The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-04-03
TROUT SEASON OPENS
IN JERSEY APRIL 1ST.

With the waters of the State re-
stocked with game fish as never be-
fore, and offering the finest of sport
to anglers, native and nonresident,
the season for catching brook trout,
rainbow trout, brown trout and land
locked salmon will open in New Jer-
sey on April 1. In every county that
has available waters, thousands Of
trout reared at the State Fish Hatch
cry, at Hackettstown, have been plant
ed by the Fish and Game Commits
sion, which has promised to make
New Jersey a fisherman's paradise
and its every stream a source of food
supply.
A new fish to most Jerseymen this
season will be the rainbow trout, one
of the handsomest and gamiest of
American fishes. The rainbow will
flourish in many South Jersey streams
where the brook trout have failed to
survive. While many other States
are restocking their waters merely
with trout fry, New Jersey has adopt
ed the plan of distributing only two
! year-old trout and the fish put out
during the last Fall measured from
seven to thirteen inches in length. At
this size the trout, when put in the
streams and ponds were able to pro-
tect themselves from natural enemies;
were old enough to spawn in their new
environment during the Winter and
every one that rises 10 the lure of
an anglers bait or fly this Spring will
be a legal catch in size, the law pro-
hibiting the taking of trout under six
INCHES in length.
Under the new hunting and fishing
llaw, every angler must take out a IL
cense to fish in the inland waters of
the State above normal tide limits.
Resident males a procure the COM
bination license, permitting them both
to hunt and fish, at a cost of $1.15.
No license is required for males un-
der IA years of age nor for females.
Nonresident and alien males over IA
years of age, who do not wish to take
out a combination hunting and fishing
license at a cost of $10.15, can pro-
cure a license for angling only for a
flee of $2.15. Fishing and hunting IL
censes a be procured from county
or municipal clerks or from a fish and
game warden; and the law requires
that the license card be carried on the
person of the holder when fishing or
hunting in the State.
Delaware river anglers need pay no
license. A copy of a letter sent out
by the Board of Fish and Game Com
m%issioners says: "No fishing license
is needed to fish in the Delaware riv-
er throughout its entire length, and no
license is required to fish in the tide
waters of the State. Tidewaters
mean the extreme limit of a normal
tide. Below that point the law will
not be enforced, but it will be enfor-
ced above the extreme point of Init
reached by normal tide"
The wide distribution of trout dur
ing the last year will bring good fish
ing close to the home of anglers in
nearly every part of New Jersey.
While South Jersey, through the in
PRODUCTION of the rainbow trout, will
share largely in the sport, the major
ity of trout streams and ponds are,
of course, located in the billy counties
above Trenton. Both brook and rain
bow trout, together with ~land-locked
salmon, with which the State is exper-
imenting, will be found in these
streams.
Twenty-Five trout constitute a days
legal bag limit. The trout season
closes July Is. The open a in
inland waters for the various variet-
les of bass, crappie and pike perch is
June Is to November 80; for pike and
pickerel, May 20 to November 80.
The season for catching game fish in
Delaware river and bay and in their
tributaries where tide GIBBS and flows
opens June Is and closes December l.