Fall trout stocking:

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by catfishonthelake

Thanks goodness. Need those trout to fatten up the muskies in a couple waters I frequent.

Lol nice...

[Capt. Lou]

When ur counting on one hatchery to supply just about all ur trout for the entitre states stocking then someone should have been up on the hatcheries
possible weak points!
This pro active management style not reactive should have been followed to prevent this disease from occuring or at least stemming its huge impact on trout its now having.
Im not hindsighting anyone , just wondering why this disease was not prevented or at least controlled to a better degree.
The NJ hatcheries record is exemplery on all fronts until this occurence, I cannot believe all those managers were not up to speed on something as important as disease prevention or control to mitigate some of this impact on the states fish.
I buy out of state license since I'm a PA resident & will contuine to do so,Ive always felt its worth the extra few bucks since many prime streams r close by.
Summing it up Ive had a great year since angling pressure way down, so im not personally upset, just wondering can this happen again & perhaps be wider spread or R proper steps being taken to curtail this in the future?
I know money is a constant issue but if a small increase in license fees would help I would ante up no ?'s asked!!

[jimcnj]

Originally Posted by jimmythegreek

theres still lots of trout in the rivers even tho the stocking was very light. They shouldnt bother and dump em all in RV and MC to fatten up. Forget the trout stamp complainers, I buy a license for myself and my girl w trout stamps every year and havent fished for them in years. I just imagine the young kid catching a trout and the smile on their face, thats worth the 20 bucks to me anyday

Same. I'm going to buy the stamp anyway. My daughter caught one trout on opening day and it was worth it.

[Michael82929]

Their is a reason they are releasing the 9 inch trout into the water.

Most likely to make room since they probably need to mass produce fish now so they can allot for the next three years to replenish the brood stock.

Since these fish have already been in the hatchery, they are probably looking to get every strain out of the runways just in case you have a sleeper fish with disease not to spoil "the bunch"

Just an opinion.. not fact but can look into it...

[Dave B.]

The main reason they're releasing 9" trout is because that's all they have. These fish are from last fall's eggs and they've been able to accelerate their growth a bit via tight rearing controls (i.e. population densities in the raceways, temp/flow/O2 levels, etc) and a bit of extra feed to achieve the 9" length in time for the fall stocking.
These fish will grow rather quickly once in the streams, and as others have stated will not only provide some sport this fall but as well many will holdover and grow to provide additional action come spring.

On top of all that I can assure you in no uncertain terms that there are still plenty of trout left in the major waters from this spring! I've been fishing the Flatbrook, Paulinskill, Musky and even the Pequest a time or two and all have ample quantities of mighty nice sized spring rainbows still swimming around in them. Many of those fish have already grown to 14-15+ inches and have become damn hard fighters!
Even the S.Br.Raritan has trout a-plenty still swimming around as Andy has proven so many times this summer with the pics he's posted!
With the addition of these fall stocked fish the autumn trouting ought to be pretty damned good in my humble opinion! Get out there and get ya some in between chasing those toothy Esox critters and stalking whitetails and turks!

[liveitup1.75liter]

Im 100% cool wit the state fillin up my outdoor bait tanks!!! Especially if we get that ice again this year.. chow up chow up toothy monsters.. give the state a break ppl they been keepin us in excellent fishing in all my years.. could they have done things diff.. yea.. but unforeseen probloems is reffered to as life.. no one else predicted it but now wanna say they should have done this or that..really ladies..