Whippany River Fishing Spot
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The best places to find fish in the Whippany River are in the deep pools. Best bet is to wander upstream and fish the pools and swift water. Nearly anywhere a road crosses the Whippany River is good for fishing. Look for paths which follow the river and fish in the deeper sections. That's where the trout are. To the west, the Whippant river becomes Speedwell Lake, which is also stocked with trout. At the base of Speedwell Lake is a dam where the Whippany River continues. This is another fine area for fishing.
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Whippany River Description
If ever there was a river that expresses New Jerseyans' attitude toward their state's natural resources, the Whippany River is it. The Whippany rises in privacy in Mendham Township, and ends in obscurity amid a maze of highways in the Meadows of East Hanover, Hanover, and Parsippany, at the confluence of the Passaic, Rockaway, and Whippany Rivers. On the way, it provides us with some pretty views and some good fishing. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the Whippany River (or, for that matter, any river in New Jersey) is not that it's abused, but that it continues to live. Consider fish. "Oh, we have fish," Ella Fillipone says. "All kinds of fish!" Trout, the Whippany certainly has. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection stocks the Whippany at several locations. The best sites, reportedly, are just below the dams at Sunrise Lake and Speedwell Lake, but the river's upper reaches are full of small rapids and quiet pools where trout gather. The Whippany River is stocked with approximately 1,500 trout annually.
40°49?16.31?N 74°25?55.11?W / 40.8211972°N 74.431975°W / 40.8211972; -74.431975 The Whippany River is a tributary of the Rockaway River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.