Busted My NJ Trout Cherry

[Skolmann]

I haven’t trout fished in NJ since the late 1970’s when I used to make an opening day trip to Indian Lake in Little Ferry-never caught a thing. I did do a fair amount of trout fishing on the Chattahoochee River when I lived in Georgia in the mid & late 1980’s-caught a good amount of rainbows to 25”s, a few browns to #4 and a handful of brookies.

My son and I made our first NJ trout foray this past Sunday with the help and guidance of 2 friends who have done well this spring. They not only told us the proper tackle and techniques to use but they were kind enough to share a few of there spots. Unfortunately we didn’t catch any. After we went our separate ways, my son and I discovered another spot upstream from the last spot they showed us. Although we didn’t catch (Jason did lose one), we saw several others caught.

We returned tonight and fished downstream from where we were the other day. We each ended up catching two rainbows to 15”s and missing a few bites.

In all honesty, not sure how much freshwater/trout fishing I’ll be doing but it is a nice change of place as well as nice knowing that I have an alternative to the salt.