Raritan river 9 mile FLOAT trip 3/27/19:

[AndyS]

They say all things are for love or for learning, today I guess was for learning. The1 and I finally got a float trip in. Original plan was to float the upper part of the river in November and put a hurtin' on the hold over trout, but it never stopped raining. So 4 months later we decided to float and see what was what. The thought of a MEGA float trip did cross our minds putting in way up at Raritan Borough and floating down to Piscataway, but launching into closed water due to stocking kind of threw us off. That and fishing hasn't been all that great up that way anyway and some of the better reports were coming from the lower end of the river. We put in on the Muddystone in Manville and floated to Landing Lane in Piscataway, about 9 miles. Portage at the fish ladder falls was okay, no big deal.
I threw the Clown Yo-Zuri in the deeper runs and marabou jigs in the shallow faster runs. The1 mixed it up with various jigs and lures, nothing caught unfortunately.
We flew down the river at 1000 CFS, 6 1/2 hours total time. Water temperature was 42* and gin clear.
Think it was my 1st time floating in March and this was my first float trip since I quit smoking in October, so it's all good.
(p.s. Had a good number of bugs coming off the water all the way to Piscataway)