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| Hey guys Just thought I would share this with you all. We had very high waters here in NJ a few weeks back and several fish muskies, walleye and other species went over the dam at one of our prime lakes. These fish were stuck now in the river with no way to get back to the lake. People were reported to be snagging fish and all other sorts of horrible things. Conservation Officers patrolled the area till the state Fish and Game could organize a fish rescue with our local Muskies Inc chapter 22 which sent volunteers. Today all together we got 234 walleyes and 6 muskies, not bad for a few hours of fishing! Seriously they electro-shocked an netted the fish and we relocated them back into the lake away from the dam now that the high waters have receded. Check out the pics on our photobucket page, sorry they are not organized better but you can get a feel for the whole operation if wou flip through them. The muskies were about 36-42" range some nice. The walleyes were 12-28+" fish and some real sows in there living fat on the freshly stocked trout no doubt. This is Greenwood Lake and the Wanaque River, we did similar operations back in 07' and '05. We also had a local paper's video-grapher on hand and I will post links to his video when it is completed and posted. Thanks KevinJ http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg100/muskiesinc22/FISH%20RESCUE... Edited by kevinj 4/16/2010 4:00 PM Attachments ----------------  dam shock.bmp (225KB - 179 downloads) wallies.bmp (225KB - 168 downloads) muskie.bmp (225KB - 162 downloads) muskie.bmp (225KB - 150 downloads) going home.bmp (225KB - 165 downloads) | |||
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Posts: 223 Location: Minn. | Good job gentlemen!  | ||
| iowamusky |
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It looks like your fish & game commision is very helpful and pro active. We have that problem in almost all our lakes in Iowa and the dnr will not help us. although they did give us the ok to transport them back into one lake a few years ago. A group of us caught around 35 in two days and put them back. There were several left but i believe most of them have been killed illegally or post mortality. It was sickening the way people handled them.  | |||
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