A fisherman contacted our web site http://www.troutprostore.com/ requesting information about trout fishing in New Jersey and pennsylvania. I have some friends who have fished the Pennsylvania waters and just one friend who had fished the New Jersey waters near the Deleware Water Gap. Of course, I have emailed them for more individual information and I am waiting for a reply. In the meantime, I have discovered that a lot of factors have combined to make New Jersey a great trout fishing success story. Many of the streams that course down and through the steep, wooded terrain of the Ridge and Valley and Highlands regions, as well as the rolling plains of the Piedmont, provide the cold water habitat that trout need. New Jersey has over 500 miles of streams with water quality capable of supporting trout reproduction and/or adequate for the year-round survival of trout.
NJ has a hatchery at the Pequest Trout Hatchery and Natural Resource Education Center for raisnig and releasing more than 600,000 brook, brown and rainbow trout each year. In addition, there are many streams that support naturally reproducing populations of trout, mostly brook and/or browns. About a dozen streams have rainbows. Only 3 streams, Flanders Brook, VanCampens Brook and the Mulhockaway Creek, support all 3 species of wild trout.
A 20 lb. brown trout of your dreams wasn't caught until 1995 in Round Valley Reservoir...... and I thought that the only trout in NJ were in an aquarium!
For details on the many streams in NJ, please go to Regional Trout Fishing Locations; and for the New Jersey License and Regulations please click on Trout Fishing License. Regulations.
If there are some NJ fishermen out there who are willing to share information about NJ trout fishing please contact us.