Garden State Trout

Saturday or Sunday for me, not sure which or where.

I always use a net, safest way to land and release Trout regardless of size, barbless hooks help also. I have a few of various sizes to fit the trout I'm after. I would like to resurrect my original small creek net, hence my netting post.

Twism86 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:45 pm

Most likely! If you are on Instagram look up Riversongnets. He builds his own custom nets so perhaps he could do just your netting. He does the clear “ghost” style rubber. So as long as a size exists he can install it.

Thank you. I'll reach out.

Happy New Year Gents. Does anyone know someone in North Jersey who could customize size and install a soft nylon netting for a small brookie net. I've had this net for nearly 30 years and need new netting installed. It's a small net and none of the available pre-made netting will fit, plus I don't w...

Congrats on the new rod and breaking the ice with it. I was out the day before, caught a few brookies and one brown, all on a wet fly.

Fishybig wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:37 am

Enjoy your holidays and be safe!!!

Same to you and everyone else on this forum.

We done.

Nothing wrong with a worm fly. Every stream has aquatic worms, and land based worms enter the stream after a rain.

Well done. All from the same stream?

martalus wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:45 pm

nice trout-wild or clubfish?

Nice trout regardless. The first pic looks to be wild. Last pic looks for sure wild. Second pic and Rainbow stocked fish. I assume somewhere on the SBR.

BillSmith wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:52 am

Takes a long time to get Federal $$$ Not sure how solar panels stop bird poop, but whatever. Those are some CHOICE 15 inch Land Locked Salmon reared and stocked by the Division though !

I believe they are trying to kill two birds with one stone. Cover the runs and lower operating costs.

Bringing this back up. The show is this Weekend.

Pike won't take you into the backing, no need to purchase high end, basically a spool filler. I use the least expensive Cabelas brand.

Pretty fish, thanks for sharing.

Nice catch for Jersey waters, well done. I'm staying off the WTS's until mid-Nov. Let the fish do their thing in peace. I'd be more worried about herons & mergansers making easy pickings of trout in shallow water than anglers fishing. One flock of 6-10 mergansers can kill more fish in a day than an...

Nice catch for Jersey waters, well done. I'm staying off the WTS's until mid-Nov. Let the fish do their thing in peace.
Stocked fish in the mean time, which has not been bad they put in some large healthy Rainbows.

Anyone been to this in the past? Thoughts, and are flies available for sale?

I fished it Friday, caught a few with nymphs. It's a shame how few wild fish swim that river. On paper it should be an excellent wild Brown Trout stream.

Did you catch them on top?

Yep Buttermilk Falls, thanks Brian.

Curious as I fish that stream occasionally and don't recall ever seeing the old bridge abutments. Where is this in relation to the falls.

Kudos to all involved.