Raritan River Walleye 9/3

[FASTEDDIE29]

Hit the river from 630-930 this am hoping some fish were holding in the high water. Casted the X-rap for a while and hooked a nice Walleye probably close to 5lbs, healthy fish, not too fat, not too skinny. He was somewhere around 23-24 inches. Kept casting and hooked up again with Striper around 12 inches, feisty little guy! Kept casting and casting and hooked another Walleye around 9 am, this fish was bigger than the first. Absolutely crushed the X-rap! Im walking the fish down the wall to the rocks where it would be easy to land, ahhhhh this fish is barely hooked and pops off as soon as I get a hand on him. DAMN, the fish was close to 7 lbs and probably 26 inches or so. Oh well, quick release is a good thing but I really wanted a picture of this fish. At least I got to touch this beautiful RARITAN RIVER WALLEYE!!! TIGHT LINEZ!!!!

[Worksforjerks]

Killer!

Always a good report and pix from you Eddie!!!

[JimmyMas]

Nice Catch! We fished in an area within 1 mile of where you're at Saturday night and caught one at 30 inches. Beast! New Brunswick must be holding those Stripers until it floods then they run up to feed there.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Thanx fellas! Thanx BASSMASTER MITCH!!!!! JimmyMas, you should post a pic of that 30. So much fun catching all these fish in the mighty RR. What did you get em on??????

[Matt D]

Great report and great pics!! Gotta love the Raritan!

[Skunk City]

Gorgeous 'Eye buddy. Tell the next one to migrate up to the Big P to make some babies with the ones up here .

[FASTEDDIE29]

Originally Posted by Skunk City

Gorgeous 'Eye buddy. Tell the next one to migrate up to the Big P to make some babies with the ones up here .

Passaic and Raritan are 2 good rivers that can hold some eyes. It would be nice if the state could stick a little in both rivers. Some really nice holes in the upper Passaic! Two brides and that Elmwood Park stretch look like ideal WALLEYE WATER in my opinion. Dark deep water with plenty of shade!!!

[Tightlines74]

Originally Posted by FASTEDDIE29

Hit the river from 630-930 this am hoping some fish were holding in the high water. Casted the X-rap for a while and hooked a nice Walleye probably close to 5lbs, healthy fish, not too fat, not too skinny. He was somewhere around 23-24 inches. Kept casting and hooked up again with Striper around 12 inches, feisty little guy! Kept casting and casting and hooked another Walleye around 9 am, this fish was bigger than the first. Absolutely crushed the X-rap! Im walking the fish down the wall to the rocks where it would be easy to land, ahhhhh this fish is barely hooked and pops off as soon as I get a hand on him. DAMN, the fish was close to 7 lbs and probably 26 inches or so. Oh well, quick release is a good thing but I really wanted a picture of this fish. At least I got to touch this beautiful RARITAN RIVER WALLEYE!!! TIGHT LINEZ!!!!

Compliments, those are beautiful fish! I hit that spot a few weeks ago with my 13 year old son who wants to catch more variety of fish besides LMB and trout, looking at the pic it's no wonder why we didn't catch anything and each donated a lure to the river, it was too low when we went. Looking forward to finding some other honey holes on the mighty Raritan

[GetANet]

The time to fish it is after it rains and the water levels rise. Usually pretty good for a few days afterwards till the water drops to normal levels again.