Catches
Recorded 7 catches here. Most commonly caught: Brown trout, Rainbow trout, Steelhead. Peak season: year-round.
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Raritan River (New Jersey) — a spot well known among anglers. About 49 km long. Nearby towns: New Brunswick and Elizabeth. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Cloudy: 70–84 °F
Recorded 7 catches here. Most commonly caught: Brown trout, Rainbow trout, Steelhead. Peak season: year-round.
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after.
Best time — 06:00–08:00 (dawn bite) and 19:00–21:00 (dusk bite).
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
The water's turning murky — go with bright, noisy lures: small jig or minnow bait.
It's a hot day — a hat, sunglasses, and plenty of water are a must. A thunderstorm is possible — bring a rain jacket, and pack up at the first rumble of thunder.
An average day — best chances during peak windows.
The computed water temperature is around 74 °F — inside the 57–75 °F comfort range for Black crappie, so baseline activity is high.
Black crappie works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 0.09 inHg over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
September is an active season for Black crappie here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like +88°
The day is 3 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Brown trout | 3 | 43% |
| Rainbow trout | 2 | 29% |
| Steelhead | 1 | 14% |
| Striped bass | 1 | 14% |
Measured river conditions are available for Raritan River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge Raritan River below Calco Dam at Bound Brook NJ, 0.2 mi away · measured 2026-09-02 18:15 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision
