New Jersey Kayaking

Pickerel & Eel

juvenile

Chain Pickerel

This fish is prone to over-populate whatever waters it is in, with the result that few get very big, instead, there are large numbers of small ones. They actually do pretty well in an aquarium, as long as you provide them with a steady supply of live minnows. They are not aggressive towards anything they cannot swallow.

what it looks like from the boat

-- Wikipedia

American Eel

Eels are typically only seen at night. Pencil-sized young are common. Yearlings that have just come in from the sea are 3-4 inches. After many years in freshwater, these eels go back out to sea to spawn, and then die. Eels are extremely slimy, you don't want to handle one.

-- Wikipedia

Fishes, Wildlife,

Rahway River

Rahway River
( 40.68294, -74.33542 )

  1. Orange Reservoir - Rahway River ( 40.75964, -74.28903 )
  2. Rahway River - Clark ( 40.62884, -74.29746 )
  3. Rahway River - Cranford (N) ( 40.66036, -74.30627 )
  4. Rahway River - Cranford (S) ( 40.65097, -74.30133 )
  5. Rahway River - Cranford (W) ( 40.65900, -74.30997 )
  6. Rahway River - Jackson's Pond ( 40.62805, -74.28492 )
  7. Rahway River - Lenape Park ( 40.67407, -74.31426 )
  8. Rahway River - Mohawk Park ( 40.64041, -74.29408 )
  9. Rahway River - Nomahegan Lake ( 40.66832, -74.31741 )
  10. Rahway River - Park ( 40.62040, -74.28944 )
  11. Rahway River - Rahway ( 40.59952, -74.26856 )
  12. Rahway River - South Branch (E) ( 40.60010, -74.27397 )
  13. Rahway River - South Branch (W) ( 40.57998, -74.30463 )
  14. Rahway River - South Mountain ( 40.73112, -74.30704 )
  15. Rahway River - Springfield ( 40.70824, -74.30186 )
  16. Robinson's Branch - Rahway River ( 40.61839, -74.30495 )

The Rahway River rises in Essex County as two separate branches. The West Branch begins at spring-fed Crystal Lake in West Orange and flows south through the South Mountain Reservation in the valley between first and second ridges of the Watchung Mountains. It runs directly through downtown Millburn. The East Branch rises as a surface stream in West Orange and forms part of the boundary between West Orange and Orange, then travels through the towns of South Orange and Maplewood.

The two branches meet at Hobart Gap near Interstate 78, continuing south through the Union County communities of Springfield, Union, Cranford and Clark. In Rahway the river receives the Robinson's Branch and South Branch, which are approximately 10 miles long. The South Branch starts in Roosevelt Park in Edison behind the Menlo Park Mall, and flows through Edison, Iselin, and Rahway. The river's mouth is at the Arthur Kill between Carteret (on the south) and Linden (on the north), opposite Port Mobil on Staten Island.

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