Nice Brookie

[ACJR]

Caught this brook trout the other day in public water stream released

[TroutandBucks]

Probably a club stocked fish. Great job on releasing it! 

[JHbowhunter]

beautiful trout!   Looks native or well held-over.  Certainly not stocked by the state, it's been years since the had brookies.

[Buck154]

I miss catching Brookies. By far my favorite trout to catch

[hemlock]

Nice looking fish! 

[The Buschman]

Nice catch ... congrats!

[Integracingsr]

That's a beauty.

[BowhunterNJ]

Nice one, great to see a brookie

[Joeybeets]

Nice one! 

[Bucksnbows]

Nice brookie indeed.  That one is a holdover.  The way you can tell is that the pectoral fin doesn't have the leading edge white to black to orange coloration of a wild trout.  The pectoral fin has grown back from being worn down in the crowded raceway which tells you it has been in the river for a time (holdover).  

[LPJR]

Brookie on a phoebe, nice! 

[rgw]

You should see the browns a friend been catching, the size of them is unreal and they all been coming from what I would call drainage ditches, all native, no stocking any where close, he says you need high murky water to fish them. I went with him a couple years ago when the water was off color and you had to use 2 lb test and hide like you were hunting and caught fish in the teens , these fish blow them out of the water

[Bucksnbows]

3 minutes ago, rgw said:

You should see the browns a friend been catching, the size of them is unreal and they all been coming from what I would call drainage ditches, all native, no stocking any where close, he says you need high murky water to fish them. I went with him a couple years ago when the water was off color and you had to use 2 lb test and hide like you were hunting and caught fish in the teens , these fish blow them out of the water

Big browns love "frog water" so long as it is cold enough.  NJ has some big, wild browns for certain.  

[kmtpr]

Nice!! 

[BillW0323]

Nice catch. Congrats