Re: Wild Brookie in an urban creek?
 

Like this?

Chub...

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Aka Pike Candy!

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Nom nom nom nom... lol

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If i had an idea of where you were maybe it would be understandable. However, nothing surprises me anymore. My buddy has caught rainbow trout in the passaic river miles away from any stocking, and i once saw a monster brown trout caught in the same area. Healthy looking too. But i guess you dont know til you catch it right?

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People are catching redtail catfish in Secaucus, so why the hell not?

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Amen!
+100 to lard!
Njfw released a water quality report a few years back.lists local streams of water was capable of holding native trout. It's been a godsend.
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/cwfmp/53-74.pdf
This is where they say they've seen trout. You can also google your stream and see what it's classified as and what it's demerits are

And yea they stock the Pompton- it flows to the Passaic. It makes for some fun. Watched a pike demolish a stockie I lost by the old a/p McDonald's

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anything is possible for sure, can't argue that!

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Scroll towards the bottom of this: http://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/rules/njac7_9b.pdf

All NJ waters are listed by drainage. They are classified:

TP – Trout Production (trout can reproduce).

TM – Trout Maintenance (trout don’t reproduce, but the water remains cold enough for them to hold over the summer months).

NT – Non Trout (no reproduction, no hold over,…..the water gets too warm in the summer).

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Missed that link. T.y.

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Wow that must have been cool to watch. I have yet to fish the pompton. Any trout in the passaic are def coming from there then.