Today at the Gorge
 

One of my good customers- Dave Allen with a super sweet rainbow from the Gorge. 6.28lbs, 22.5 inches on a rooster tail. He caught another one just as big; his was released.

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Nice Fish, thanks

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WOW, giant rainbows being caught all over the place. Great fish!!!

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Recently decent amounts of young of the year native rainbows have been found in the gorge....I wish this water would become year round NO KILL...New native trout, means stockies succesfully spawning....Native browns have been a fixture for years but good numbers of native rainbows is a super promising thing...Nature will find a way, anglers and regulations just have to give mother nature a fighting chance to replenish herself....Proper handling of released fish would also make a HUGE difference....


If more everyday anglers thought about our fishing resources future instead of living in the NOW, our fisheries would flurish beyond our dreams.....

Stronger regulations would help but stronger enforcement would guarantee a better future for this (in my opinoin) struggling natural resource...

Just my 200 cents:eek:

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Come to the open house at Pequest in the spring and say the same thing Bigfishy. It was a great meeting last year, they do listen.

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On the topic of stronger regulations, I'd like to see a 1 trout greater than 15" for all of the fall stocked waters.

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You know me, if I'm not fishing I'm writing letters to F&G. Attend meetings, contact T.U., find channels to get the point across.

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/contactform.htm

They do listen. Come to Pequest for the spring meeting.

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they should do equal fall and spring stocking so fish can holdover and possibly spawn. I agree totally w the no kill and larger minimums, theres no reason NJ shouldnt have more native trout, its a shame cause there are lots of deeper pools for them to get into to survive thru the summer months.

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I think they do a commendable job but stronger enforcement entails additional resources and the state won't do it. I mean it wasn't that long ago state parks were at risk of being shut down. :(

I do think if they regularly ticketed shore anglers for fishing without a license they could rake in some cash quickly. At least that's my theory with how many numbnutz I've seen at Round Valley fishing without one every summer.

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The size and bag limits are fine on trout,if they reduced them less liscenes will be sold and less and smaller fish will be stocked.All 3 breeds of trout are producing fine in the garden state,more trout then you know hold over and they become smarter.