Garden State Trout

***Due to low flow conditions in many of our trout-stocked rivers and streams and the long-term forecast not predicting any substantial rainfall over the next 10 days, we have chosen to delay our Fall Trout Stocking for 2024. Lakes and ponds scheduled for October 15 and 16 will be stocked as previously scheduled as water level/temperature will not be an issue. Rivers scheduled for October 8-11 will be postponed 2 weeks to the week of October 21.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/fishing/freshwa ... -schedule/

The problem now is that they must stock to move the 2 year old trout out of the raceways at Pequest regardless of flows, and they have now lost two additional weeks to get that done and we still have no rains in the forecast. All it means now is that they will be stocking into even lower flows than before, so they gained nothing. Should mean more fish through winter, however. At least that's good news for the C&R anglers.

9 years asking for fall stocking main stem Raritan river, and for 9 years they tell me no !!!