Garden State Trout

ah I see, yes im new to the scene. cant say it's cheating for me cause my stealth skills are LOW :mrgreen:. These streams with hungrier but spookish fish help me improve that skill a lot. Some of us are more stealthier than others. Me, not so much, but I do use natural screens like trees or crawl o...

Fishing WTS is like cheating by WTS I mean any stream with wild trout not just the ones the state lists in the digest under "WTS". not sure what's cheating about it tho. Were you a long time njtrout and tristate trout member? The saying goes back to those times. WTS streams, whether in the digest o...

Fishing WTS is like cheating

If someone recognizes the stream from a photograph of a rock or pool, then it's identity is already known. Remember DenisF use to post zoomed in google map of beaver ponds, now that was risking its location. It didn’t take long for me to PM DenisF a zoomed out screen shot of the location. He then st...

Just a word on what flies .... Go look at the pictures of lahonton cutthroat throat on njfishing, those fish are like 10lbs , and what do they eat ? Flies .... You can catch a sailfish on flies .... To say a 24in brown wont eat flies ......well there are many reading this message board who can prov...

Troutman wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:15 pm

garden hackle wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2020 8:03 pm

Spin fishing is like cheating

. Like fly fishing isnt . flies are what trout are genetically programmed to eat

Using a mop fly IS cheating.

Loss of suitable spawning habitat or trout magnets are other possibility for one species to vanish besides disease and panther martins. Thermal events is related to spawning as is numerous low water years. I feel targeted......... didnt you know, once a trout touches a soft plastic or a spinner bla...

Spin fishing is like cheating

Birds could do real number on a stream, but I don't see how they could lead to a wholesale collapse like the one you mentioned in NE NJ (the Q?) No not there. Most I have seen in Warren/Hunterdon streams. Tribs to larger rivers like Delaware, SBRR, Paulinskill and Musky as well as tribs to our rese...

One of the biggest challenges in NJ is finding accessible WTS water and winter with everything wide open is a good time to do so. Only a handful of WTS are 100% public - like VCB and Dunnfield - and those few get more attention for it. Never understood how no landowner-access agreements have been m...

What are the Hook size for LBS?

To carry a net is to dream you might catch a fish.

I look to travel light, unless I am fishing salmon or steelhead, I usually leave the net behind.

Not trying to hijack or diminish your thread, just curious: how many people don't use a net at all? When my first one got worn out, I just never got a new one. Now I release all my fish in the water (as of late, at least; I hope no one can produce my infamous Gill Grab...). Fishing with a net is li...

Fishing WTS is like cheating

Rick was always first to volunteer at TU events, always tying up a few stoneflies at the table. He couldn’t get around much because of his knees, but he talked of his many trips fishing. He was treasurer for the NJTU as well as RVTU for many years. Most of us know of his stocking efforts and may hav...

Woolybugger, hare’s ear, elk hair Caddis

It cover several tying techniques, different fishing techniques and are very effective.

There are many good choices and many good reasons for other choices.

Happy New Year everyone, don’t forget your 2020 fishing license if you head out. In years past some had posted pictures with the previous years license visible. Good luck out there and stay off the icebergs when fishing (Tom RU listening? LOL)

Jaybird wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:38 am

It's almost over , but more importantly the days have started to get longer , just about 4 months till trout season in NJ gets into full swing

You can fish for trout year round, not on every stream, river or lake, but all year round in NJ.

Merry Christmas from me. Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends, Happy Kwanza to those that celebrate that holiday and happy holiday sales days to those that celebrate Flashing Blue Light festivities.