October 12, 2026 - 10:35:14
We started off our northern report with a call to Joe over at Fairfield Fishing Tackle who told us the Passaic River has finally started to lose some water and fishing has been very good with smallies, northerns, perch and catfish supplying the bulk of the fishing. With rain predicted for Sunday and Monday this could change. He also mentioned good fishing in Lake Musconetcong, Round Valley and Merrill Creek and said hopefully the waters will be in good shape for this week’s trout stocking.
October 12, 2026 - 10:34:57
The news on this past week’s bass fishing kept coming in when we spoke to Joe over at Fairfield Fishing Tackle. He too said he got good reports on this past week’s fishing early in the week but slower reports later in the week. Joe told me some of the best fishing as in the back waters of the bay and it looks like most of these fish were local fish, The one good thing this past week was that some bigger bunker started to show up on Wednesday While they were not big adult bunker they were a foot long or better. He to said the bottom fishing for sea bass was hit or miss with some porgies, triggers and ling mixed in.
October 05, 2026 - 10:47:29
When we spoke with Joe over at Fairfield Fishing Tackle he said the Passaic River was still running high but was slowly returning to normal. He said the only report he got this past week were from the upper Passaic River where smallies, perch, northerns, largemouth and catfish were providing some good catches if you knew how to fish high water. Lastly he said most of the big reservoirs got a good dose of fresh water from the rains, but so far very few anglers had been fishing them since the storm.
October 05, 2026 - 10:47:12
“The storm was more of an inconvenience than a problem,” said Joe over at Fairfield Fishing Tackle. Of course we were a lot more inland and out of the way of the worst part of the storm. One thing is for sure the beaches along the coast sure lost a lot of sand. When it comes to the fishing it looks like the storm really got the striped bass fishing going. “We had a decent amount of anglers stopped in for striped bass tackle and they told us the fishing was on fire in some places,” said Joe, adding “By the end of the week the bottom fishing began to pick up as well.” Let’s hope this is the prelude to some good fishing the rest of the fall.
