Where are the brown trout?

[Capt. Lou]

I fully concur with Dave B’s assement of NJ trout programs .
I spend over 75 days a year on NJ’s trout waters and probably another 20 on PA. ‘S waters !
All these native browns that appear on this site are not native but just stocked fish period .
Many I’m sure come from privately stocked waters , I’ve personally only caught 3 browns in public waters in the past several seasons while hundreds of bows to 9#’s
If there were a solid holdover or native browns all the water I cover I would get more than 3 !
When a buddy invites me to fish club water then it produces whatever they stock
be it browns , bows ,brooks or occasionally tigers etc .
I never intentionally target native brokkies that live in specific trout streams too fragile u end up killing them !