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Old 10-20-2016, 11:50 AM
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Default Re: Wild Brookie in an urban creek?

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Originally Posted by Mark B. View Post
In the mid 1980’s, @ the urging of the now defunct Toms River Trout Unlimited Chapter, NJDF&W back pack electrofished Toms River in Jackson. The anglers were sure that they observed juvenile, naturally reproduced Brook Trout. Though, they never caught any.

What they were seeing, which we collected, were Eastern Mudminnows. Through the water, they can look trout-like.

They can tolerate low dissolved oxygen & acidic water.
i'm going with this^
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