SHUCKER's RARITAN RIVER WALLEYE 3/10

[AndyS]

Great stuff ! I can't thank the guys enough for posting the fish photos and locations on the Raritan river. New light has been shed on this river now and it can only get better, heck, you guys made New Jersey Fish and Game sit up and take notice. Remember FE and I went to the Fish and Game Council meeting to talk about the Raritan river and what a great fishery it is. Standing on that wall you are fishing 1/2 of 1% of that river. I remember seeing that river flow a different color for each day of the week, now look at it. Hope it continues to grow in popularity as I will be buy a drift boat and take people down the river, there is already a charter buisness on the South Branch of the Raritan river. Looking forward to doing more work with the folks from Rutgers this spring and doing more clean up work on the river to boot !

The Lawrence Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River in New Jersey, is impounded currently by multiple dams, preventing upstream passage for fish. Following an educational presentation about the serious depletion of herring and other Atlantic fish the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership applied to the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program (NY-NJ HEP) and was awarded a grant of $47,000 for a partial feasibility study for fish ladders around the lowest two dams on the Lawrence Brook, the Westons Mill Dam and the Westons Arch Dam.

I also contacted the US Fish and Wildlife Service to question why the Island Farm Fish Weir has only 11 inch slots and there are big fish that can not use the passage. Maybe some day soon that waterfall will be gone, they built a fish ladder for a 4 foot high dam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3WYYxweA4