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Today has been nothing but a bad day for me, then my last evening class today got cancelled so my buddy and I decided to go out for a little fishing...been putting in a lot of hours on the fly rod, and I found this nice ledge spot that looked good....a few casts in I hooked my first fish (river fish, caught one nice one in a pond last week) i then lost my only fly they were hitting...didnt get one more hit after that...still an awesome trip...I am hooked for life!!!


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[up] congrats on ur first fly rod fish. but are you sure that thing is wild? dont really look it to me. sorry to break ur heart, i been catching many stocked ones like that this yr (all fins, smaller than usual, less beat up, decent color, etc)
 
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very nice! there's some points!
 
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Awesome congratulations. It's an awesome feeling. I remember when I got my first wild trout on the fly. It's a memory that you will never forget. If you like catching wild trout you should go to the Ken Lockwood Gorge which is self sustaining section of the South Branch of the raritan. Although I have never caught a wild rainbow I have caught some beautifully colored wild brookies.
 
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Well in the picture it looks a little different, when I actually caught him he wasnt like shiny like that, he had a deep deep pink streak down the middle of him, and his dots, those dark dots were so deep, ive never seen it before...in the picture it looks just like a normally stocky, idk why, flash or something maybe? but he looks a lot different when i caught him....and i dont really mean wild as i meant stream bred, I am not sure if he would be wild lol
 
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jcol, i taught my sons to fly fish at age 10. i took them to the little lehigh river in allentown next to the old hatchery. its located west of 78 off cedar crest blvd just up stream from dorney park. trout were raised by a private group and released into the river thru a pipe. this is a fly fishing stretch. it exposed them to 20" fish and landing them in moving pocket water conditions. it you try this first i have a better place to let you know about.
 
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Great job, John! As I mentioned on the other fishing site, that would be one of last late summer's cull of more than 40,000 small rainbows out of the Pequest hatchery into the Musky. They still had their fins when they were stocked nearly 9 months ago and they fight more like wild fish, often jumping numerous times.

We are catching tons of them this spring which tells me that "put and grow" works in NJ. Bows do not reproduce in the Musky or its tribs that we know of to date, all are stocked fish of one size or another, but they do holdover very well on this river. For that reason, I've asked the state to give Point Mtn. TCA (now year round TCA) more bows and fewer brookies which don't stick around after a week or so. We've had some big bows in that stretch in past years and now that we have no bait and only 1 fish/day over 15", we can grow some big again in that TCA.
 
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