Merill creek new hours??

[Mikey topaz]

Heard through the grapevine merill will be changing hours of operation. 7 am gates open off the water before 4. I heard this from a good source and is being voted on and put in effect come April 1st if passed…. Anyone hear the same?

[AndyS]

I wouldn't doubt it. The line getting in will be past the gate at 7am on the weekends.

[Jigman13]

That's god awful... that's manasquan reservoir hours...

[Hookmanski]

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me......

[FASTEDDIE29]

That is ridiculous. Definitely a huge turn off to the guys that wake up early and get after it.

[NJSquatch]

Wow. That is terrible.

[Chrisper4694]

Wtf is this??? They've had the 4pm sign up never changed it since 4:30 sunset so I've just ignored it nobody said anything so far.... who's voting on this? We need to stop this bs. State stocked and now closed to fishing during peak fishing times? Hell no we need info on this fast!

[XXlyakattacker]

Is there ant way we could influence this vote? Going to be tough runing a tourney there when they wont let you in for the first hour and the lake is only open 9 hrs.

[AndyS]

It's owned by the power company, not the State.

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by AndyS

It's owned by the power company, not the State.

doesn't matter.... they "own" this nature preserve only based on whatever deal they have with the state. I don't know all the details but this deal includes public access and state stocking of fish for angling at the very least. closing the park permanently that early is unacceptable. it would eliminate some of the best times to fish and hike etc. we are already restricted enough and we won't take this sitting down.

there is no mention of this on their website which means they do not want anyone to know about it and that means it can be stopped if we fire up enough people; which is exactly what we are going to do. working on getting the details now and alerting people.