Garden State Trout

I took 15 years to fish it. But it finally happened today. started off bad this am. My net unleashes & floats down river. Then my lures get snagged twice. But then then beauty comes chomps on my lure :o . safely released to fight another day. started to fish down river. Then I seen my net. recovered...

46er wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 22, 2025 6:54 am

Plans are in the works to build a shopping center and homes on that property, one of them a Bass Pro Shop.

https://riverton.com/

WOW !!!!!!!

Hope they catch a all the poachers !!!!

cappy wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:04 am

Random question. Is a picture of the front and back of a license on one's phone legal?

I dont know about NJ. But I did this in PA. the wardens there accepted it with no issues. PA also has a bar code so they can scan if they want

mtman wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:08 pm

I agree with not fishing in the heat of the summer, but the fish I expect to catch this time of the year have only been in the river since the fall . And most years I do really well up through Hackettstown.

the drought has effected the trout fishing in the upper sections of the musky imo.

Rockafellow dam on lower SBR? yes Thought I recognized it. I did the budgeting for removal for USFWS and the watershed org several years ago as they were getting Superfund settlement monies for the removal at the time. I do know there was a land preservation that happened first and now the dam can ...

I tried the Musky in Hackettstown yesterday. No fish for me ,but the only other guy I saw had one on a stringer. Fished for about an hour and the wind never really stopped so I left. The highlight of the day was being checked by a CO in the parking lot. Real nice younger guy and we talked for about...

I tried the Musky in Hackettstown yesterday. No fish for me ,but the only other guy I saw had one on a stringer. Fished for about an hour and the wind never really stopped so I left. The highlight of the day was being checked by a CO in the parking lot. Real nice younger guy and we talked for about...

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:23 pm

Troutman wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 05, 2025 2:02 pm

https://imgur.com/a/HC5MuYU
The next to go down. proposals are now being drawn up. fish it while you can. while be a distant memory soon

Rockafellow dam on lower SBR?

yes

https://imgur.com/a/HC5MuYU
The next to go down. proposals are now being drawn up. fish it while you can. while be a distant memory soon

Wow! Are we going back to restrictions. Maybe they are trying to contain it not realizing that birds fly. We could always stay six feet away from the geese, but I don't think the geese will do the same. Im also thinking water mite be contaminated from the feces also. Im more focused on the rivers. ...

https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2025/02/dea ... s-say.html

will this also effect rivers ? the state has already closed some of the parks with bodies of water

I'm surprised no one has started a 'pay to fish' set up, similar to the pheasant/chukar/quail hunting preserves. Used to be a few for private lakes/ponds around the state, and there was Eldridge Preserve in the Catskills, but it's gone upscale. https://www.facebook.com/fishingpoolmonthly/ this a pa...

46er wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:20 am

One of my Sons just moved to PA, in the middle of the Pinchot SF. Will be a fun year

tight lines !!!

troutfishing4life wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:18 am

Great news for our native brook trout

yep

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:44 am

These funds will also be used in PA and NY for native brook trout habitat restoration as well as here in NJ.

Great. I fish all 3 states

Finally my semi-local home river getting some love with some restoration on the lower Ramapo River in the Oakland area. This was a very productive stretch when I was a kid fishing with my Dad. Fished here on this little pier as a kid before the dam down river breeched. Some GREAT memories fishing th...