Freshwater Fisheries Forum January 19:

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I am not sure you NJ guys realize the kind of fresh water fishery you guys have.. A testament to just how good the NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife is... I see the pictures here every day.. Then I look at the pictures from the NY state sites, and you guys do better in a LOT of cases.. We have the water, and yes we have big trout and salmon in the great lakes and fingers, but thats all trolling with big boats.. Yes we have the big inland waters that you guys don't have but ALL the money spent here, goes into the tourist zones... Great lakes first, Finger Lakes and Catskills... A LOT of the waters in this state are neglected, because it not in a money zone.

We have no hybrid stripers, they were stocked for a while did ok, but they stopped..

walleyes, are seldom stocked, and you might be surprised at how few lakes here have them in fishable numbers.. They are more of a river fish here, except for lake erie, again a big water big boat trolling deal

crappie are tough to find as well, again except for a few select waters, and nowhere in NY do we have a Pike fishery as dependable as the Passaic River.. Yes, they are here, and we get some nice ones, but thats more a north country fishery in selct places, not state wide.. The NY DEC doesn't stock them, they want them dead so they don't eat the trout..

Channel cats.. yes we have them in the rivers, but not in small lakes the way NJ does..

Yeah we have the water, we have the habitat, but I'll tell you what, NJ has the - Its management light years ahead of ours, unless you are a Great Lakes trout/salmon guy.... You guys in NJ have really good fishing for the limited water available... The pictures I see every day don't lie... bob