Lamington 7/6/14:

[AndyS]

Didn't float the North Branch as I wanted to today because I had a hard time finding shuttle as just about everyone I know was out of town for the day.
Instead I went around and did some scouting for a possible river clean up. The folks over at CJST had made mention of getting in on the Lamington and North Branch this summer and I sure hope we can pull it off. 2 more big clean ups are already on the books for this summer on the South Branch.
I got in the water near Burnt Mills Rd on the Lamington and walked up a bit and got 2 really nice smallmouth, what I also found was a tire (that I put in my truck) and a big section of some sort of hose that was too big for me to move, something you would pump out your basement with. Just down from me below the bridge were 2 fly fishermen.
So it is all good, so much is being cleaned up and taken out of the rivers but I would really like to see more fishermen getting involved. You can help by submitting donations or coming out on a river clean up day. There are land based clean up crews as well as water crews. Our last clean up I don't think I saw any fishermen helping and we are the ones who are going to benefit the most from this. If interested you can always contact me or anyone of the Central Jersey Stream Team members. Also when you are out and about and see something you don't like, say something, just about every spit of water in New Jersey has some environmental group attached to it, weather it be a watershed group or a river ambassador, let them know. I've met a bunch of really great people on these clean ups and found a bunch of great water I never even knew about.

[Mike M]

Originally Posted by AndyS

Didn't float the North Branch as I wanted to today because I had a hard time finding shuttle as just about everyone I know was out of town for the day.
Instead I went around and did some scouting for a possible river clean up. The folks over at CJST had made mention of getting in on the Lamington and North Branch this summer and I sure hope we can pull it off. 2 more big clean ups are already on the books for this summer on the South Branch.
I got in the water near Burnt Mills Rd on the Lamington and walked up a bit and got 2 really nice smallmouth, what I also found was a tire (that I put in my truck) and a big section of some sort of hose that was too big for me to move, something you would pump out your basement with. Just down from me below the bridge were 2 fly fishermen.
So it is all good, so much is being cleaned up and taken out of the rivers but I would really like to see more fishermen getting involved. You can help by submitting donations or coming out on a river clean up day. There are land based clean up crews as well as water crews. Our last clean up I don't think I saw any fishermen helping and we are the ones who are going to benefit the most from this. If interested you can always contact me or anyone of the Central Jersey Stream Team members. Also when you are out and about and see something you don't like, say something, just about every spit of water in New Jersey has some environmental group attached to it, weather it be a watershed group or a river ambassador, let them know. I've met a bunch of really great people on these clean ups and found a bunch of great water I never even knew about.

Andy, if you ever need somebody to shuttle you contact me. I could have done it today.

[RJHooker]

Sounds like a good day!

Thanks for the clean up. The efforts of many of our members in keeping our waters clean restores a lot of my faith in humanity lol!

[bigfishy]

Good report captain!!!
That river will be the next to have an exclusive, private section that'll
cost you a small fortune to fish....Still burnin bout that private section on the sb , that was my fav stretch on the whole river

[AndyS]

Still amazed at the amount of private sections on New Jersey's rivers, not just the South Branch. There are already private sections on the Lamington.

[Dave B.]

Nice to know the smallies are still doing well in there. I haven't fished that particular area for about 30 years but it used to be loaded with smallies from the middle/lower Lam right on down through the lower NBR.

Should you get a cleanup scheduled for the Lam Andy you may want to keep tabs on this guage... http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv...65,00060,62614 They've been releasing water from RVR almost non-stop so far this summer. In fact you happened to hit the Lam during one of the few brief non-release periods, else the water would've been about 8 inches higher. That aside, the higher and cooler flows ought to help the fish and fishing!

Thanks again for your continued efforts to clean up our waters!

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by bigfishy

Good report captain!!!
That river will be the next to have an exclusive, private section that'll
cost you a small fortune to fish....Still burnin bout that private section on the sb , that was my fav stretch on the whole river

The spot below the gorge right above solitude?

[AndyS]

I think there are at least 4 private sections on the South Branch and the Musky has private sections also, as well as the Lamington and Black River.

[bigfishy]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

The spot below the gorge right above solitude?

No, starting at riverstix on down to vernoy bridge....

Andy I was more er less referring to, private for profit...I/e guiding services...
Not really referring to clubs