Garden State Trout

Things look pretty good for this fall season with all the recent rain. Any recent fishing reports? Unfortunately I had almost percent of my fishing gear stolen (fly rod, UL and M spinning rod, vest, boxes of flies/lures, etc) so I haven't been out since my NC trip. That sucks about the stolen gear!...

Did you make it out there, any success? Monster storm may begin to affect the coast next week. 450 WTNT33 KNHC 080838 TCPAT3 BULLETIN Hurricane Lee Advisory Number 12 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132023 500 AM AST Fri Sep 08 2023 ...POWERFUL CATEGORY 5 LEE EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN ITS INTEN...

Did you make it out there, any success? Monster storm may begin to affect the coast next week. 450 WTNT33 KNHC 080838 TCPAT3 BULLETIN Hurricane Lee Advisory Number 12 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132023 500 AM AST Fri Sep 08 2023 ...POWERFUL CATEGORY 5 LEE EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN ITS INTEN...

Be careful if wading, really bad rip tides the past week with the offshore storms with another on the way. Three deaths with one still missing from the weekend. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=PHI&issuedby=PHI&product=SRF&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=on Rips are only dange...

Be careful if wading, really bad rip tides the past week with the offshore storms with another on the way. Three deaths with one still missing from the weekend. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=PHI&issuedby=PHI&product=SRF&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=on Rips are only dange...

False Albacore and Bonito are off the surf along with some Bluefish. Fall is here. :D I was out Sunday but offshore to maybe 8-9 miles out. We had Albies, but only very small Bonita and no blues. Tons of frigate and chub mackerel and even a 10' hammerhead in our slick for a few seconds that was coo...

BiggerThomas wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:49 pm

Nice. Thanks broskis.

What, no love for our native pumpinkseeds? 'Gills are non native after all....

martalus wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:27 pm

Skittering dry flies for remote wild brookies is like cheatin'!

I agree, what's your point??

joe_panella wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:21 am

I Hope you were dry fly fishing. Beautiful photos.

Mostly, yes. Oftentimes, our best action came when we skittered the dries on top. Wild brookies can't ignore a skittering fly.

Went on the Sea Tiger II yesterday morn for a1/2 day trip with the wife and a friend, all told, I had 1 short and 2 Robins, the wife got the skunk and my buddy had 3 shorts...it is slow picking, I believe only 3 keepers on the boat....Nice boat, nice people, I wish the fishing was better. I fished ...

The Native Fish Coalition is continuing to grow rapidly. The message of native, wild fish is a simple and uncomplicated one, and it seems to be resonating throughout the country. NFC is now up to 17 state chapters spanning Maine to Alabama and most states in between. We are seeing some support from ...

Razorbacker wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:26 am

I am dropping it off with Dennis in a couple weeks when I am up there. Any excuse to get me to the WB....

You should be very happy with his work. I know I and others have been.

A second for Dennis Menscer, but as noted, he's upstate on the lower WBD. He used to do business through Shannon's and come down monthly, but I'm not sure if that relationship has continued since Jim's passing. But he makes and repairs bamboo.

Personally, I could care less how others fish 1) so long as it's legal and 2) so long as it's not over the top of where I'm fishing. As soon as a pinner starts to drift over where I'm fishing, I reach for this and force him to lose some line....

No thanks. I was next to one of these things once. he thought the whole river was his, drifting many many yards in front of me and others.... Nope, not for me. I saw a couple of guys on the Flatbrook and Musky center pin fishing. Might as well just use spinning gear unless you're on the really big ...

Someone sent me a picture of this sexy 58 year old angler

Looks like heaven! How big did the biggest brookies go? Looks like they are in the 14-15 inch range. Was the water cold? Trick photography :D Biggest there isn't any larger than 11" or so. Water temps depended on which river or stream you were on, but my Kintrex gave me readings between 61F and 64 ...

46er wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:56 pm

Good stuff! Any black flies still around?

No! We had surprisingly few bugs all five days. Some mosquitos and some deer flies, but I never used bug spray of any type and wasn't slapping at my exposed skin all day. We got lucky!

Some random pix.....

It was a great trip complete with the obligatory nuisance bear in the campground most nights. I need to download pix off my phone and will upload a bunch here. Those that are Facebook friends have already seen them there. A wild, native brook trout behind every rock for the most part, great scenery,...