Spruce Run brown trout:

[Capt. Lou]

The most exciting trout fishery in my opinion was the failed Donaldson bow experiment . There was a couple of years in early sixties that a winter run would occur . Not huge fish but many in. 15 to 18" class.
Once this went away the trout fishery barely existed & warm water fishery took over to this day.
I believe several of state pike records came out of their in the early years . Good bass fishing for awhile as well , but never a trout go to spot for me !
Once RV filled this became the trout fishery for many.
In those days GL & LH were also decent big trout producers .

[AndyS]

But yet they throw trout in every scum hole duck pond from High Point to Cape May but not Spruce Run, just sayin'.

[Capt. Lou]

Andy nothing to do with Spruce Run per se , just a lot to do with selling licenses!
Access is primarily boat type fishery where many fisherman will not fish from shore.
So to get the biggest bang for the license dollar a smaller body of marginal water gets the fish !
It's hurts me as well since I love to pursue streamwise outsize trout!
Covered many miles this spring to get two over. 5#'s , one NJ & one PA my home waters.ii

[Super]

They stock channel cats, pike, and wipers in Spruce Run. Those fish are better suited for that water. Back when they stocked 1,200 trout in that lake, it still wasn't a great trout fishery.

BTW, nice fish.

[jimmythegreek]

I havent spent alot of time on SR, just been there once in July, but the thermocline in the reservoir was NUTS, I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. between 8-10 feet down was was the heaviest band I ever saw on my sonar. Below that just nothing, empty water with no O2 for the feesh, IDK how the trout would holdover, Im sure theres a few spots w some springs they can hang onto, but how would they get food down there in the form of shiners/herring? Id guess they could eat the crustations on the bottom like others do but how many can hold over?

[AndyS]

They stock trout in some duck pond in Edison, do the trout hold over in there, just sayin'.

[bubbasdad]

Originally Posted by AndyS

They stock trout in some duck pond in Edison, do the trout hold over in there, just sayin'.

Hey! Thats my home water!
just kidding....personally think its a bit of a waste to through them in there, too, especially in the state that lake is currently in...

[420*NightCrawler]

Originally Posted by AndyS

I wonder why the State scratched this lake off the list for trout ? It got to the point an independent group was going to pay for brown trout on their own and stock them with the States permission. Lake Musconetcong gets trout though

Really, man? I'm all proud of my brown trout I picked up in LH fishing from the dock yesterday, and you go and post that beast? Just kidding, well done . It looks like you got about 6" on the trout I caught.

[crewchief2]

Nice.... And here we go Rangers, here we go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!