Sea Run Brown Trout Program Information

[Mark B.]

Here I go again, for the umpteenth time, giving you the facts,.......that will only be ignored or forgotten:


There’s really no extra cost in raising surplus trout,….we have them every year,….as our hatchery’s insurance policy.

If there is a need, we will stock them in our inland waters,…………and, if we need forage for warmwater fish @ Hackettstown the muskies, etc. there get a nice treat.

We just don’t stock surplus trout in our inland waters, if there is no need. As, you can overstock those waters, to their detriment.

So, we put them in the Trout Maintenance classified tidal freshwater Manasquan R. where, they can remain & holdover (unlike the tidal freshwater Raritan R.) ,……or if the numbers of trout causes too much competition for forage, they can head out to the brackish water,……fatten up,…….& maybe return to freshwater one day.

Sea runs are one of the wariest fish on earth, & not easily caught. If you fish for them “a few times”,…..odds are you are not going to catch one.