Garden State Trout

I'd rather fry up the pellets they are fed with than eat a stocked trout.

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

A real fat one! Congrats to the young man.

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....

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...

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.

Most local streams (NW part of the state) are at or near normal flows for time of year. Looks like the rest of this week is or could be wet. Fall is now right around the corner and they say we will see a strong hurricane season as far as number of storms.

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Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:57 pm

So 82 degree water then

Hmm, that warm, eh? Maybe I don't have a leak in my waders, after all....

cappy wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:18 pm

The coordinates provided are in Hackettstown.

So 82 degree water then

We need volunteers on the 18th and 19th to pull coir matting which is that coconut fiber material you see on the bank after we re-slope the banks. We will also need volunteers to help plant later this fall. Dates TBD but on weekends mostly.

Some before, during and after of site 6 on the Morris Canal site which is the upper 1/2 mile of this 1 1/2 mile long project. We start up on the final section at Lock Street next week again.

looks closer to mansfield lower section :?: That's what I thought. But Mansfield is well within the upper 1/3 of the river. If we are correct in our guess of location, no surprise at no trout. That section routinely sees summer water temps exceed lethality for trout and into the low 80s. We think o...

I just got back from Brigantine. Rays, small brown sharks and kingfish were in the surf. All the Fluke off a head boat were small as usual. We dod catch a few nice black sea bass in the bay, bit they are out of season. Also a few weakies which was nice to see. I fished Saturday when seabass was sti...

Upper river above Point Mountain?

Havent heard of albies yet but plenty of mac's and lots of really close bft....dont think the 9 wt will help you much with them....been gettin bft inside of 10 miles I can handle a football sized bluefin if lucky enough to find any. It's a 10 weight reel with over 300 yards of backing. But I'm not ...

Curious if anyone here has reports of Albies in NJ? I'll be out on a buddy's boat tomorrow, not sure if Shark River or Raritan yet. The Albies have been around at times along with Spanish Macks, at least off the beach, so I'm bringing my 9 weight Loomis along just in case. Otherwise it will be a flu...