Garden State Trout

Hey Rusty, Helios 3, Recon, and Super Fine Glass are all manufactured in Vermont. Quick look at Helios F 9' 5wt clocks in at $1098. Ouch. I get what you say about tariffs, however if we (the consumer) want less expensive products then we will have to have the product made somewhere cheaper. We will...

Wow, people still post here. I guess I'll have to visit a little more often. On to Orvis: Here is the state ment from Orvis President "A year ago, Orvis began an effort to strengthen its business by scaling it down. The retailer at that point announced layoffs of 8% of its workforce, the closure of...

Fingers crossed that we get at least 2.5" of rain tomorrow into early Friday. It's a start, but we so desperately need more and a lot more! How did the SBR watershed fare? I'm skeptical of the USGS gauges with the govt shutdown. We got 1.68" of rain was all in the headwaters. Flows jumped to nearly...

Fingers crossed that we get at least 2.5" of rain tomorrow into early Friday. It's a start, but we so desperately need more and a lot more!

My kind is a dying breed. Orvis made its money from fly fishing and bird hunting. There are so few who still bird hunt over good dogs with nice gear these days. Fly fishing is holding its own, but new anglers don't care about stodgy brands like Orvis. It's whatever the best deal is on the internet.

Refocus, closing stores. https://vtdigger.org/2025/10/02/orvis-to-close-36-locations-by-early-2026/ I saw that. Orvis stores have always suffered, at least those around here. I can think of a bunch that were "company stores" that went under. Short Hills Mall is one that comes quickly to mind.

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Mon Oct 13, 2025 4:18 pm

There is a hell of a lot water down here, just salty

Yikes! Up this way, we got a whopping 0.45"

First Nor'easter is on the way for end of weekend. https://www.windy.com/?rain,2025-10-12-17,39.712,-75.923,6,i:pressure,p:cities Good news, but only up to an inch of rain for inland areas where the trout are. And we only got 1/2" the other day here in the SBR headwaters which is very near the Musc...

Historic low flows right now for nearly 100% of all NJ streams and rivers. Musky down to 54 cfs. I think the lower 70s are exceptionally low for most summers. We have up to an inch headed our way later tonight into tomorrow. Let's hope they are wrong and we get 2" instead. We need to start somewhere.

Fantastic pictures, even better fish :!: :!: :!: Good times for the memory banks. How long was the travel time, here to there :?: So my one buddy who handled all of the arrangements is married to a corporate travel agent. She hooked us up with nonstop flights from Newark to Anchorage on United out ...

This seems like one of those years where the only relief from the drought will be a hurricane or tropical depression running up the eastern seaboard and dumping flooding rains like Irene some 14 years ago. Many of our trout streams and rivers are seeing historic low flows as we enter the spawning se...

The woman you see with the halibut was the only female on the trip. She's from the Charleston, SC area, but lived in Alaska for three years and comes back frequently. Her halibut was so big, she was unable to reel it in, so I held the rod with one hand and she reeled with both of her hands until the...

Some pix from the trip that we did enjoy.... IMG_3428.jpg IMG_3428.jpg IMG_3426.jpg IMG_3403.jpg IMG_3395.jpg IMG_3374.jpg IMG_3373.jpg IMG_3372.jpg IMG_3370.jpg IMG_3367.jpg IMG_3362.jpg IMG_3357.jpg IMG_3352.jpg IMG_3344.jpg IMG_3337.jpg IMG_3330.jpg IMG_3326.jpg IMG_3322.jpg IMG_3308.jpg 10566514...

Are you still in AK :mrgreen: No, lol. Our trip ran into a major travel issue and we had to back out. Long story short, the local bush plane airline had one plane down unexpectedly and were then over booked for their other plane. After a three day delay sitting in a B and B in Bethel, AK, we were f...

I leave this week for 14 days. We will groundfish on Friday down in Seward for lingcod, halibut and rockfish. Then we make our way back to Anchorage and fly to a remote airport, spend the night, pare down our gear to 40 lbs, and climb into a turbo DeHavilland Beaver to fly in to the northern end of ...

I leave this week for 14 days. We will groundfish on Friday down in Seward for lingcod, halibut and rockfish. Then we make our way back to Anchorage and fly to a remote airport, spend the night, pare down our gear to 40 lbs, and climb into a turbo DeHavilland Beaver to fly in to the northern end of ...

Found around the internet: 1.Stilesville (about a mile north of the state police barracks) 2.New England Wood Pellet (Formerly Norbord Corp. (at the Deposit bridge)) 3.Barking Dog area, slighly downstream of the Deposit bridge 4. Balls Eddy (Pennsylvania state access) 5. Shehawkin (Pennsylvania sta...

here's a question I have thou. Ive floated down from Deposit down to past Junction pool. I ran into a few areas that was posted no fishing in certain sections in the river. Im taking that a private section belonging to clubs. How does that apply when your floating in the water. I know you cant wade...

The other issue is with the former Hale Eddy boat ramp. I haven't floated down the WB in years because of this. As someone with a drift boat, I'd fish the Main from April until usually the first week in June or whenever it got too hot. Then I'd move to the WB. I'd normally put the boat in at Styles...

I was talking to a guide and good friend that lives on the lower WBD just yesterday after I posted last. He agreed that the intense pressure is changing trout behavior, and even during hatches, we are seeing far fewer trout rise to flies. I watched in horror last late April and early May when I spen...