Garden State Trout

Pete wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 06, 2026 12:40 pm

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:11 am

Agreed, but too many only look at trying to park at "angry man lot" and don't gain access. They don't know about the top down hike.

Years ago, "Beetle" found one of the trails to BSB.
How hard can it be?

There are a few tributaries that feed into the ramapo that hold wild brook trout in the mahwah area ;) I know of one, however public access seems to be impossible. You can hike to at least two from the Ramapo Reservation county park. Look at the trail maps. Agreed, but too many only look at trying ...

@Rusty - Is the renovation geared to Trout habitat, or simply stream restoration? Am I safe to assume there are no "wild" Trout in the Ramapo? It is to repair all of the "shoaling" that occurred when a large bank below Crystal Lake sloughed into the river during Hurricane Irene a bunch of years ago...

One of the few bigger NJ streams that I've never fished, I probably should hit it and cross it off the "bucket" list. Anybody fish in on the NY in the Tuxedo area? I road my ten speed there with my best friend when we were kids at least a few times. Spin fished the huge pool below the big lake, but...

Here is the plan for enhancement of the Ramapo in part of the Borough of Oakland...

Rusty posted"Can't believe it took us about 20 years to get the creel limit lowered to 2 trout after June 1, but we finally did it." I would rephrase that to read: "I can't believe it ONLY took 20 years..." I agree with this sentiment, hopefully it will mean more trout available in the fall. Agreed...

My firm is working with Dresner Robin Engineering on a river restoration for the mighty 'Po starting immediately below Lenape Lane and ending at the Railroad crossing. This forum's setup doesn't allow me to post up the design as it is in .pdf. Let me see if I can save some pages as .jpg files. Hard ...

FISHING REGULATIONS UPDATE: New Freshwater Fishing Regulations will go into effect February 17. The new rules are designed to provide more angling opportunities and to simplify the regulations, while providing adequate protection of our fisheries resources. Major changes include: • Removal of the t...

FISHING REGULATIONS UPDATE: New Freshwater Fishing Regulations will go into effect February 17. The new rules are designed to provide more angling opportunities and to simplify the regulations, while providing adequate protection of our fisheries resources. Major changes include: • Removal of the t...

My firm will be invited to bid on this. It is disappointing to me that no actual river restoration work will happen. The plan for the river is to simply remove the old and dangerous concrete diving platform in the river in Hackettstown's park. No in-stream habitat restoration. well that sucks. the ...

My firm will be invited to bid on this. It is disappointing to me that no actual river restoration work will happen. The plan for the river is to simply remove the old and dangerous concrete diving platform in the river in Hackettstown's park. No in-stream habitat restoration.

We went for the first time since covid. If you saw a couple wearing masks on Saturday, that was us. Our impression was it was very lightly attended. We were surprised in fact. Other Saturdays in previous years, it was shoulder to shoulder by 10:30 on Saturday. We got a fantastic deal on some 6 wt r...

Nice to see the way overpriced beef jerky booth was still there. Along with umpteenth outfitters for exotic places I'll never travel. The seminars were even a bit meh on Saturday, the 2 I really wanted to see about wet fly fishing conflicted with one another and were the 1st ones scheduled, I got c...

Good to hear "all" the big rod manufacturers attended, wasn't the case the last couple of times I attended. So how did the new T&T Contact III look and feel, if you took a look at it, assuming they had samples to see and cast? I saw T&T, but didn't go into any of the rod booths. I have all the fly ...

I agree, two days for the expo is plenty. I've skipped it the past two years, too many outfitters, big name manufacturers not attending, and no deals everyone wants top dollar and charge tax even if out of state and paying cash. I can do better ordering online. So, wouldn't you know that this year ...

Well, that was an interesting Show. Friday had a very strong turnout all day. Vendors were talking among themselves starting Thursday evening when we were all setting up about what to do with the snowstorm headed our way. By Saturday morning, a few booths crashed their stuff and left. There was a de...

Make sure to wait for Sunday so those of us working the Show aren't staring at each other that day!

Great footage. I only have time for about a third of it, so will watch the rest later.

Wish I had some info for you, but I'm out.

Makes sense, even in Monmouth county streams, if we had a cool spring and moderate June into July, the Brookies would spread out and hold for a surprisingly long time. Not sure any held over throughout the entire summer except perhaps near the spring seeps in the Manasquan. A couple of guys talked ...