Native Brookie
This brook trout is apparently a native from the Musconetcong River. What a shame the biologists at Pequest couldn't find a way to start a strain of NJ brook trout from native fish that are breeding in our streams. By the way, this fish was not near a stocking point when I caught it. What fish there were to be caught were not very far from where they were put in. We need a good rain on a stocking day or before to allow the trout to spread out. That's another story.
Enjoy the picture because there are fewer and fewer natives and it doesn't look like the state will be stocking any for awhile or at all.
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