Tiny Trout

[Lard Almighty]

Spent a fun afternoon yesterday at a trout-stocked creek that was LOADED with rainbows. Only issue was, they were remarkably small! I actually had a tough time catching a few over the 9" size limit that I could keep. The fish are much smaller than in years past. Does anyone know anything about why the trout are so small this year?

[DanH]

My guess is since they released almost all of the allocated trout for this year already some may have been a little early with a few weeks left to grow at the hatchery .

Have you done any fishing at your cabin on the lake yet?

[acabtp]

^^ yep i'm pretty sure that's it... missing one or two months of pellet feed

[FASTEDDIE29]

Fish are definitely missing that feeding time at the hatchery. I caught some super dinks in the Passaic a few weeks ago. Perfect bait size in my opinion. :D

[Jigman13]

Lol... rig em up for swordie baits!

[Capt. Lou]

I agree many small trout ! Smaller the previous years for sure !

[Fluken-Around]

I'm fishing both Pa and Nj and the trout in Pa could eat the trout from NJ. Both states had same amount of grow time on fish!! Either Pa is feeding a better quality feed or they just have the science down better. But the rainbows I've been catching in Jersey are super dinks, like said above great river bait!