Question for you Delaware smallie guys

[Drossi]

FWIW I got some intel from a person tied into the PFBC who participated in years of surveys in that area. Per him the smallie population decreases as you go downriver from the I78 bridge bottoming out in the Trenton area. He said they hold in very specific places but not everywhere you would find them in the upper river so unless you knew the hot spots (and had a boat), wade fishing to likely looking areas is futile. I guess that would explain the boats I saw running up and downriver but not stopping in what looked like prime areas.

[NJ219bands]

Originally Posted by Drossi

FWIW I got some intel from a person tied into the PFBC who participated in years of surveys in that area. Per him the smallie population decreases as you go downriver from the I78 bridge bottoming out in the Trenton area. He said they hold in very specific places but not everywhere you would find them in the upper river so unless you knew the hot spots (and had a boat), wade fishing to likely looking areas is futile. I guess that would explain the boats I saw running up and downriver but not stopping in what looked like prime areas.

I caught and released one behind Arm and Hammer ballpark in Trenton last year. Big ones lived in the Duck Island power plant before it was closed.