Welcome to fly fishing and the site. Having been a beginner not too long ago, and living in Princeton by the Stony Brook, I thought I should lend a hand. First, the Stony Brook only has trout for a couple of weeks during stocking periods. The trout get taken out pretty quickly and those not...

The Ken Lockwood Gorge was packed yesterday with people fishing and people "hiking." My guess is if government administrators saw the crowds, they would shut it down. The fishing was really good though. I had a lot of trouble locating fish through the winter, but the recent rains created...

Thanks for all your work on stream restoration! That section is a real wasteland right now. How long would you guess before the restored section becomes productive?

Hit the TCA around 1 and it was pretty quiet, but those of us there were pulling in a bunch of trout. I used a mop fly with an indicator and was again amazed that it caught a ton of fish. Attached is a pic of the chewed up fly and one of the fish. There was some activity on top. I failed to...

Took a day off to try some mid-week fishing at the Gorge and was not disappointed. The river was high and off-color so I tried a junk fly I saw on the GST site -- a bright green mop fly (the only material is the nub from a mop glove used to wash cars). I fished it behind a cone-head olive...

Found a ring at the Gorge parking area, PM me if you lost one. Also, caught this fish with a sore on its back. I thought it might be diseased, but it fought pretty hard so I concluded it was a heron survivor and put it back. If you think I guessed wrong, let me know and I will report where I...

Do people still care about fishing reports on this site? Yesterday I went out for the first time this year and caught this rainbow at the Gorge on a #18 Rainbow Warrior trailing a yellow Blood Dot egg. The fish was very deep in a slow pool. I hooked another one later but it came off because I...

Hit the Pequest at about 4 pm on Monday. The water was a little high and off color so I thought I might be fishing streamers. As I got into the river, however, there were a few fish rising, so I put on a Royal Wulff as an indicator (for my failing eyes) and a #14 Matt's Sulphur Emerger...

Thanks for the correction. Will it go away?

Tried fishing the Gorge today. There was didymo everywhere. It was really bad by the trestle. It made fishing tough, covering my fly with slime on every cast. I have been fishing there for only a couple of years, so am interested in knowing whether this is something you have seen before and...

Fished the Gorge today. There were some trees down thanks to Sandy. You have to climb over a couple just to get past the upper parking lot. Water was a bit off color. Caught one brown in the morning, pictured below, on a #16 Copper John. 4 hours later caught a small brown on a #18 pumpkin...

I guess I haven't caught enough to feel comfortable balancing then on my fingers. I'm used to lipping bass. Trout are damn slippery!

Fished the Point Mountain TCA today. Caught mostly leaves but landed this Brown on a #20 Zebra Midge. Hooked 2 on a #18 grey RS2 but could not net them. It was very crowded on the stream but most cleared out by 2.

Went to Point Mountain TCA on the Musky for the first time ever on Friday afternoon (I usually fish the KLG or elsewhere on the south branch and tried the Pequest earlier this winter). It was warm and bugs were hatching everywhere -- clouds of midges, stoneflies, some dark colored caddis and...

C&R'd on the SBR just north of the <acronym title="Ken Lockwood Gorge">KLG</acronym> on a #16BHGRHE. HNR! (Happy New Year!)

The dirt road from the upper lot near the Hoffman's Crossing bridge to the handicap pier is closed (washed out). You can walk in, but no cars can go through. The only way to get to the lower part of the Gorge by car is where River Road crosses Cokesbury road (639) then you go past the private...

I fished the lower part of the Gorge last weekend and caught some stockies on an egg (yellow/salmon Blood Dot) and streamer (black wooly bugger) tandem rig fished deep. The water was high and off color. I think it has come down a little since. In lower clearer water, I've had success with...

Welcome to the Princeton Area. Since this is a fly fishing site, I am hoping others don't mind that I am passing on this information (really no secret to locals in any event). On Lake Carnegie there is a walkway bridge where the Millstone River goes under the D&R Canal into Lake Carnegie...

I actually first tried driving up 513 up to Long Valley to find some access points to the river. Other than the parts that are right next to the highway, none looked real friendly, so I went back to the Gorge because (i) I knew there was parking on public property and (ii) I knew that it was OK...

Fished the Gorge last night. I was surprised by the number of people on a Wednesday. River was a little high and brownish. Fished a Euro three nymph rig with a big green Czech nymph as an anchor, a Copper John up front and a sulphur emerger trailing. Caught some bows and a brown, mostly on the...