Garden State Trout

What you are seeing are multiple violations. I know the town of Mendham (Twp., not Borough) is on it this morning. So is Raritan Headwaters and TU. But I have yet to hear from DEP Enforcement which has me concerned as they have not seen any photos and I have no idea if they've been on site yet. Thi...

Taken from a thread from NJF, https://www.njfishing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110481 "B.C. got a call from one of our members that was hiking along India Brook in Mendham Twp. earlier today. He came across what is clearly an illegal diversion in a C-1 wild trout stream. I took these photos and oth...

I'm not sure any company manufactures a decent bootfoot wader. They are all 100% crap IMO. There is a reason that they are cheap and nobody except the most casual angler buys them in the last 20 + years. Go stocking foot with wading boots and all that uncomfortableness will be gone and the rubber b...

My last pair got cracks in the rubber boots. No matter what I did with shoe glue / shoe gloo it wouldn't stop leaks. What I did, because they were small leaks, was were heavy duty trash bags over my pants, then slipped my legs into the waders. The cold water would never get to my wool socks/sweat pa...

Are we nearing drought conditions? Kind of stinks. Makes you wish for a hurricane to pass through ...maybe just the remnants of one

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:19 pm

My great uncle, Orland Bartholomew, worked as a stream gauger for USGS in California his entire career. His son, still alive today, is a retired CA fisheries biologist. I learned a lot from them when I was a younger man.

Interesting, Nice, glad to have the knowledge shared.

I saw a few government employees this morning standing in Spruce Run Creek with a line over it and a line hanging in the water by the flood gauge...anything to do with this or is this the USGS monitoring their gauges? That is how they calibrate their gauges. When you see a red "star" on a readout, ...

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:39 am

Somewhat off topic - The Division just hired a great new fisheries biologist, Garret Kratina. He was a seasonal employee here in NJ this summer for TU. They have added a few new biologists the last few years as retirements have cropped up.

Welcome, Garret (if your reading)

Ill commit once the smb stop biting I think after the October stocking ill try for trout once or twice, then nothing but trout once the smb bite gets cold

I go there sometimes. Ive seen trout in there just last month, probably not worth the effort to target them with the nice smb population to target instead. TOo bad the ravine lake dam spillway is private property too. I bet there's some nice fish there. I like to fish the other parts of the upper no...

I forget is trout fishing there open despite closures? If so i imagine the place is packed on any fair weather weekend these next few weeks. Please don't stock trout in Manville... I want that stretch of river still open for the closures :mrgreen: :mrgreen: No kidding i caught sone good holdovers th...

Only a proposal so far, ill be supporting this by sending electronic response which is on the bottom of that page.

Thanks all.

theBWproject wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:16 am

Nice fish! Please don't forget to pinch your barbs in the WTS.

Yes I did.

A friend and I were able to hook and land out first wild brook trout. With some simple research, we found a stream that exclusively supports brook trout. While we had some hit and nibble at the jigs with 1 inch grubs, the few brookies we hooked came on very tiny 1/80th oz jigs with some black marabo...

stocked rainbows and wild browns cant get enough of the lil bit twister tail on a jig

Troutman wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 5:25 pm

Stockie. Pectoral fin is ground down from concrete raceway imo

agree myself, just amazing how far these things swim! Stocked trout not so dumb after all!

Unexpectedly Caught two nice rainbows in middle brook (main stem middle brook). About 2000 ft upstream from confluence with main stem Raritan. It's stocked in the spring up in East Branch. However only fall stocking would be 9 miles upstream the raritan in n/s branches. Holdover? Or Stocked trout fr...

Razorbacker wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:44 am

Nice to see those! You were just downstream and behind my house. Was that recent?

Yes, January 4th.

I've only been here once, did well. It was on the lower section like south of schooleys mt. Thorn bushes EVERYWHERE. ever since carry one handed clippers.

I heard from a local while fishing around about "j+j Johnson" too , and to take those flint hill preserve signs seriously cause they can be defensive. I was able to stay away from those signs, the township owns some land on the black river, look for those signs that say "no hunting but fishing with ...