From the Daily Record, by Jim Stabile:
This year Runelvy Rodriguez broke
Goodbye to rainy 2018, welcome to 2019, hope the weather will return to normal.
Even non-hunters have noticed the lack of deer road kills on our roads, thanks to the deer seasons that started in September.
Freshwater anglers have taken advantage of the good trout fishing in the streams when they're flooded, thanks to the holdover rainbows stocked in November.
This year Runelvy Rodriguez broke
the
state's landlocked salmon record.
(photo
by Division F&W)
Goodbye to rainy 2018, welcome to 2019, hope the weather will return to normal.
This year, Runelvy Rodriquez of Northvale
broke the longstanding for landlocked salmon record salmon eclipsing the
previous state record set in 1951. She was trolling with a spoon on Lake
Aeroflex June 2.
The shad run in the Delaware River was a good
one, Peuest Trout Hatchery stocked more than 600,000 rainbows, and the
Hackesttstown Hatchery stocked over one million warmwater fish.
Lake trout and fat rainbows were caught in
Round Valley Reservoir, the state's most popular fishing reservoir. Some
good catches of hybrid stripers were made in Spruce Run Reservoir and Lake
Hopatcong, but fishing success was sporadic.
Hunters will be on the way to a good deer
season, when the last deer will be harvested in February. Bow season
began Sept. 8.
Hunters and
anglers will have a lot to do in the next month that begins on Tuesday.
That's when
winter bow and permit muzzleloader season for deer opens, then on Saturday, the
permit season for deer season starts.
Even non-hunters have noticed the lack of deer road kills on our roads, thanks to the deer seasons that started in September.
Freshwater anglers have taken advantage of the good trout fishing in the streams when they're flooded, thanks to the holdover rainbows stocked in November.
Round Valley
Reservoir rainbows are being caught from the shore, and muskies were caught
with shiners at Oxford Furnace Lake in Warren County.
Last weekend's rains and on Friday raised the water level of Lake Hopatcong. It was noticeable in Landing and Woodport last week. January is a great ice fishing month when the weather cooperates.
The Knee Deep Club has scheduled ice fishing contests on Lake Hopatcong. By the middle of the last January the lake was was measured eight to 10 inches. Hardwater anglers hope for a good ice fishing season in the next two months..
The 36th annual Garden State Outdoor Sports Show opens for four days at the Raritan Expo Center in Edison on Jan. 10 with noted professional anglers who will entertain and inform of what they do to catch fish.
Calendar
Tuesday: Winter bow and permit muzzleloader season for deer opens
Wednesday: Lincoln Park Archers Winter Archery League, 80 Jacksonville Road, Towaco, members and nonmembers; shooting will start at 7:30 p .m.; shooters will have a choice of Wednesday or Thursday nights.
Saturday: Permit shotgun season for deer starts
Jan. 8: Cole Baldino, TU manager for the Home Rivers Initiative, guest speaker for the Central Jersey TU Chapter, topic be "Bigger Wild Fish and Healthier Watersheds," 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Dunellen .
Jan. 10: Last day of the duck season in the North Zone
Jan. 10: Annual Fly Tying meeting of the Hacklebarney TU with members and guest fly-tyers, 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall Post 155 Whippany on Legion Road, downstairs; website is http://www.hacklebarneytu.org
Jan. 10: Garden State Outdoor Sports Show opens at the Raritan Expo Center in Edison
Jan. 20: Knee Deep Club ice fishing contest at Lake Hopatcong
Jan. 21: Canada geese season opens in special winter zones
Last weekend's rains and on Friday raised the water level of Lake Hopatcong. It was noticeable in Landing and Woodport last week. January is a great ice fishing month when the weather cooperates.
The Knee Deep Club has scheduled ice fishing contests on Lake Hopatcong. By the middle of the last January the lake was was measured eight to 10 inches. Hardwater anglers hope for a good ice fishing season in the next two months..
The 36th annual Garden State Outdoor Sports Show opens for four days at the Raritan Expo Center in Edison on Jan. 10 with noted professional anglers who will entertain and inform of what they do to catch fish.
Calendar
Tuesday: Winter bow and permit muzzleloader season for deer opens
Wednesday: Lincoln Park Archers Winter Archery League, 80 Jacksonville Road, Towaco, members and nonmembers; shooting will start at 7:30 p .m.; shooters will have a choice of Wednesday or Thursday nights.
Saturday: Permit shotgun season for deer starts
Jan. 8: Cole Baldino, TU manager for the Home Rivers Initiative, guest speaker for the Central Jersey TU Chapter, topic be "Bigger Wild Fish and Healthier Watersheds," 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Dunellen .
Jan. 10: Last day of the duck season in the North Zone
Jan. 10: Annual Fly Tying meeting of the Hacklebarney TU with members and guest fly-tyers, 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall Post 155 Whippany on Legion Road, downstairs; website is http://www.hacklebarneytu.org
Jan. 10: Garden State Outdoor Sports Show opens at the Raritan Expo Center in Edison
Jan. 20: Knee Deep Club ice fishing contest at Lake Hopatcong
Jan. 21: Canada geese season opens in special winter zones
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