any trout fisherman here

[catfish hunter]

I know most guys enjoy the salt water but I always enjoy a nice quite stream at sunrise ,who here trout fish's and how did you make out last year ,I had a great season ,I fished around 2-3 days a week for them and caught a ton of fish w/ alot of breeders

[shadyvito]

Down here on this end of Jersey trout gets stocked in the lakes and only one river (Maurece in Salem)which basically runs through a city.  It just doesn't feel like trout fishin.  I go for trout when I'm down in Nashville.  Let me know a couple good spots for trout that isn't too far from Glouster.  Oh yeah, where did you catch that goldie?

[robsrodnreel]

vito, you got to make it up north. alot of people have some bad things to say about jersey and our outdoors, but we have some wonderful places in our state. take a night and camp out at stokes or the gap. youll have wild trout streams along with stock streams and stocked lakes at your finger tips

[Chris n]

With limited time to trout fish I did ok...I caught I think 15 trout in the spring and got my first ever limit..in 30 minutes before my baseball game ...in the fall I caught three of the nice 14"+..lost one for the winter trout stock but I did good..only my third serious year

[catfish hunter]

nice fish

[shadyvito]

Here is the first trout I caught on a fly that I tied.  I got it on the Caney River outside Nashville with a black beadhead wooly bugger.  It was samall but it was mine!

[catfish hunter]

nice,there are some great streams in nj you should try them

[shadyvito]

vito, you got to make it up north. alot of people have some bad things to say about jersey and our outdoors, but we have some wonderful places in our state. take a night and camp out at stokes or the gap. youll have wild trout streams along with stock streams and stocked lakes at your finger tips

Can you do me a favor and get me some info on where to go to fish for some wild trout. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[robsrodnreel]

shady, there are about 36 wild trout streams that are listed in the fishing compendium from the state. other than that, you just have to research on your own. there are many to be found!!!!!  i myself only know of a few that arent "listed", but there are a bunch of them!!!

[jerseejim]

If you live in South Jersey, I find it easier to fish in South East PA. (Ridley Creek, Pickering Creek, Valley Creek, ect...) From Williamstown I can make it to these streams withins 35 minutes. The only draw-back is the out of state license will cost I believe $60 dollars +/-. There is some nice fishing though over in PA.

Catfish- Nice Palomino.

[catfish hunter]

thanks

[shadyvito]

I used to fish Marsh Creek in Downingtown back in the day.

[brijones1]

I usually trout fish a least once a week, but when the season starts I will go whenever I get a chance.  I go for Steelhead quite often as well.  I caught this one in Erie on Elk Creek.  One of many fish, if you plan on fishing for Steelhead don't even bother going to NY because the average run for the year is around 6,000 and in the PA smaller tribs is around 50,000 that return each year.

[Hotrod]

Nice Fish!!..

And Welcome to the site.

Rod

[shadyvito]

What are your favorite flies to use here in Jersey?

[brijones1]

Here are the dry flies I use for PA and NJ and their sizes

Little Black Stonefly size 14-16
Blue Quill 16-18                           
Hendricksons 12-14                           
Red Quill 14-16                           
Blue Winged Olive 14-20                       
Gray Fox 12 - 14                           
Light Cahill 14-16   
March Brown 12                               
Sulphur 16-20                         
Tan, olive, brown caddis 14-18                         
Green Drake 10                         
Brown Drake 10                         
Trico 20-24
Quill Gordan 14-16                         

[brijones1]

It is also good to have some terrestrials such as:  Ants, gnats, beetles ect...

As far as Nymphs I love anything with a beadhead:  Princes 12-18, Hares Ears 14-18, Pheasant Tails 16-18

And regular nymphs:
Pheasant tails 16-22
Olive and Black hares ears 14-18
princes 14-18
brassie 20-22
various midges 14-20
black, brown, golden stones 10-12
red, brown san juan worms 12-18

Streamers:
Woolybuggers brown, black, dark green, 10-14

wet flies:
see dry flies and sizes I usually have a couple of all the dry flies I use

[catfish hunter]

for some great prices on flies check out robs rod and reel from this site

[shadyvito]

Thanks guys, you never dissapoint.  I did check out Rob's and he had a great site, but I like to tie my own.  It seems to relax me.