Delaware Raritan Canal questions..... Need some advice please?

[KenBeam]

So I`ve been reading about this Delaware Raritan Canal and what kind of fish lurk there. But I know absolutely nothing about this waterway & was hoping you guys could get me started as I have never been there.

Things that I read claims there are Muskies & Pike in there. So that definitely piqued my interest. I`m sure more than a few of you out there can tell me a little bit about this & possibly where to throw the `Yak in.

Appreciate any insight that you guys share.

Thanks a lot,

Ken-

[crewchief2]

Sent you a PM

[CMJeepster]

I've caught the following fish in there: LMB, rock bass, chain pickerel, white crappie, redbreast sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, bluegill sunfish, brook trout, SMB

[NJ219bands]

Park closes at sunset. Sergeant Scott Seitz would like to give an $80 ticket to night fishermen in Plainsboro.

[KenBeam]

Ohhhhhhhh yea?............ Well ya never know........ the `ol Night Wrangler might just show up in the dark buddy-boy! HaHa!

[Bruce Litton]

I know the state was stocking muskies...haven't been up on this in awhile. Muskies used to get into the canal at Bull's Island from the Delaware. (Once a 30-incher went after my Cordell Redfin, 1977.) Ditto walleye (and SMB), and apparently every lock has a few walleye hanging around, maybe fewer than that overall. Since the 1980's, when the canal got drained and dredged, fishing has never been as good as it was, in my opinion. It's mostly pickerel and largemouths, but I can't think off-hand where to launch...maybe that park in South Bound Brook.