Garden State Trout

Please join CJST for our first cleanup in Warren County as we partner with The Nature Conservancy and local groups on a watershed wide cleanup of the Paulinskill River. CJST will be focusing on the former lakebed of Columbia Lake which was exposed several months ago as part of the Columbia Dam remov...

Easy pickins !

9/16/18: It was one stop shopping on the Raritan river in Piscataway. Along with rice, flowers, limes, coconuts, bamboo and other creative offerings.

Central Jersey Stream Team and volunteers are slated to clean that stretch of water October 27th weather permitting, you can join us if you like.
If you get more photos of tires in the water there I would love to see them, thanks.

Tidal section by the municipal building and library.

Central Jersey Stream Team clean up Rahway river.

Is this a WTS. I take it you were using barbless hooks also.

My question to you is where are these "native" Brook Trout the State keeps going on and on about ? Should they not be where you are fishing ?
Nice trout BTW.

Floated from Raritan Borough to Piscataway, roughly 10 miles in just a little over 6 hours. The high water had us moving ! No shortage of smallmouth bass from start to finish, just none really photo worthy. Hook a smallmouth bass and they fight like crazy, get it to the canoe and it's only a 12" fis...

Yes the tail waters from dams are a good spot to fish, but what most fail to realize is the miles of water above the dam where the water is a bathtub of hot silted water. Tear all the dams down for cooler free flowing water. A video was made during the water release just prior to the dam being taken...

Taking fish out of a foot of water is really incredible. Casting small swim baits along any weed line or shady area. Find the shade find the fish. Saw 3 bald eagles on the S Branch float. Look into Kietechs on jig heads, deadly. We caught so many small bass we quickly lost count. Float trips are the...

Both the N and S branch are amazing to explore, we are lucky.

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N and S branch