Super-Sized Trout Soon Coming To Sussex 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 Paulins kill, Pequest, Big Flat Brook, and Wall Kill rivers. 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 Sussex County where trout will be stocked:

Alms House Pond in Hampton

Andover Jct. Brook in Andover

Big Flat Brook in Montague, Sandyston, and Walpack

Blue Mountain Lake in Walpack

Clove Brook in Wantage

Culver's Creek in Frankford

Dry Brook in Branchville

Franklin Pond Creek in Hardyston (Beaver Lake)

Glenwood Brook in Vernon

Lake Aeroflex in Andover Boro

Lake Ocquittunk in Sandyston

Little Flat Brook in Sandyston

Little Swartswood Lake in Hampton

Lubber's Run in Byram

Neldon Brook in Hampton

Papakating Creek in Frankford and Wantage

Paulins Kill River in Sparta, Lafayette, Frankford, and Stillwater

Pond Brook in Stillwater

Saw Mill Pond in Montague

Silver Lake in Hardyston

Stony Lake in Sandyston

Swartswood Lake in Swartswood and Hampton

Trout Brook (Middlebrook) in Stillwater

Wallkill River in Sparta and Hamburg

Wawayanda Creek in Vernon

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