New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 25 - DIVISION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE RULES
Subchapter 6 - 2022-2025 FISH CODE
Section 7:25-6.20 - Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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2. Angling may be done with three rods each with one line or two lines or one of each. Not more than three single hooks or three burrs of three hooks each may be used per line.

3. Ice fishing shall be legal whenever ice is present. Open (unfrozen) water creel and size limits shall apply. The maximum size of the ice hole shall not exceed 10 inches in diameter. Five tip-ups or any combination of five devices that will include tip-ups of not more than two rods and lines or two hand lines or one of each may be used.

4. Spears (not mechanically propelled), longbows, and recurved, compound, or crossbows may be used to take shad, carp, suckers, catfish, and snakeheads by properly licensed fishermen, except within 50 rods (825 feet) of an eel weir. All arrows must have line attached. Crossbows shall have a stock length of 25 inches, a minimum draw pull weight of 75 pounds, and a working safety. Crossbows must be hand held and may not be permanently mounted. Crossbows must be uncocked in transport and while not actively engaged in fishing.

5. Bait fish may be taken and possessed for personal uses only but not to exceed 50 per day. The minimum length for American Eel shall be nine-inches with a daily creel and possession limit of 25.

6. Eel weirs for the catching of carp, catfish, eels, and suckers only, may be operated under permit from the Division of Fish and Wildlife, for the purposes of sale, at any time of the year and at any time of day.

7. Hook and line fishermen are hereby restricted to the use of non-offset circle hooks while fishing with any natural bait during the months of April and May downstream of the Calhoun Street Bridge to the Commodore Barry Bridge. This restriction shall apply only to hooks of size 2 and larger and shall not apply to hooks of smaller sizes (such as those normally used for white perch fishing).