Shadow lake Middletown nj

[larryh336]

Does any one know if the boat ramp open yet?

[phil]

Boat ramp? I used to fish there 20+ years ago as a kid. Our parents would drop us off and we would head up the hill and fish around the overflow. Always did well there. When I was old enough to drive we would park on a side street and walk down and out fish the same area and locals would always yell at us "you cant park here!" Meanwhile its a regular public road wtf. We took an inflatable raft there a couple times and the people living on the lake would yell at us, you cant be out here blah blah. Now ur saying there is a boat launch?!

[larryh336]

Yea there is a little launch in Stevenson's park very shallow for about 200 yards but they had the road going in closed last year

[River Renegade]

Used to fish there years ago, don't remember a boat ramp being at that lake.

[rwp2101]

This is the same lake that was flooded with saltwater when Sandy hit?

[Almaink]

We used to use a dirt path to the water to launch my canoe but that was almost 40 years ago. We parked on the street too, never remember getting hassled for it. I remember the shadow end was private, they even had a chain across the water to keep boats out. We used to catch real big channel cats tossing shiners on slip bobbers into likely spots along the shore line. They used to stock it with trout too, don't know if they still do that or not.

[swcody13]

I'm a 30 second walk from Shadow. The ramp that you're referring to is closed at Stevenson park. Road to the park still closed, not sure exactly what's going on

If it would be manageable to carry your vessel a short distance, guys sometimes stop right at the spillway on Hubbard ave, walk up the small hill and drop right in the water. Decent amount of activity lately... Good luck

[Moz]

Originally Posted by rwp2101

This is the same lake that was flooded with saltwater when Sandy hit?

I think that was Deal Lake. Shadow Lake had a collapse at the spillway and lost a lot of its water to the salt.

In my youth I cut my teeth with freshwater fishing at Shadow Lake from shore at the Spillway. Only managed a few perch and some dink bass but I did see some of those big channel cats another post mentions get pulled out of there.

Was never aware of any ramp. A rooftop launch would great, and fun to revisit that lake. Is Poricy Pond around the corner still open to fishing? Not sure why I think that its not.

[Almaink]

Me fishing Shadow Lake in 1966. That me with the boots on baiting my hook. I'm pretty sure it was opening day for trout.

[Moz]

That is an awesome pic. Looks like you were allowed to park on the road back then too.