Passaic River

[tycomps]

hey all,

been fishing the river in new providence for 40 years now and just heard about the pike. trying to place that dam/falls in chatham, is it down from
the little park on river road next to the old railroad overpass? any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

[catfishonthelake]

You're quite welcome man. Thank you for tuning in.

[AndyS]

Welcome to the site tycomps !! What have you been catching in that area, just asking, thanx.

[tycomps]

nevermind, I found it. here's how, I went to zillow dot com and entered an address in new providence. this gave me the overhead image picture and I
moused down to where the river was. I zoomed full and followed the river along until I saw the falls where I had thought they were. I'm going to use this method to find access points as well and keep track of which spots are most productive. more to come......

[tycomps]

Carp, cats, trout, bass and a 25lb snapper that wouldn't let go of a small catfish I had hooked at Oakwood Park. Many nights spent drinking beer with friends next to a fire and catching big carp on corn with the rod in a y stick.
After a while you forgot to pay attention to your rod and quite a few flew off the banks into the river, the good old days!

[FASTEDDIE29]

I was at Stanley park on River rd a week ago and witnessed 2 large pike jumping the falls and heading up river!!!

[tycomps]

Pike stocking stats-
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/2...cking_np11.pdf
anybody know where they were put?

[danyeo]

Originally Posted by mondofish

I only began fishing the Passaic a couple of years ago. The main areas I fish are the Two Bridges area and under Rt.80 off Fairfield Rd. I've also fished the Little Falls area. I've done well in the spring and summer in the above mentioned places. I've caught pike, largemouth, smallmouth, and perch. I've done exceptionally well with the smallies at Two Bridges, mostly rapalas for them. I have tried to fish other areas of the Passaic like in Garfield but just find myself driving in circles trying to find access but from reports I've read the pike fishery in this area is great. I for one am glad to see the river so lively.

I was driving past Garfield the other day and I saw 2 guys below the Falls fishing. I took a walk over and noticed that once that construction is finished that there will be a walkway that goes right down to the water right below the falls, I'm not sure if that has been open in the. Hopefully there will be access to the river from there when it's opened.

And since I had time to kill I parked on a side road a little North of the falls and crossed the road to get under a bridge. It was a real pain because the road was extremely busy. Fished for 30 minutes but nothing was biting, BUT, I saw some HUGE fish breaking the surface of the water. I mean HUGE. Not sure if they were Carp or Pike.

[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by danyeo

I was driving past Garfield the other day and I saw 2 guys below the Falls fishing. I took a walk over and noticed that once that construction is finished that there will be a walkway that goes right down to the water right below the falls, I'm not sure if that has been open in the. Hopefully there will be access to the river from there when it's opened.

And since I had time to kill I parked on a side road a little North of the falls and crossed the road to get under a bridge. It was a real pain because the road was extremely busy. Fished for 30 minutes but nothing was biting, BUT, I saw some HUGE fish breaking the surface of the water. I mean HUGE. Not sure if they were Carp or Pike.

I fish that area regularly, in fact, that may have been my buddy and I out there. The construction has definetly made accessing there a bit more difficult. Above the falls over there is carp city. I roll through there in my kayak and regularly end up spooking "schools" of big carp. I've never really targeted them, but landed one a few weeks ago while pike fishing.

[tycomps]

stopped at the dam at stanley park today and fished with this guy-

he didn't catch anything either.