Freshwater Fishing?

[OldPiney Woods]

Nobody freshwater fishing in NJ? Everybody too busy hunting?Where are the trout pictures from the North Jersey trout streams? I can’t seem to bring myself to make the trip to North Jersey from Burlington County anymore. It was too nice a day not to fish. So I did some slumming closer to home. Hit the D&R Canal in Princeton. Got 9 pickerel and one bass. They were not interested in any hard or soft plastics. Only old time spoons in red and white daredevil and firetiger. Nothing big but here at least are some pictures.

Edited October 25, 2023 by OldPiney Woods

[Rusty]

Nice fish!  

[mike033089]

My dad got a nice pickerel today in the Delaware river right by the welcome center off route 80. Pulled some fall stockers out last weekend also.  

[Bonefreak]

I’m fishing Saturday in my clubs last regular season bass tournament at Manasquan reservoir. Won last 2 tournaments at spruce run n Carnegie. Going for the 3-peat!!  Then we have our Classic on 11/5!!

[Buck154]

Any fishing is good fishing. Nice

[jumpthestring]

Been hitting the Paulinski'll and the Flat Brook on the weekends.  got one and only seen 2 caught. the stocking of fall trout this year. is awful. i crushed them last year, this year its Seem's they didn't throw many in.  

[Bucksnbows]

32 minutes ago, jumpthestring said:

Been hitting the Paulinski'll and the Flat Brook on the weekends.  got one and only seen 2 caught. the stocking of fall trout this year. is awful. i crushed them last year, this year its Seem's they didn't throw many in.  

They stocked the same numbers. Water is higher this year so the fish are spread out. Pequest trout numbers are typically within 1-2% of previous years, year after year. 

[Gman]

Buddy and I fished Flat brook last Sunday, I caught one wild brookie, he got nothing.  Water was surprisingly low considering all the rain.  Saw a couple other guys they also had caught nada. 

[BowhunterNJ]

Nice catch!

[mike033089]

3 hours ago, jumpthestring said:

Been hitting the Paulinski'll and the Flat Brook on the weekends.  got one and only seen 2 caught. the stocking of fall trout this year. is awful. i crushed them last year, this year its Seem's they didn't throw many in.  

I hit the Paulinskill last weekend with a buddy in the obvious spots over a few miles and didn’t get a nibble. Until we hit the last spot and we got 3 in 5 mins. All decent size.   The day they stocked though it looked like opening day all Along the river. Maybe a lot were kept already.  

[OldPiney Woods]

Back at it again today. D&R Canal in the Princeton area. Another beautiful Fall day to be outdoors. Caught 7 pickerel and two bass today.

[JD48]

Nice going

[CapeCod]

Awesome congrats👍 👍

Any fishing is good fishing. Last year my son and I researched how to debone pickerel for consumption. After viewing some YouTube videos. We caught 2 x-large sized pickerel during the only 2 days of safe icefishing we had nearby. Turned out to be some of the best fried fish fingers we ever had. I wouldn’t recommend this with smaller sized pickerel. 
Jumbo pickerels better beware going forward from now on 😋 

Fish in pic hit the orange depth weight on the way down. Took the line out of my hands. Freshwater is waaaayyyyy more exciting on the ice!!!! 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2023 by CapeCod

[electricstart]

Nice

[mazzgolf]

I'm going tomorrow... it's too hot to hunt. It was waterfowl week, too, down here in the south... only got out a couple times but didn't see many birds. Was going to go out for ducks tomorrow but it's going to be 60 degrees at first light, 70 by 10am... with blue skies. That is NOT waterfowl weather -- it's fishing weather!

Kinda sucks this warm weather. Need it to get cold. Haven't deer hunted a single time this fall season, and permit season starts tomorrow already.