First KLG outing

[greg s]

So I went for my first fishing outing here last week of April. The water was nice though maybe a little low for this time of year. I always go in at the bottom because it's the closest for me to get here from Moorestown. Walked up a ways and fished a nymph, caddis pupa and a pheasant tail soft hackle wet fly. I caught 2 stocker RB's, 2 browns 1 around 6"s and one around 10, and also hooked and lost 2 larger browns that were 12-13"s. I heard the state is going to start raising brown trout again and I am hoping they do not stock them there. There is a nice wild population there now. I'm sure a few get there from private places upstream or from the Lake Solitude club, but nobody is stocking little fish. I catch browns of various sizes there and have for the last several years now since they haven't been put in by the state. I have fished there for 40 years now, and even in the bad old days there were a few, but it wild fish was a rare catch then. I have also always occasionally caught fingerlings with parr marks there. I still like going, it is the closest place for me to get to for weeknights and to me there is less angling pressure there now than there used to be, it's mostly people walking.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

So I went for my first fishing outing here last week of April. The water was nice though maybe a little low for this time of year. I always go in at the bottom because it's the closest for me to get here from Moorestown. Walked up a ways and fished a nymph, caddis pupa and a pheasant tail soft hackle wet fly. I caught 2 stocker RB's, 2 browns 1 around 6"s and one around 10, and also hooked and lost 2 larger browns that were 12-13"s. I heard the state is going to start raising brown trout again and I am hoping they do not stock them there. There is a nice wild population there now. I'm sure a few get there from private places upstream or from the Lake Solitude club, but nobody is stocking little fish. I catch browns of various sizes there and have for the last several years now since they haven't been put in by the state. I have fished there for 40 years now, and even in the bad old days there were a few, but it wild fish was a rare catch then. I have also always occasionally caught fingerlings with parr marks there. I still like going, it is the closest place for me to get to for weeknights and to me there is less angling pressure there now than there used to be, it's mostly people walking.

The state has no plans to raise browns, FYI. However, to add diversity to the rainbows, they may add palaminos which are still rainbows, of course. There is something about banana fish that anglers love, so give them "diversity" by stocking the same fish species but in a different color is all.

 

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However, to add diversity to the rainbows, they may add palaminos which are still rainbows, of course

Mutant, mutants.

 

[greg s]

The state has no plans to raise browns, FYI.

I got that from the NJ fisheries biologists on a zoom meeting about a month and a half ago

 

[Rusty Spinner]

The state has no plans to raise browns, FYI.

I got that from the NJ fisheries biologists on a zoom meeting about a month and a half ago

Thanks, I'll ask one of them. I wish I read this earlier as I was with two just yesterday on India Brook for a restoration project we are working on.

 

[moosekid]

The state has no plans to raise browns, FYI.

I got that from the NJ fisheries biologists on a zoom meeting about a month and a half ago

Therein lies your issue -- you got your information from fisheries biologists. Scientists are all liberal communists, pushing a globalist agenda. Rusty and I prefer to get our information from sources that galvanize our existing beliefs, rather than enlighten them.

 

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Is it written in the Project 2025 handbook?

 

[greg s]

To clarify, the statement was about getting the disease issue under control and they might be raising them again at Pequest in the future, which didn't seem like it was meant to mean 10 or 15 years. I'm not quoting directly but I definitely heard this in that meeting.

 

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Thanks, I'll ask one of them. I wish I read this earlier as I was with two just yesterday on India Brook for a restoration project we are working on.

Rusty, can you share any details on the India Brook project?

 

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To clarify, the statement was about getting the disease issue under control and they might be raising them again at Pequest in the future, which didn't seem like it was meant to mean 10 or 15 years. I'm not quoting directly but I definitely heard this in that meeting.

Aah, that means NEVER! That quote of yours has been used by Fisheries from the very beginning of rainbows only.

 

[greg s]

Aah, that means NEVER! That quote of yours has been used by Fisheries from the very beginning of rainbows only.

You are probably correct!

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Rusty, can you share any details on the India Brook project?

It's in its infancy stages, but work to be done in India Brook Park down to where Patriots Path crosses that stream in the Borough's park. It began as a road/footpath narrowing project using native trees and now will include invasive plant removal and up to 14 new pools built to help reduce erosion over the right banks near the trail which is allowing the 3/4" stone the Borough uses on the trail (in violation of DEP regs) to enter the stream in high water events.