Stocking
Stocking
So, I believe stocking starts next week....I know Rusty follows the truck around to find fish catchable for him, who else here is a stocking truck chaser....My grand-dad used to chase it in PA, because grandma loved trout!!! I think they taste like shit!!!! If I see it I'll take pictures to let all you meat guys know where to fish!!!!
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Can't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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No need to be the trout truck chaser . I know how to fish for them . Besides they dump them in the same spots for years . If you know the trouts habitats are. Youll be good. Besides Im a 100% C&R person anyway. The only way that I would take a stockie if they somehow die . Then I would just give them to my elderly neighbors to have a meal .
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That's nothing. One year I climbed up onto the tank platform, opened the tank hatch, and czeck nymphed till I got run off by Johnny Big Law.lightenup wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:48 pmSo, I believe stocking starts next week....I know Rusty follows the truck around to find fish catchable for him, who else here is a stocking truck chaser....My grand-dad used to chase it in PA, because grandma loved trout!!! I think they taste like shit!!!! If I see it I'll take pictures to let all you meat guys know where to fish!!!!
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I'm going to go get me a fall stocker holdover this weekend. 6 months in the river on natural food should make them better table fare.CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:38 pmCan't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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I guess I'll have to start fishing the Manville section of the Rartian after they reallocate trout from the Rahway.Drossi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:58 pmI'm going to go get me a fall stocker holdover this weekend. 6 months in the river on natural food should make them better table fare.CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:38 pmCan't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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Just as well purchase some wild caught salmon from Whole foods. Your palate will thank youDrossi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:58 pmI'm going to go get me a fall stocker holdover this weekend. 6 months in the river on natural food should make them better table fare.CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:38 pmCan't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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Anything from Manville down on the S. Branch is a cease pool anyway .....CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:10 pmI guess I'll have to start fishing the Manville section of the Rartian after they reallocate trout from the Rahway.Drossi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:58 pmI'm going to go get me a fall stocker holdover this weekend. 6 months in the river on natural food should make them better table fare.CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:38 pmCan't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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Glad that stocking is coming. I'm getting tired of catching the same old trout.
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You're better of with a big treble and 3 oz. lead weight!!!BiggerThomas wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:33 pmThat's nothing. One year I climbed up onto the tank platform, opened the tank hatch, and czeck nymphed till I got run off by Johnny Big Law.lightenup wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:48 pmSo, I believe stocking starts next week....I know Rusty follows the truck around to find fish catchable for him, who else here is a stocking truck chaser....My grand-dad used to chase it in PA, because grandma loved trout!!! I think they taste like shit!!!! If I see it I'll take pictures to let all you meat guys know where to fish!!!!
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Stocked Fish are gross , wild fish are to valuable to catch just once ..... But on the Rahway River as you know we get a plethora of trouts , which will be harvested at our leisure as we bask in the glow of the Union County waste Incinerator .... The Good living just keeps on rolling in Union County folks ....
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True, but that green glow they give off helps you target your bait/lure/fly right to them on or near bottom.Jaybird wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:23 amStocked Fish are gross , wild fish are to valuable to catch just once ..... But on the Rahway River as you know we get a plethora of trouts , which will be harvested at our leisure as we bask in the glow of the Union County waste Incinerator .... The Good living just keeps on rolling in Union County folks ....
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Power bait and mop flies for everyone!!!!!!Troutman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:15 pmNo need to be the trout truck chaser . I know how to fish for them . Besides they dump them in the same spots for years . If you know the trouts habitats are. Youll be good. Besides Im a 100% C&R person anyway. The only way that I would take a stockie if they somehow die . Then I would just give them to my elderly neighbors to have a meal .
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That salmon is frozen, or wild caught right out of the runs they farm them in...Troutman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:20 pmJust as well purchase some wild caught salmon from Whole foods. Your palate will thank youDrossi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:58 pmI'm going to go get me a fall stocker holdover this weekend. 6 months in the river on natural food should make them better table fare.CheeseburgerFly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:38 pmCan't wait. More people on the water and all of the nice sized holders end up on a stringer.
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I can't speak for Whole Foods, but my Shop Rite always carries both farm raised salmon (Atlantic salmon, often raised around the world) and wild caught salmon, typically from Alaska. You pay more for the wild caught and most people prefer the fattier flesh of the farm (pen) raised salmon, so it is not as popular a seller. Sometimes they get wild char as well. Sometimes frozen, sometimes fresh. My local store seems to be stepping up their seafood game of late.
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I can guarantee you that the char is NOT wild caught..They are big fat liars!!!!!! Wild salmon, they will catch at sea, but most is "refreshed", a fancy word for thawed frozen fish...if the sockeye are running, you will see loads of that. I deal with fish mongers daily, they know what's up!!!!! Now about you chasing stocking trucks, THOSE ARE NOT WILD FISH!!!!Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:47 pmI can't speak for Whole Foods, but my Shop Rite always carries both farm raised salmon (Atlantic salmon, often raised around the world) and wild caught salmon, typically from Alaska. You pay more for the wild caught and most people prefer the fattier flesh of the farm (pen) raised salmon, so it is not as popular a seller. Sometimes they get wild char as well. Sometimes frozen, sometimes fresh. My local store seems to be stepping up their seafood game of late.
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I see some folks on Instagram that would disagree theyer pellet filled trout are absolutely wild .lightenup wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:25 pmI can guarantee you that the char is NOT wild caught..They are big fat liars!!!!!! Wild salmon, they will catch at sea, but most is "refreshed", a fancy word for thawed frozen fish...if the sockeye are running, you will see loads of that. I deal with fish mongers daily, they know what's up!!!!! Now about you chasing stocking trucks, THOSE ARE NOT WILD FISH!!!!Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:47 pmI can't speak for Whole Foods, but my Shop Rite always carries both farm raised salmon (Atlantic salmon, often raised around the world) and wild caught salmon, typically from Alaska. You pay more for the wild caught and most people prefer the fattier flesh of the farm (pen) raised salmon, so it is not as popular a seller. Sometimes they get wild char as well. Sometimes frozen, sometimes fresh. My local store seems to be stepping up their seafood game of late.
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Power bait is for suckers...... :.....lol: I either use spinners barbless single hook or jigs barbless hook also ....Mopflier maybe when I can muster up my fly rod
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Nothing wrong with "refreshed"= flash frozen . Amazing things about technology today . cant feel or taste the difference
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