The deep freeze has iced up Lake Hopatcong good and the Knee Deep Club's annual ice fishing contest is a go for this Sunday on the state's largest freshwater lake. It's been a couple years since the ...

There's ice on the Lake Hopatcong and the single-digit overnight temperatures forecast this week at the lake should help keep it there for a while. That would be quite a difference from last winter ...

Ice fishing contests used to be a rite of winter on Lake Hopatcong. Then New Jersey’s winters started getting warmer. The Knee Deep Club scheduled nine ice fishing contests in 2022, 2023 and 2024. All ...

Check your weather reports for several days before and if the story written for the Lake Hopatcong area is good, you may want to try some “hardwater” fishing. By the way, when I say “good,” it’s all ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. - On frozen Lake Hopatcong, a father and son plumb the waters for perch and pickerel. For 30 years, they've been casting lines in streams tucked amid New Jersey's busy highways.

Lake Hopatcong's reputation for great fishing continues. The state's biggest lake has variety and quality fishing, from 49-inch muskellunge to the abundant big hybrid bass, walleyes, largemouth and ...