Nice wild brown...
Nice wild brown...
Quick stop after work. Caught this 15"+wild brown.
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Re: Nice wild brown...
Nice catch for Jersey waters, well done. I'm staying off the WTS's until mid-Nov. Let the fish do their thing in peace.
Stocked fish in the mean time, which has not been bad they put in some large healthy Rainbows.
Stocked fish in the mean time, which has not been bad they put in some large healthy Rainbows.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
Anatole France
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Beautiful wild brown!
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Nice to see you back out there prowling the Wild Trout Streams .
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Awesome! Flows must be good and will stay good with all the rain coming!!
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I'd be more worried about herons & mergansers making easy pickings of trout in shallow water than anglers fishing. One flock of 6-10 mergansers can kill more fish in a day than any angler could accidentally do in a year. Time for the state to consider some management of those mergansers. I suggest spooking them upstream and then capturing them in a net quickly raised above & across the water. They fly low so it should be easy. After that, let some dogs have some fun in a closed cage.
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Agree, staying off the WTS's for a few weeks is just something I do. I have no issue with anyone fishing within the law of the state. I don't see Mergansers on streams as much as I do GBH's. I scare them when I can, but they always come back after I move along the stream. Anyway great fish you caught there.NJAngler wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:42 pmI'd be more worried about herons & mergansers making easy pickings of trout in shallow water than anglers fishing. One flock of 6-10 mergansers can kill more fish in a day than any angler could accidentally do in a year. Time for the state to consider some management of those mergansers. I suggest spooking them upstream and then capturing them in a net quickly raised above & across the water. They fly low so it should be easy. After that, let some dogs have some fun in a closed cage.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
Anatole France
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I have caught my biggest wild browns in the November -March time frame-when the water is colder, the big browns feed in the day time whereas in the spring/summer they tend to feed at night or close to it.
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I once watched a GBH tussle with a 17" wild brown on VCB. I kept trying to get it to drop it but it wouldn't. It would fly a few feet, stop and try to turn the fish to swallow it. It eventually did drop it. I grabbed the brown and released it but not sure survived.