Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

Amazing the amount of baitfish in the river. Manville stretch is getting better, pretty cool to see so many baby largemouth in the shallows also. :)

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

Some are young-of-the-year American Shad, no doubt.

The other evening, on the Delaware River, I caught 8 smallies (7 – 19”) on a Rapala Skitter Pop (shad pattern).

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

I got a question. I attached a pic. There were tens of thousand of these fish in the Delaware.
I assumed they were alewife, but I'm thinking maybe they're young-of-the-year shad. What do you make of this?
When one of those huge schools of fish move under your boat, the fishing just stops dead. I suspect it's because the predators can't sense your lure with all the noise created by a huge school of bait fish.

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

The future of the BIG D! Shad fry!!!

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

Shad Fry????? Do they taste as good as Pulled Pork Cheese Fries????:eek:

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

All the baitfish were long and slender, no deep bodied fish.

Re: Raritan river 9/17/15:
 

I doubt anything tastes better than PPCF !