Fall Trout

Returning home for Thanksgiving last week, I fished for trout for the first time in months.  The first two days, I had no luck at the Ken Lockwood Gorge.  The third day, I fished my favorite small wild trout stream, and lost 2 native brookies and landed 2.  My last full day home, I went on a guided trip with my father on the South Branch of the Raritan.  I ended up landing one 20+ inch rainbow, and my father, a first time fly fisherman caught 4 all around the size of mine, and one even bigger!  All in all it was a great vacation, and great fishing, and I look forward to returning to the streams in a couple weeks when I'm back in NJ for Christmas and New years.

native brookies

big bow on the SBR

native brook trout stream