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Originally Posted by acabtp
nice trout!
man i miss the variety of having browns stocked in NJ. i can understand discontinuing brookies to protect the native strains, but weren't they supposed to get back to browns in year 5 after the hatchery outbreak or something? did they ever cover the hatchery raceways to keep birds from bringing disease in again? we're coming up on year 9 now...
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i think the 2023 digest magazine has an article about how the trout hatcheries work. I dont recall reading anything unfortunately about returning the stocked browns. And the aerial photos showed no covers, maybe older photos.
At this rate, I just dont even expect them anymore. Fortunately some browns and even tigers do show up, but it depends on what streams you fish. Such as if it has a bunch of club water.
Im fine with the state not bothering with browns if it means they can churn out more rainbows.
Im more committed to fishing PA now for trout anyways, dont even need to care for stocking when they are all wild fish, and the times i do fish NJ Im satisfied enough with the quality rainbows.
