Fishing Log

Oh. BTW. As far as the roads go, this little roadblock ain't nothing compared to the changes when they make it a National Park. Enjoy what you can while you can!

Fished Sunday 12-4 Harmony area, landed 8 of 9, water temp 43 degrees , spoons on downriggers.

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I would expect it to be open all the way to Millbrook until construction actually begins. Check Worthington facebook page for details.

Aside from all the doubletalk is Old Mine Rd open from Rte 80 to the campgrounds?

MY WORST FREAKING NIGHTMARE! Why can't they allow access on Old Mine road concurrent to construction???? You will only be able to access Worthington from Rt 80, and POXONO Launch and that entire stretch from N Worthington to Millbrook village will be closed entire spring thorugh summer. NO ACESS FOR SHAD FISHERMAN!!! https://wrnjradio.com/delaware-water-gap-national-recreation-area-announces-11m-infrastructure-investment-to-overhaul-old-mine-rd-on-nj-side-of-park/ I guess the silver lining is next season will finally have nice roads through this stretch

Weather service already has us slated for another inch to an inch and a quarter of rain Wednesday through Friday next week. I hope the storm pattern changes soon.

Phil M....The spool was connected to an impatient hand on one end and a light leader on the other. I since learned that there have been a few large-ish stripers landed recently where I was fishing. --- Below Lambertville I caught fish last week with the Trenton gage reading just under 12'. The water clarity was excellent, though. We won't see that again for a few days,

Tocks Island forecast is saying cresting 14.7 feet late Thursday, dropping to 12' over weekend. i consider 9' to be about the limitations for fishing N of water gap, some may push a little beyond that mark... 6.5' is when river is at "normal" levels. And running low to mid 40's water temps... This weather is beyond depressing. NJ has been like living in Seattle past few years....

Put a fork in it river is coming up 10ft by Friday!

04/01; Mid Northampton area of the river; shore; single dart 1/4 oz +; 2 hrs; 11 landed of 15 hooked. Mix of roes and bucks.

Radar: it’s not too early. A lot of fish through Easton already.

Well, I've chased off the skunk. I fished mid-day on Friday below Lambertville and caught 2 very energetic bucks on darts. I tried again yesterday a little later in the day, same place, and didn't get so much as a bump. The water dropped nicely from one day to the next and the clarity was excellent. I might try tomorrow early PM if the rain doesn't muck things up too much.

The updated phone number for the shad hotline is 610-774-8116...the previous number is not correct...please pass this on

Fished hard for 5 hours caught one buck and one walleye from shore.it was high and a little dangerous where I was fishing. Will only get better.both fish caught on spoons.also chucked darts but no hits.

My brother lives in Fishtown….these are all around.

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We destroyed them today between the down pours and debris. Poor mans downriggers got it done. Nothing on darts. even mix of buck and roe!! water temp was 45degrees.

DW; The Portland facility is all posted now. Doesn't matter as the absence of warm water attracting the shad make it no longer worthwhile to fish there.

Um no…… pickerel are an indigenous species and haven’t “ suddenly populated the area “. If you want to harvest them feel free, but they have just as much right to the river as shad. Your grandfather had the wrong idea. Getting back to fishing reports, significant numbers of fish are being caught mid river

I know we had a pond that had no pickerel in it.it was a paradise of large crappie yellow perch and bass.we never caught a pickerel and I caught one and threw it back.my grandfather told me I should of killed it .soon we caught lots of pickerel and less of everything else.we have been eradicating them but it seems once they become established your screwed.im sure they eat tons of shad fry but if they r already established there it will be hard to eradicate them.we have been killing them by the bucket full and it seems to make no difference so now we just throw them back.it seems we have less of everything since we did this but the perch crappie pickerel and bass we do have are bigger so they must also eat their own.

Been fishing a certain area on the Big D. for many years. Have caught everything that swims the river, including brook trout. It is a known shad spawning area. I have seen it designated as a shad area on old maps that are from the 1960's, and have had thousands of shad fry swimming around my waders in June. It's simply great habitat. Only once in a while through the years does anyone catch a pickerel in the area. Last fall I fished there (2.5 hrs.) and caught three very large pickerel, but nothing else. I fished there a week or 10 days ago (3.0 hrs.) when the water hit 44 degrees for a day and was up 3.5. feet over normal flow. Again, I caught 2 very large pickerel and also a smallmouth. I released all of them, as I always do. If you fished an area that produced all these varieties of species and was a known shad spawning area, do you think you should harvest these pickerel, which have suddenly populated the area?

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First St. Johns Florida shad reported 12/23. Identified as a Hickory by Bill Gordon.