Well it's been almost a year I have put in (conditions permitted) at least 1 day out of the week on the Raritan. I have enjoyed the great posts (R.R.A.A.A) from the Raritan guys, thank you.
I think I have been putting in enough time to start posting myself and contributing. I fish the Raritan from the Duke dam down to Manville.
I have not made it to the river today, but fished all of Friday, Saturday, and a couple hours on Sunday.The small mouth bite is nice.. I have been using shiners lately ( mediums and large size) The smallies have been nailing them at times the second the bait bits the water!! Fish on! They were aggressive this weekend. I am constantly looking for new holes, the one I fished this weekend ( a couple hundred yards down river from a common fishing spot) produced small mouths up to 3lbs+ Found them in slack water down river after a nice drift.
If your using bait use as little weight as possible because the Channels are hitting hard on the Raritan lately. I have pulled in some very nice sized catfish the last week bass fishing. Unless catfish is your thing , gotta try and keep the bait up. Again if your looking for Channels they are definitely hitting on the Raritan.
Only one big eye this month
looking forward to more big eye action as the water temp goes down.
Its a pleasure to start posting with you all about fishing on the Raritan. Thanks again for all the great posts, keep them coming..... Hope to meet some of you guys out there. This season I am the guy with the Black Under Armour hat with the license hanging off the back.
Say what's up.
Hope to make it down there today sometime...will let ya know if anything special is going on.
