Raritan river 5/16/21: I'm back in New Jersey you whack jobs !!!:

[AndyS]

Me and the old lady split after 29 years, our ideals changed (cue the Odd Couple theme song music) There was nothing in the Raleigh-Durham area anyway, and when I say nothing, I mean nothing.
I feel like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty except I didn't get my head blown off, nor did I try to have sex with a 17 year old, but everything else, yes.
So far in 2 days I had toast, it was awesome and not soggy, had someone pump my gas for me and got a buttered roll and kawfee for Wawa ( not wearing a mask of course) Looking forward to Chinese food and pizza again also.
I'm staying at my sisters down here by Seaside Heights, looking for work, and a place to live.

Here is the list to date:
Newark
Middlesex
Reading Pa.
Kearny
Bridgewater
Bridgewater (Finderne)
Cherry Hill
San Diego Cal. (ship)
Long Beach Cal. (ship)
Linden
Rahway
Flanders
Ridgefield Park
Succasunna
Bound Brook
Parsippany
Middlesex
Apex NC
Fuquay-Varina NC
Toms River

I guess there is way too much Yankee blood in me to live below the Mason-Dixon line

Oh yeah, the fishing report. Bounced around Duke Island Park, had a few hits during the prolific bug hatch. Moved down to Peters Brook Greenway and "Slayed 'em in Somerville" awesome stretch, saw 2 other anglers fishing Senkos for SMB. Went down to Manville and got a nice one, lost a few others and had lots of follows. All in all great weather and water glad to be back !

[ALS Mako]

Andy, sorry to hear about your split; but glad to have you back up in jersey. Just wasn't the same without you. Tight lines and good luck with everything.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Holy moly, there goes the neighborhood! Welcome back you maniac! Great report and life update! I’m glad your back........... I think!

[rwp2101]

Andy, it's great to have you back in Jersey! I certainly missed you on the board, and I knew you'd post a tire picture!

[bigfishy]

Welcome back.....nice feesh!!

[icebadger]

welcome back andy, sorry to hear that you and the mrs had to split but the rivers missed you and so did we.. Nice trout and of course tire photos but only one tire usually there is a pile of them that you pulled out. do you still have the red canoe?

[Jerzguy2]

Sorry to hear of split after 29 years, that's crazy. Your photos show that that part of the Raritan needs to be revisited by the Biologist. The Raritan is obviously an over look resource. It's much healthier and not the contaminated waters of 40+ years ago. There are quite a few miles of quality water that is overlooked and of better quality than some of the cesspools they throw trout in.

[thmyorke1]

welcome back already catching fish!

[Capt. Lou]

Welcome back to NJ , Andy sorry about circumstances !

[Mikey topaz]

We all knew you would be back!!