Congratulations to top overall fisherfolk Morgan Moska and Dylan Dominguez, best of girls and boys, respectively, at the 27th Annual Kids’ Fishing Contest, held Saturday, April 27 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Pascack Brook, sparkled. Children 4–16 fished the brook between St. John R.C. Church in Hillsdale and Brookside Place in Westwood, coming up with their share of wriggly glory.
Competing for trophies, prizes and other awards, kids and their bigger fishing buddies had their trout caught that day measured and recorded at the police booth in Hillsdale during contest hours.
Children had also helped stock the brook with fish.
Westwood Elks Lodge #1562 served hamburgers, hot dogs, and soda at the popular event.
Donations swam their way to Friends of the Pascack Brook, P.O. Box 84, Hillsdale, N.J. 07642.
According to Pascack Press freelance photographer Danielle O’Brien, “It was a cold and windy day but everyone seemed to have a great time. Very cute.”
At press time there was no word on attendance though it appeared to match last year’s numbers of approximately 250 attending and 150 participating.
Pascack Brook is a tributary of the Hackensack River and helps define the Pascack Valley. The brook is dammed to form Woodcliff Lake Reservoir in Woodcliff Lake. The brook used to flow into the Hackensack River but now ends at the Oradell Reservoir, short of its historical juncture with the Hackensack.
According to a book on the Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley, at least one late 18th-century map calls the brook “Great Pascack River.” Its tributary Musquapsink Brook is shown as “Little Pascack River.”
Namesake Pascack Brook County Park is on Emerson Road in Westwood approximately a mile east of the Westwood train station and half a mile upstream from the mouth of Pascack Brook.
