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Originally Posted by Reel Class
The Potomac has historically been a cess pool. Similar to the upper Hackensack, Passaic, and Raritan Rivers!
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Yet the Passaic teems with Pike and black bass, all notoriously clean water species that need good oxygen content.. The Raritan has been going great guns with trout and smallies for years and Walleyes are more common every year.
The Hacky is loaded with fish these days.. A damn Sheepshead was caught there last year.... Same with the Hudson, simply loaded with fish of all species, and people eat them all te time...
The "cess pool "status you allocated to the rivers in question was well deserved , until the 80's.. The turnaround has been slow, but steady, and compared to what I knew as a young man in NJ, has been dramatic...
Much of the pcp and chemical pollution is under decades of sediment, and will stay there hopefully.. I was unable to fish the Passaic as a kid. There were NO fish except eels and killies.Same with the Hacky..The Passaic is now one of the premier Pike fisheries on the east coast, and the Hacky yields 25 pound stripers to urban fishermen in relative isolation. I am very hopeful for the rivers you mentioned. They get cleaner and more productive each year.... bob
