Super-Sized Trout Soon Coming To Warren County Waters Near You

It's a-fishin' season and some say there's no place better to catch a nice piece of fish than the northeast.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish and Wildlife will start stocking 16 streams and 21 ponds across the state with more than 20,000 trout from the Pequest Trout Hatchery. The rainbow trout to be stocked will measure between 14 and 22 inches and weigh in at anywhere from 1.5 to 8 pounds.

The stocking will begin on October 11 with streams and then continue the following week in ponds and lakes, including portions of the Pequest River, Pohatcong Creek, and Musconetcong River in Warren County. Paulins Kill, Pequest, Big Flat Brook, and Wallkill rivers in nearby Sussex County also be receiving stock. According to the Pequest Hatchery, New Jersey also boasts two Trophy Trout Lakes, one of which nourished a 32-pounder, currently the state record.

For more information on where to catch these stocked trout, visit the Division of Wildlife site. Here is a list of areas in Warren County where trout will be stocked:

Beaver Brook (Warren) in Hope

Blair Creek in Hardwick and Blairstown

Brookaloo Swamp in Hope

Buckhorn Creek in Harmony

Columbia Lake in Knowlton

Furnace Brook in Oxford

Furnace Lake in Oxford

Jacksonburg Creek in Blairstown

Lopatcong Creek in Lopatcong Township and Phillipsburg

Merrill Creek Reservoir in Stewartsville

Mountain Lake in Liberty Twp.

Musconetcong River in Hackettstown, Beattystown (Washington Twp.), Penwell (Mansfield Twp.), Mansfield / Lebanon, Franklin, and Allamuchy

Paulins Kill River in Blairstown/ Hardwick

Pequest River in Belvidere, White, Oxford, and Liberty

Pohatcong Creek in Washington, Greenwich, and Pohatcong

Pophandusing Creek in Belvidere

White Lake in Hardwick

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