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by Rusty Spinner
Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:28 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Wild Brook trout
Replies: 28
Views: 23186

Re: Wild Brook trout

With the high water levels I hit a wild brook trout stream that's on state land in search of fish. Had a ball catching a half dozen 7"-8" wild................fall fish! Not a brookie to be found where I used to catch quite a few, they've been replace by the fall fish. I strongly suspect that someth...
by Rusty Spinner
Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:24 am
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Maine North Woods next week
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Re: Maine North Woods next week

Im going up to east side of Seneca Lake for rifle season. Ive got several friends that live around Burdett and Watkins Glen that have a lot of property. Nice. We have a 185 acre farm on one side of route 16 in New Lisbon/Garrattsville and a new 112 acre farm with standing corn, a trout stream, seve...
by Rusty Spinner
Mon Nov 01, 2021 1:53 pm
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Maine North Woods next week
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Re: Maine North Woods next week

we saw two... the guys in the cabin next to us bagged a few, but they had pointers. Just back from my upstate NY bow and small game trip. Lots of woodcock, but rabbits and grouse populations were fairly low for us. We flew grouse, but nobody got a good shot on one. I didn't get any shots at grouse ...
by Rusty Spinner
Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:19 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Thank Shannons :
Replies: 19
Views: 11341

Re: Thank Shannons :

While I say a big thank you to Shannons for this. I think the timing of the stocking is poor. They should have waited until November after every googan with a stringer stops fishing until the spring and then stock the fish. These are nice fish that would hold nicely all winter but alot go into buck...
by Rusty Spinner
Mon Nov 01, 2021 10:33 am
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Maine North Woods next week
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Re: Maine North Woods next week

Too bad it was a down cycle year for grouse. They are my favorite small game to pursue, hands down! At least the fish cooperated. Any woodcock? we saw two... the guys in the cabin next to us bagged a few, but they had pointers. Just back from my upstate NY bow and small game trip. Lots of woodcock,...
by Rusty Spinner
Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:41 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Golfing
Replies: 12
Views: 6474

Re: Golfing

Downstream needs work. Lots of trees down and shallow water. As in the horse farm below the bridge or on Fiddler's stretch? The horse farm is a mess, and the owner is someone I wouldn't work for. I've dealt with him in the past. He's got the farm up for sale. After paying $2 million for it, he aske...
by Rusty Spinner
Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:34 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Golfing
Replies: 12
Views: 6474

Re: Golfing

Fiddler's Elbow CC is my guess. Was there late last week looking at some recent widening of the river following Henri and Ida. May do some more work there as a result. Downstream needs work. Lots of trees down and shallow water. As in the horse farm below the bridge or on Fiddler's stretch? The hor...
by Rusty Spinner
Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Golfing
Replies: 12
Views: 6474

Re: Golfing

Fiddler's Elbow CC is my guess. Was there late last week looking at some recent widening of the river following Henri and Ida. May do some more work there as a result.
by Rusty Spinner
Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: Conservation Issues, Groups and Projects
Topic: Mudsnails in the Musky
Replies: 1
Views: 6527

Re: Mudsnails in the Musky

We've known about them for a couple of years now. Yet another invasive to add to the ever-growing list for the northeast..... :cry:
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:49 am
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Maine North Woods next week
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Re: Maine North Woods next week

Too bad it was a down cycle year for grouse. They are my favorite small game to pursue, hands down! At least the fish cooperated. Any woodcock?
by Rusty Spinner
Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:47 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Say it aint so ?
Replies: 27
Views: 22357

Re: Say it aint so ?

I'd rather fry up the pellets they are fed with than eat a stocked trout. :lol:
by Rusty Spinner
Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:45 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Streams have been completely changed..
Replies: 17
Views: 11921

Re: Streams have been completely changed..

The brand new retaining wall next to Hunt Place in Glen Gardner is destroyed... Where the quarry did their SEP (Secondary Environmental Project)? The small park in Glen Gardner? Yup.. The one we were speaking about last fall...it bowed a bit outwards in the middle and that is where it failed... I s...
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 3:42 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Streams have been completely changed..
Replies: 17
Views: 11921

Re: Streams have been completely changed..

NJAngler wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 3:25 pm
Try this link to see photos

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GPTrvuoy58nyz5v56
That link worked as does your VC link. Thanks for sharing. I'll post video from the lower Lopat shortly, but I don't have Ida video but rather Henri video. Ida was worse, but I wasn't there that night to film it.
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:43 pm
Forum: Conservation Issues, Groups and Projects
Topic: PA Hemlock decline
Replies: 2
Views: 7143

Re: PA Hemlock decline

Yup, old story since hemlock wooly adelgids have been here for a couple of decades now, but their damage continues. But there may be a silver lining. Places like Sparta Glen which was ground zero for the infestation are seeing new hemlocks growing in the forest and the wooly adelgids either gone or ...
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:38 pm
Forum: Other Fishing
Topic: Albies?
Replies: 7
Views: 11158

Re: Albies?

Johnw wrote:
Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:54 am
Lots of Albie reports all the way from the surf and inlets to party boats. It’s that time of year.
Yup, and the reason it is is because I have to work and can't take time off to fish right now. :D
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:21 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Streams have been completely changed..
Replies: 17
Views: 11921

Re: Streams have been completely changed..

I got a call from a landowner adjacent to a section of the Capoolong we restored for the Division several years ago. The river widened itself by up to 20'. That is amazing for a river that averages maybe 20' at its widest. Ida is now the flood of record for many watersheds here in trout country, NJ...
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:20 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Kid's first brook trout
Replies: 1
Views: 2388

Re: Kid's first brook trout

A real fat one! Congrats to the young man.
by Rusty Spinner
Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:18 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Streams have been completely changed..
Replies: 17
Views: 11921

Re: Streams have been completely changed..

I got a call from a landowner adjacent to a section of the Capoolong we restored for the Division several years ago. The river widened itself by up to 20'. That is amazing for a river that averages maybe 20' at its widest. Ida is now the flood of record for many watersheds here in trout country, NJ....
by Rusty Spinner
Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:43 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Rain doing any good?
Replies: 8
Views: 6387

Re: Rain doing any good?

5.2" of rain from Henri so far and still drizzling here in Flanders in NW part of the state. I'm watching the wrap around effect and we may get more bands of heavier rains later, but too soon to say one way or the other. Luckily for my area, it wasn't a wind event as our ground is fairly saturated a...
by Rusty Spinner
Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:25 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: chest waders vs. pants
Replies: 13
Views: 8219

Re: chest waders vs. pants

I'm not normal as I regularly wade up to my nipples to make long casts on bigger rivers, so I'm a chest wader guy all the way. But on a hot day when I'm not wading deep, they fold down to waist very easily.