Fishing near Pennington in Mercer County, NJ

3.19 Rating based on 11 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Catfish, Calico Bass(White Crappie), Sunfish, Channel Catfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 56
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 37
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D & R Canal near Pennington

D & R Canal

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Brown trout near Pennington

Brown trout

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Amwell Lake near Pennington

Amwell Lake

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Nj brown trout near Pennington

Nj brown trout

landed my first fish ever on barbie rod! Brown trout!
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Top Fishing Spots near Pennington

Delaware and Raritan Canal
Delaware and Raritan Canal

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Stony Brook
Stony Brook

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Amwell Lake
Amwell Lake

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 6784

Rock Brook
Rock Brook

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1688

Carnegie Lake
Carnegie Lake

Avg. Rating: 2
# Reviews: 1
Views: 12507

Lake Mercer
Lake Mercer

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Views: 3643

Pennington Area Fish Species

Recent Pennington Fishing Reports

Rock Brook  Fishing Report Apr 08, 2013

Rock Brook

Rock Brook -

Small rocky brook with many small pools to fish....

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Different Catch Fishing Report Apr 08, 2009

Different Catch

Van Sciver Lake -

Trip to Van Sciver Lake, Pennsylvania on Sunday from 2:15 to 5:30. Water temps 49 to 51 and did nothing on bass. Switched to ultralite tackle lookin...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Rancocas Creek  Fishing Report Nov 20, 2011

Rancocas Creek

Rancocas Creek, Wliingboro side -

Catfishing in the creek... same spot has resulted in some nice Channel Cats - 15-20 lb range... nightcrawlers. ...

Avg. Rating: 2
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South Branch Fishing Report Apr 08, 2013

South Branch

South Branch -

The South Branch section of the Raritan River...

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Weekend camping Fishing Report Mar 19, 2009

Weekend camping

Manor Lake, PA -

A weekend camping trip on Manor Lake, southeastern PA. September 2008 over 80 fish caught, bass & crappie and released....

Avg. Rating: 3
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assunpink Fishing Report Sep 10, 2012

assunpink

lake assunpink -

awesome spot to fish for bass pikerel...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Baits and Tackle used near Pennington

Check Prices

  • Minnow jig
  • Spinners
    Topwater lures
    Worms
    Corn
  • Bronze Spinner
  • nightcrawlers
  • White and silver spinner
  • cornmeal

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • either cubed mackeral,trout worms,nught crawlers

Minnow Check Prices

  • SHINERS

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Dropshot of a plastic fish jerkbait 3 inches

Crankbait Check Prices

  • I like Big O or little Big O in white, chrome or Chartruese
  • Big O in white or yellow
  • Craw fish thingy
  • craw fish thingy

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Minnow jig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dropshot Zoom flukes 2-3 inches for all sort of fish such as crappies, LMB and SMB

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Drifted, floated worms
  • Just hook up a night crawler and get fishing
  • Night crawler out did minnow's.

Worm Check Prices

  • Gulp Shakey Worm Night Crayler
  • Gulp Shakey Worm Night Crawler

Grub Check Prices

  • real slow

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • worms, plastic minnows, jigs

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 3 inch twister grub in white
  • trout mag

Other Check Prices

  • Earth Worms Threaded through spider wire
  • Berkley Catfish Bait

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