AndyS Got His Trout!

[Jigman13]

Get these ready!

[RWole]

Andy is doing a great job. I will be making alot of noise if they try to remove
Clinton Reservoir from the list.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Plenty of bait in the Raritan as it is. These Trout should fatten up the feeding predators quite nicely. LOL!!!

[JimmyL]

Originally Posted by Lard Almighty

That's about the size of an F11 Rapala, for those interested.

Thought the exact same thing

[AndyS]

I think the State raises extra trout every year, I guess it is good business to have a back-up plan, a "fail-safe" of sorts in place just in case. I guess it is a tough call where to put extra trout when push comes to shove, I am just glad they chose the Raritan river. I don't think we will be seeing any TCA's anytime soon on the Raritan river as it is classified NT (non-trout) waters due to the river getting very warm over the summer months. I do give trout more credit that most when it comes to seeking out thermal refuge. I think brown trout have a better tolerance for warm water than the rainbow trout do.
Speaking of brown trout there were a few sighting of nice brown trout a year and even 2 years after the diseased trout were released into the Raritan river so what I learned about fish is "never say never".
When I see this I really want to push for more clean ups on the watershed. I won't stop asking for fall trout stocking on the 2 mile stretch near Duke Island Park nor the 2 mile extension on spring trout stocking from Somerville down to Manville.

[Billfish715]

Andy, you may be back at cleaning up sections of stream that you already did. Did you see the Raritan today? Very high and very brown! There was "stuff" being washed downstream. It has to wind up on the banks somewhere.
Even the canal looked nasty. Those four inch trout might be in Sayerville by now!

[NorthJerzyG]

Originally Posted by RWole

Andy is doing a great job. I will be making alot of noise if they try to remove
Clinton Reservoir from the list.

Do you fish it for stockies or holdovers? I often wonder if the trout even hold over there? I've seen maybe one or two pics of big browns out of there a while back but I haven't seen or heard of any holdover bows being caught the last few years??

[AndyS]

I posted a few Raritan river rainbow trout photos over the winter of fish that looked like this, you tell me.

[NorthJerzyG]

Sorry, I meant at Clinton Res.......