Fishing Information

The Knee Deep Club will hold its spring Lake Hopatcong Walleye Weekend on May 5 and 6, 2018. The contest will begin at 5:00 AM on Saturday, May 5, 2018 and will conclude at noon on Sunday May 6, 2018.

According to the official records from the Knee Deep Club (LDC), the following are the winners from this weekend’s Trout and Pickerel Contests.

There are plenty of trout here with the State having stocked twice already and are expected back again this week. In addition, the Knee-Deep Club stocked over the weekend, adding over a thousand more trout.

More than 184,000 freshly stocked rainbow trout will be available statewide, including more than 40 fishing spots across Morris County, as anglers cast their lines on the much-anticipated opening of trout season at 8 a.m. this Saturday, April 7.

On Sunday, April 22, 2018, the Knee Deep Club will hold its trout fishing contest on Lake Hopatcong. The contest will begin at 5:00 AM and conclude at 4:00 PM. 

Sunday April 22, 2018 the Knee Deep Club will hold a Pickerel contest on Lake Hopatcong. The contest will begin at 5:00 AM and conclude at 4:00 PM.

Lake Hopatcong conditions show a possible early end to ice-fishing on the lake as ice breaks and thickness falls to about 4 inches.

Due to Ice Conditions,  the Knee Deep Club third 2018 Ice Fishing contest on Sunday March 4, 2018 has been canceled. 

Dows Boat Rental reports the ice on Lake Hopatcong is still between 6 to 8 inches.

The Knee Deep Club will hold the second 2018 Ice Fishing contest on Sunday February 11, 2018. The contest will begin at 6 AM and conclude at 4PM.

The Knee Deep Club held their first Ice Fishing contest on Sunday January 21^st, under sunny skies and warm weather. The overall ice depth was between 8 and 10 inches, which was enough to support the contest safely.

As reported by Dow’s Boat Rental: The ice on average is still about 8 to 10 inches. Shorelines had opened some with the recent rain, but with the colder weather has frozen these areas again.  Be careful!