Rockaway River from Boonton Falls to Jersey City Reservoir

[Bill Willix]

I grew up in Boonton twp also and use to fish the mouth. I did catch 1 giant brown one time. But mainly caught huge bass. Also back in the 70's it was a diffrent river. I believe it got stocked more heavily and had a great deal more fishing pressure. The resivoir had giant catfish in it

[bunker dunker]

i grew up there and have seen some big browns taken from that mouth when we could fish there years ago. that mouth was alive in spring with fish coming up to spawn.you could stand up on 287 and watch the water change color with all the perch running up.the herring would come too and when that started all hell would break loose.my favorite lure was the rapala cd-11 in blk & silver.we would cast toward the bridge count down to 6ft and then work it back.small & large mouth,pickerel,big crappie,big perch and every now and then someone would get
one of those big browns.biggest i ever saw was 25" and had teeth like a tiger.we
would fish for suckers by the foot dam every spring and would catch big bows
every once in a while that would be up there too.i'm not sure what goes on there now
with the changes the storm made but i'm sure its still a great place to fish.