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- Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:08 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Winter Trout, Anyone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14730
Re: Winter Trout, Anyone?
Again, thanks for the input! Got out on Saturday--the coldest day for me so far this season--and got a lot of practice at dealing with ice in the guides. (Every time out is a learning experience.) Saw some fish, but none of them wanted to take the flies I offered. Went back out on Monday, same venue...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: "Free-riders"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10988
Re: "Free-riders"
FYI, from page 16 of NJ Freshwater Fishing Digest, under License Information: "License must be visibly displayed on outer clothing. So, it's the law--but no biggie?
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: "Free-riders"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10988
Re: "Free-riders"
I thought I read somewhere that your license is to be displayed while fishing. Seems reasonable. I guess it falls in the category of things like tinted glass in car windows (something I always believed to be illegal, that cops didn't want it, yet you see it) and needing a front license plate in NJ (...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:25 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: "Free-riders"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10988
"Free-riders"
Is it just me--or have I actually been seeing an increase in unlicensed fishermen (not a fisher-woman--yet) during this last year? Has anyone observed something similar? Seems to have been more people fishing through the pandemic--but more unlicensed folk as well.
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Fresh trout stocking
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4544
Re: Fresh trout stocking
Awesome!! Thanks to all the volunteers!
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:51 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Winter Trout, Anyone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14730
Winter Trout, Anyone?
Mid-teens here this morning and I'm looking forward to it warming a bit before heading out. The 'bows have been biting lately. Anyone else going to be wading through the snow to fish this weekend? I saw that the SBR water temp. flat-lined at 32 degrees the other day. Does it ever get too cold and ad...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:43 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: "State Open Waters"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8858
Re: "State Open Waters"
Okay, I thank you all--and feel enlightened. I will watch my step!
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: "State Open Waters"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8858
"State Open Waters"
This might have already been discussed on here--but I wonder if anyone can clarify this. I'm walking along my local stream--part of which is posted with NJ DEP Fish and Wildlife tags on the trees--and then I see "No Trespassing" signs along another reach of the same stream, saying that that land (an...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:19 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: nice stocker brown
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12163
Re: nice stocker brown
I'll just comment that coaltrout's photo that began this thread shows something very different than the trout in the following three photos--that fish in the first photo is crowded with black spots--definitely seems like a different variety.
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:19 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: nice stocker brown
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12163
Re: nice stocker brown
I'll just comment that coaltrout's photo that began this thread shows something very different than the trout in the following three photos--that fish in the first photo is crowded with black spots--definitely seems like a different variety.
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:02 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: nice stocker brown
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12163
Re: nice stocker brown
Yeah, nice fish! How do you tell whether it's a stocked brown or wild?
See attached photo. It's the biggest brown to come my way yet--about 15 inches. Can anyone say whether it's wild or stocked?
See attached photo. It's the biggest brown to come my way yet--about 15 inches. Can anyone say whether it's wild or stocked?
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:20 pm
- Forum: Fly Tying and Entomology
- Topic: New fly tiers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 22583
Re: New fly tiers
How about Sucker Spawn pattern?
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Re: Muddy Water
From yesterday...not sure if it took the egg pattern or the beadhead...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Re: Muddy Water
The interesting thing is that I've been finding rainbow trout in a waterway that was not included on the list for fall stocking--but the 'bows that I've been finding there I would say are clearly of the large, two-year-old fall-stocking variety. So, then would they have moved up into a tributary fro...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Re: Muddy Water
A friend and long-time fly-fisher told me the big, fall stocking rainbows may be coming up into the smaller waterways from where they were stocked in the SBR and Musky for breeding. Can anyone verify any of that?
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Re: Muddy Water
Yeah, Vance, I am getting the understanding that trout are less skittish when water is turbid/"dirty"--and that they try to shelter from the faster flows (although I've seen video online of them holding position in fast water--and that video said that trout actually expend less energy maintaining po...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Re: Muddy Water
Good to hear from you folks! Postscript goes like this: We got more rain (Friday night) and the stream was again high and muddy on Saturday. But I fished there on Sunday, again, because the SBR and Musky were still running high. The idea was the same: The smaller waterway would rise quicker and fall...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:22 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Muddy Water
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10487
Muddy Water
P1000921 (2).JPG With everything flowing high and muddy last Tuesday, I decided to try a local creek thinking it would have come up sooner and would go down sooner. The water there was elevated, muddy, but looked wade-able. As I geared-up on the side of the road, a guy pulled up to comment: "Don't ...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:39 pm
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Bent hooks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8045
Re: Bent hooks
I want to thank everyone for the input. Seems it comes down to whether or not you're willing to risk losing a big fish because of a previously-bent and re-bent hook. I'll admit that sometimes I'll use a tippet for more than one outing, telling myself that I probably won't be catching anything big en...
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:09 am
- Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
- Topic: Bent hooks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8045
Bent hooks
Any opinions about the performance of hooks that get bent from snags and you re-shape using forceps?