Raritan river 4/5/25:

[AndyS]

4/5/25: FINALLY caught a fish, rolled a few others. Saw bald eagles and osprey. Nice meeting fellow NJF members. People running and gunning, coming and going. Box of chocolates down here on the Raritan !

[Sako1]

Thanks for the pics Andy, nice tank SMB!

Dave

[AndyS]

Thanks for the pics Andy, nice tank SMB!

Dave

Seemed like all spots held fish, river is finally starting to wake up, did you get anything up top ??

[Pondhopper8]

Nice 👍. Looks like a good day Andy

[Jigman13]

That's shuckers opening day smallie! He's passed the torch! Lol... nice fish Andy

[AndyS]

That's shuckers opening day smallie! He's passed the torch! Lol... nice fish Andy

Nice variety today, even a creek chub, they type we see often fishing the UDR. People were coming and going. Everything benefits when you peel thousands of tires off the river bottom but I think the smallmouth bass really gain from it the most. Notice I didn't post a tire photo from today, because I didn't see any !!!

[AndyS]

The smallmouth was caught just below where the Robert St. dam once stood. I can't tell you how much whining and crying from fishermen I have to listen to about removing dams. Removing dams improves fishing and habitat on the Raritan river ! At no point during the day did we fish on or close to any dams.

[bigfishy]

Nice lookin rainbow....pretty perfect for a fresh stocker!! Ya think it's a holdover andy? Sea run?