Garden State Trout

Im experiencing ice fishing for the first time this season, what fun !

What is the wild trout situation like in Hacklebarny on the Black. My time is valuable at this state of my life, i try not waste it in put and take fisheries. last time i fished it like two years ago there was a few of small brownies most likely because they were pushed out of the tributaries. Go t...

damn was expecting a 12+ inch brookie

Or work for free
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/wcchome.htm

nice looking browns and stretch of water

pretty browns,
I fish WTSs with a friend sometimes, usually it's a turn-taking thing where one guy takes point, swap every time a fish is caught. But with 5 guys, idk how that'll be fun on a WTS

always nice to have a stream not FILLED with thorns on the banks looks like a great stream to fish.

I thought it's the fly shops that do it. Supplement stockings funded by them and other orgs.

cant you just break it down half way if it's too long for the car? Normally at home I like to sort out tackle and gear, then dump it in car. sometimes will even drive with my waders on. My vest will already have all Im gonna need for the day. Pull out a snack from the trunk (nature valley bars or po...

i hardly see people to begin with :mrgreen: I think more people are keeping them off-display tho, none of my friends display it. It's no doubt there's a good % of anglers who just dont buy licenses. It seems easy to pull off; just dont fish anywhere popular. I think of the state actually cared and f...

you guys every wish you could lay flat on the ground and have someone pour a bucket of trout ontop of you.

In NJ, the landowner owns the bed of the stream and the banks, but the state owns the actual water and fish in it. So you can paddle through without touching bottom unless you find a tree across the river or a dam, and then you can exit your vessel for "reasonable portage" around said obstacle. But...

oddly some of my worst and best days are during mid of winter, usually always quality over quantity. Ive had some days tho where nothing seems to be alive nor biting in WTS that normally do good for quantity.

Jaybird wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:13 am

It's not 100% but what is? But when you see the dots on a brown trout starting to connect closer to the tail , it's usually a stocked fish .

yea i guess even wild trout could somehow have a snub fin if something bites it. The black dots connecting to the tail is a nice observation.

mine was obvious by the pectoral fin, snubbed and worn out. You can see it in my pic. it's not hiding behind my fingers, that's actually how tiny it was. It's kind of surprising how these guys swim without the big pectoral fins; it might explain why this one was not in fast water. I also found by co...

Troutman wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:25 am

interesting net you have there

it's very nice! I saw it on ebay and remember seeing it here lol. Theres even some clones of it on sale too.

Mixed up with some wild trout in NJ today, found a nice club brown to go along with it.
PA has been good too! nothing too big tho.

"Haven't been to KLG in many many years but curious how its held up since the stocking ceased" They stopped stocking KLG? Im certain they only stopped stocking the new classified WTS stretch, down to Schooley's Mt Road. See the freshwater digest for example https://i.postimg.cc/5096KzRC/image.png If...

Sunday was good trout fishing indeed. That sun shining really helps! Mmm bunch of stocked fish should be spread out by now too

The myth of bad fishing in muddy water was created by Big Fly companies to get you to fish less and browse gear catalogs more often lol