Garden State Trout

Nice change of pace with these temps, but uuuuuuugh more water please! Here's a few wild trout from this weekend. I explored a new spot, I should stick to my "1 mile" rule when looking at a map for blue lining: if the creek isnt at least a mile long it probably isnt worth trout fishing. Because this...

so far ive been out once, last sunday. no action and tried out front. the surf was nice at least.

https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/news-2024-10-21-fall-trout-stocking-updates/ OCTOBER 21, 2024 UPDATE: -Big Flat Brook (Upstream of Rt. 206): Flows in this section of the Big Flat Brook are too low for trout stocking. The fish allocated for this section will be distributed downstream of Rt. 206 throughout th...

Camping trip with friends by the East Branch Delaware. The Brown trout fishing in the river was good with the reservoir releases. But i ended up spending more time fishing 3 different tribs for brookies. I would have preferred better flows, but im excited to try this one creek again in the future. N...

curious, has a stream restoration ever been fully documented on video. would be cool to see footage of the entire progress

Sometime last week or so, I visited the North Branch upstream by Far Hills and saw the water was very muddy/stained. I brushed it off, thinking it was from the T-storms that night, but i didnt think it was that rough? A few days ago i visited it again and saw the same. So I then went upstream to see...

was at LBI this weekend and found some fluke
first light, small bluefish
Good tog fishing too in the jetty

Havent seen albies in the surf tho but hope to get one this year.

Not seeing it, it would have the stripe and other black markings like on the fins if it were a lmb? Ive caught some on lmb/smb yoy on tanagos already and they dont look remotely like this

Looks like a cutlips minnow for that small one. cutlips have a downturned mouth? https://portal.ct.gov/deep/fishing/freshwater/freshwater-fishes-of-connecticut/cutlip-minnow this one has an up facing mouth sorta like a bass. Not that i have better guess however ! Friend suggested eastern silvery mi...

We had big rains and cool temps here last week, staying around family up in NY. No salmon or trout running locally here so explored some creeks and found good looking water holding brook trout. Bonus microfish on the tanago! https://i.postimg.cc/0bY2fC7R/0811241147b.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/7f8Z0RGn...

Sounds like a great trip, tons of smallies in that section you can see them from a high bank anywhere. How did you arrange put in/take out, within your group or commercial? I was thinking a section or 2 of the Delaware Sojourn next June and fish along the way. arranged shuttling with the group. the...

This last weekend my group and I camped and floated the delaware river. Milford PA to Smithfield beach. Supposedly last week the upper Delaware had high flows and it was blown out, so while the conditions were calmer downstream we ended up with all the stained water and floating grass debris on our ...

I was always a big fan of trout fishing in NJ through fall and winter. The bigger trout always impressed me! And it only makes sense that you put more fish in just AFTER the season where they cant survive, so they have a longer time to be catchable before getting boiled alive the next summer. But be...

This is an individuals forum to a dedicated topic, a whole lot different than a FB,or TICy TOCy or X also known as Twitter. Cute names though. :shock: ive been using FB for a year now and as long as you keep to good fishing groups it's a pretty enjoyable experience IMO. Thats a tricky aspect to pre...

I dont trout fish much outside of winter, hence why i havent posted much recently. Last year I did finally get a facebook account, joined my group's private group for NJ fishing multispecies. It's been great. Feel free to ask me for an invite there. There's that Public NJ Trout 101 page but I mostly...

Unrelated to my last post. I didnt get around to exploring more of those two creeks yet. https://i.postimg.cc/QB2jvS55/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/6ybqYrHV/image.png Assuming this is wild because this is one of the State's Wild Brown Trout Enhancement streams, + I never happen to find any rainbow...

I like the colors on that wild bow. Is the stream not known to have them and you happened to find one? How big was the brown? Did you pull any drag? Same, i really like the bows in this creek. There's an impoundment downstream of it, it's cut off from all the lower watershed. I cant find online whe...

I hit a different creek this morning around noon before the snow, got one of the nicest browns Ive ever caught out of this area.


Usually i just find dinks half this size

I started exploring again in NJ for wild trout. So far found a new wild 'bow creek which is cool. https://i.postimg.cc/SN0YtgSg/1228231243d2.jpg I also fished downstream of a well known brookie stream around my area. I would fish the park normally but tried exploring further down in the system, nota...

thanks, yea im not sure if they cared too much about rehabilitation with this one, more so just wanted the dam down before it came down itself by accident?