm not too rusty for
PIKE-A-THON 4, coming this June!!!!!!

P.S. Thanx for checking out the post fellaz!!!

[Ken Lyons]

Would really like to see the fish ladder at some point but I don't have a helicopter. I can see where it is on a map but all the approaches I see seem to be on private property. Any suggestions?