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- Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Central Jersey Recommendations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8840
Re: Central Jersey Recommendations
Hi Guys, Just a short note. I live in Manahawkin and I go to the South Branch to do my trout fishing. Sure it takes me 11/2 hours to get there but who cares as I am fishing in some of the best waters in Jersey. While I am driving up the Pkwy. I am thinking about where to fish. Do I go up Rte.31 fart...
- Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:11 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Van Campens restoration project.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43879
Yellowstone Nation Park
Hello, If you have never been to Yellowstone National Park you Have to go. It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life. When they say Montana is big sky country they were talking about Yellowstone. I will never forget walking on the Yellowstone bridge and having a bison walking down t...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Need a Crash Course on Spring Flies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8843
Re: Need a Crash Course on Spring Flies
Hi, One of the best is a Pheasant Tail nymphs in 14,16 and18. Gold ribbed hares ear in the same sizes. For dries Hendrickson’s ,Red Quill and dark caddis, small blue winged olives, blue quills. The Hendrickson and red quills in 12 or 14. The others in16 and 18. Musky is a good choice and don’t forge...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:07 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: It won't be long now!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9890
Re: It won't be long now!
Quail also like ticks. They gobble them up. Bill the mailman
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:54 am
- Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
- Topic: Montana or Northern New Mexico?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16657
Re: Montana or Northern New Mexico?
Hello, One of the reasons I moved to south jersey is health care. Hospital and doctors are two miles away. Easy access to both. Sure the fishing is great in Montana but as you age you really have to think about health care. What about children? Are they pretty close by or are they going to be two th...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:45 am
- Forum: Other Fishing
- Topic: Recommend a 3wt for Bluegill
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19276
Re: Recommend a 3wt for Bluegill
Hi, As for sunfish they do not care if you are 30 feet away or 6 feet away from them. They probably do not care if you are using a six foot rod or a nine foot rod. And I am sure that they do not care if the rod costs $20.00 or $200.00. Go to eBay to see what they have in a 3 weight or even a 4 weigh...
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Other Fishing
- Topic: Ice fishing this weekend!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23858
Re: Ice fishing this weekend!
Hey Rusty, How was your ice fishing trip? What in heck is a Irish Car Bomb? Since I don’t drink never heard of them. Now it will be a job getting out onto the ice in northwest jersey since hey got hammered with the snow. Here in Manahawkin we got one inch which as fine by me. Had my driveway shovele...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 2:26 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: It's 18 degrees outside...time to start thinking about hatches
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9780
Re: It's 18 degrees outside...time to start thinking about hatches
Hi, Big Flatbrook has a great black stonefly hatch. A couple of years ago in March they were all over the place. I had most of my hits under water and my version of the fly is a all black caddis fly in a size 16 or 18. I use the cheek hairs from a white tail buck for the wing because it lays flat on...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:50 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Places to fish in NJ
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10390
Re: Places to fish in NJ
Hello. I can barely remember fishing Franklin Lks. when I was 18. At the time it was still a dairy farm. I would park the car about 1/2 mile away and sneak through the woods lay on my stomach and cast into the lake. I would fish across from the barn. I could fish for about an hour or so before the g...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 8:10 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Setting The Hook While Nymphing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8632
Re: Setting The Hook While Nymphing
Hello Bigger, What you wrote is what I do also. Bill
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Setting The Hook While Nymphing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8632
Re: Setting The Hook While Nymphing
Hello, If the trout is down stream from where I am standing and if it to my left then I strike at about 45 degree angle to my right. If trout is to my right then 45 degree angle to my left. Trout left strike right, trout right strike left. This is no matter if fish is up stream or down stream. This ...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: Fly Tying and Entomology
- Topic: Am I slow, or is this normal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12155
Re: Am I slow, or is this normal
Hi, I can tie a caddis fly in about 1 minute. After I lay out all the material on my desk it only takes about one minute. Here goes body,wing and then hackle. The wing I use is from the cheeks of a white tailed buck. They are about one inch long and easy to use. I always put a hackle between wing an...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:00 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Get a job
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9902
Re: Get a job
Hi, Maybe if I was in my early 20’s I would apply for the job. But being in my early 80’s it’s a no no job for me. I would not mine working outside as I was a mailman for 37 years and had a walking route. Just have to dress for the weather. But, hey can you imagine fishing the raceways with a fly. W...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Online fly store
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8814
Re: Online fly store
Hi, Depending on where you live. I would go to Shannon’s in Califon,NJ. They have a web site so you can get directions to there place. Heck they would even tell where to fish and what to use. They are very helpful and close to the gorge. Fish from Hoffman’s Crossing up stream. Bill the mailman
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:09 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Online fly store
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8814
Re: Online fly store
Hi, Ramsey Outdoor Store in Ramsey,NJ. Maybe Shannon’s in Highbridge. The flies to use would be midges, midges and midges. BWO in sizes 18 thru 22 and pheasant tail in the same sizes. Probably some scuds in a size16. That’s all I can think of right now, Bill the mailman
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 6:58 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10446
Re: Muddy Water
Hello, I will never forget about three years ago while fishing the B’kill. The water was very muddy a real brown and flowing high. I said to myself that I drove all these miles to fish so I am going to fish. I started just above the cement bench that is on the B’kill old 17. I had one of my best day...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:32 am
- Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
- Topic: Gunpowder River Maryland-tailwater fishery
- Replies: 19
- Views: 31447
Re: Gunpowder River Maryland-tailwater fishery
Hello, My son lives in Fredrick,Md. He bought a book for me called Md. trout streams. It gives a county by county on where the streams are and small directions on how to get to them. At the back of the book are fly patterns and how to tie them. A lot of the streams are off of Route 15 heading north....
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:10 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Fall 2020 trout Stocking?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17833
Re: Fall 2020 trout Stocking?
46er, Boy I hope your right about the rain. I would like to see a nice steady rain for two or three days so it soaks into the ground. But any thing would help. Bill the mailman
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Fall 2020 trout Stocking?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 17833
Re: Fall 2020 trout Stocking?
Hello, I took a ride up to the Catskills to look at the leaves with my wife. We left Manahawkin,NJ on Monday morning about 10:30. We stayed at the Hampton Inn just outside of Milford,Pa. Went up to the Catskills on Tuesday AM. Took route 97 up to Hancock then quick way towards Roscoe. The leaves wer...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:44 am
- Forum: Other Fishing
- Topic: What Bluegill Can Tell Us About the Future
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6378
Re: What Bluegill Can Tell Us About the Future
Hello, boy you wrote the truth about kids now a days. I have six grandkids from 21 down to 8. If they did not have there phones they would be lost. They have to have the fastest thumbs in the world. They are always texting or playing games on there phones. I took my one grandson to the shore to go f...