Garden State Trout

It was always borderline water meaning a few wild browns were caught from time to time. I imagine that dam upriver does not help the situation.

What is the wild trout situation like in Hacklebarny on the Black. My time is valuable at this state of my life, i try not waste it in put and take fisheries.

You can swing soft hackles when they are active. Try something on a small 3x long hook. Black hen for hackle, moose for the tail. You can use just about anything black for the body.

Depends what you want. I don't really have a local place. I do try and buy stuff from tighlines when I am in the area. Blue ribbon is awesome for hackle and skins and things. Tactical fly fishing and tco has good supply of euronymphing. Hook and hackle had the best discount fly lines in the business...

I assume the neversink is the closest river landlocks around?

Where is Brian with his update.

I may have caught one other turtle in my life, that night my dad and I caught a half dozen. Huge turtles. They Are kind of freaky when they emerge out of the water when it is dark.

I just read all this, I have catfshed spruce run 25 years ago and caught nothing but a half dozen of the biggest snappping turtles I have seen. As far as reproduction, when they drained Verona pond when I was a kid we found one about an inch long in a puddle and my buddy had it for years in his fish...

Next week's overnight lows look like they'll be in the mid to low 60s while daytime highs will be lower 80s...I'd love to get out for a week in August if possible. Temps will tell! for quite a few years now August has been really fishable. My childhood memories, especially fb double sessions in hs,...

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:45 pm

At the risk of alienating some, furled leaders are for those that can't cast. There, I said it.

Your not alienating me. With the limited time I get on the river with little kids it is a surprise I can still catch a few fish.

Nice trip! I fished it two days and enjoyed it very much. Did you fish Savage river in far Western Maryland or Little Gunpowder Falls in Baltimore county? Both look like great tailwater fisheries but Savage river has on average, larger trout and more brookies and even cutties. The cutties in the sa...

I know more about western Maryland as that is where I learned to flyfish. I still go back to the savage but it has been tough with two kids these last couple years. My friend who I went to school with and fish with says the river you are speaking of is ok with small fish. I think it gets pub because...

When is the big dam skated to come down. Seems like it has been talked about for years now.

But it's a nice net, that I won't have a heart attack if it's lost. Back to basics and a simpler form of fishing. Received mine yesterday, should have ordered two, just in case. Thanks again. That's a bear crossing area right there BTW. One was hit on the south bounds side a few years ago, and a tr...

We went through 9 years where we teetered on drought each of those years and now we have had three consecutive decent spawning years. Too soon to see any results of last November's wild brown trout spawn because their YOY are still far too small to hook up. So those of you noticing a rebound of wil...

We went through 9 years where we teetered on drought each of those years and now we have had three consecutive decent spawning years. Too soon to see any results of last November's wild brown trout spawn because their YOY are still far too small to hook up. So those of you noticing a rebound of wil...

I fished it between 7-830 with 14 and 18 sulphurs assorted Caddis and giant, what I assume we're March browns in the 10ish size. Only rise I saw was the rainbow I caught. I know the electroshocking a few years ago was not good, but was hoping it would recover.

The numbers of wild browns has really taken a hit in the last 10 years. I have fished at the smoke rise gate a few evenings in the last couples weeks. My best catch was a holdover rainbow that made his way up there. I guess the low water years did a number number on the wild trout numbers. Some exce...

There is nothing I hate more than Putting on some form of waders.

Jaybird wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 11:13 am

Great for nymphing , blasphemous for dry flies . ( Can it be done yes , but real dryfly guys will talk about you behind your back )

Most furled leaders have tippet rings on them.