[AndyS]

A few Brown Trout were encountered after the stocking in the lower Raritan. I know FazzEddie had a run in with a few. About 2 years after the Brown Trout stocking I had a woman contact me and F&W because she saw a large Brown Trout being retained in South Bound Brook during the normal closed season for most streams, around late March. She is a fly fisher person and knows her fish well but did not know that there was no closed season for trout on the lower section of the river. She said it was a very large healthy fish. There were scatted reports, but nothing confirmed.
A fall on the Raritan river with "normal" flows like a few years ago was lights out for the "holdover" trout. This past fall was a bust as it never stopped raining. Use the search bar at the top of the page and type in Raritan river and you will see.