Garden State Trout

Has anyone been fishing the the West Branch Upper Delaware lately ? The Special regulation area in particular. Its the C&R stretch in Deposit . I notice the fishing hasnt been as good as years past. when I do go. I havent even seen guided drift boats anymore either. I was told that the Cannondale d...

Has anyone been fishing the the West Branch Upper Delaware lately ? The Special regulation area in particular. Its the C&R stretch in Deposit . I notice the fishing hasnt been as good as years past. when I do go. I havent even seen guided drift boats anymore either. I was told that the Cannondale da...

Nice! The Musky also has a few that either come in from the Delaware or wash over the Lake Hopatcong dam some years. They aren't much when it comes to a fight, but they make up for it on the table IMO. Very tasty fish! Yep. It came in like a wet rag. no fight. I was told it taste like lobster ??? I...

been fishing since I was 10 years old. caught my very 1st walleye as a bycatch on the Paulinskill River yesterday.

Ive encountered many wild trout species in the upper Bergen county waters. Its nice to see them thriving in numbers !!!. many fisherman dont knwo where to fish for them. I prefer to keep it that way ;) Yeah, I didn't mention the stream by name for that reason although we only saw one other angler a...

Ive encountered many wild trout species in the upper Bergen county waters. Its nice to see them thriving in numbers !!!. many fisherman dont knwo where to fish for them. I prefer to keep it that way

Drossi wrote: ↑

Mon May 05, 2025 9:43 am

Nice.

TY !!!

Got it and that's the one I thought it was. It's toast BTW. No date yet. thats why I wanted to fish it before it goes down ;) . It looks pretty deep @ the spill way. then quickly shallows out. Typical of a dam's plunge pool. Very deep, but very short in length unlike a healthy pool which will be sh...

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:54 am

Troutman wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:43 pm

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:14 am

Nice fish. Which dam is that?

Sent you a message

Got it and that's the one I thought it was. It's toast BTW. No date yet.

thats why I wanted to fish it before it goes down . It looks pretty deep @ the spill way. then quickly shallows out.

Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:14 am

Nice fish. Which dam is that?

Sent you a message

I took 15 years to fish it. But it finally happened today. started off bad this am. My net unleashes & floats down river. Then my lures get snagged twice. But then then beauty comes chomps on my lure :o . safely released to fight another day. started to fish down river. Then I seen my net. recovered...

46er wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 22, 2025 6:54 am

Plans are in the works to build a shopping center and homes on that property, one of them a Bass Pro Shop.

https://riverton.com/

WOW !!!!!!!

Hope they catch a all the poachers !!!!

cappy wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:04 am

Random question. Is a picture of the front and back of a license on one's phone legal?

I dont know about NJ. But I did this in PA. the wardens there accepted it with no issues. PA also has a bar code so they can scan if they want

mtman wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:08 pm

I agree with not fishing in the heat of the summer, but the fish I expect to catch this time of the year have only been in the river since the fall . And most years I do really well up through Hackettstown.

the drought has effected the trout fishing in the upper sections of the musky imo.

Rockafellow dam on lower SBR? yes Thought I recognized it. I did the budgeting for removal for USFWS and the watershed org several years ago as they were getting Superfund settlement monies for the removal at the time. I do know there was a land preservation that happened first and now the dam can ...

I tried the Musky in Hackettstown yesterday. No fish for me ,but the only other guy I saw had one on a stringer. Fished for about an hour and the wind never really stopped so I left. The highlight of the day was being checked by a CO in the parking lot. Real nice younger guy and we talked for about...

I tried the Musky in Hackettstown yesterday. No fish for me ,but the only other guy I saw had one on a stringer. Fished for about an hour and the wind never really stopped so I left. The highlight of the day was being checked by a CO in the parking lot. Real nice younger guy and we talked for about...