Big Brown Trout

[RichieFer]

Took a ride over to Verona park for a little bit and managed this beauty last friday. I also hooked into a nice rainbow about the same size but lost it. I cant believe they survived the summer there. Goes to show you some of these ponds actually can hold over fish from the spring. Caught it in a size 2 pink and silver blue fox spinner.

[gwl2oneida]

Wow, that's a solid brown. Nice catch.

[Skunk City]

Wow, very nice!! Verona Park is a sleeper lake for nice Trout and Bass.

Nice brown! Can't believe a trout would survive in Verona Pond for much more than a few weeks. It's not that deep as far as I know and has to get to almost 80 degrees in the summer. How would a trout survive there? I'm not sure what feeds it but most of the time it looks like there's no water flow whatsoever!

Dakota

[Mark B.]

An earlier post of mine on the thread Re: Union County Spots

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In early June, NJDF&W boat electrofished Verona Lake. Searching for any stocked trout that showed signs of furunculosis.

We collected 3 trout. One 12” rainbow w/ suspect lesions, kept & analyzed revealed another more common bacterium. A clean 9” brown & clean 22” breeder rainbow were released.

All of the trout were collected in the southern end (anglers have reported that there is cold water input from the Peckman River & some trout holdover)of the lake. Water temp. @ the middle of the lake was 72F, that day.

Lots of nice size bass & a good population of Golden Shiners. Tons of BIG carp. And, 2 koi,….one of which was 30 lbs. The koi were not returned to the lake.

The biggest surprise,…………..an 18” walleye near the dam.

[Mikey topaz]

Very nice!