Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-26
SEASON FOR TROUT
FISHING IN JERSEY
WILL BEGIN FRIDAY
Legal Opening Day in This
State Is Set for
April IS
SHORT ROD NECESSARY
BECAUSE OF THE BRUSH
BY w. e. MEEHAN
Superintendent Of the Fairmount Park
Aauarfum

Superintendent Of the Fairmount Park
Aquarium.
The front seasop onens in New Ter
GOV noxt E.;5ar ,Lo s-.t 90 ,,r;, 7.
~ "eN' 'uo'' ''o ,'''' W "",
Is an occasion, not as largely capitalized
perhaps as the 18th of April, when
the legal opening day occurs in Penn
sylvania, but, nevertheless, one to which
thousands have been looking forward
to for weeks and preparing for.
Nearly evorv trout stream IN Now
Jersey hollow tbo linz NJ Trentnn fa,,.
on tho Delaware "a n brush fighting ono
in which there are comparatively few
places where av cnn bn used only
the bomelv worm or "barnvard hackle." ;"
as it is facetiously called, can be used
To good effect
Iirow;so th, ,.,,, - u.,oro,,r 6,
,oamm .hot '"s prusn . - s.nv.aS .L
foot Ionn ,a"U oon % ho ,sod o rE ;th onn nnn oone
cot XS;.t y uoJ 80 ~. ',s,'ai ,anatb
IL would a hn r,oIi u;oh ;,nnoss;hio tn to go,
~ ~ wouLd " wen nlsh .ihpossipie 10 Eec
sUuSn st.on s;1n Sn' ans "a tu'nes ~ ,ino
=. thn ',uv' ,.nto VI et5 ~ VIC" " se' 'n' ''n'
III ''' ""''' a''e' "o'o'
Narrow Streams
Most of the streams in soutbern New
Jersey are not only brushv but nav.
row, and what would in Pennsylyania
he terfned snrino runs Monv of those,
are only n few ;nchcs deem with here
and there holes where The water NAV
have a depth of from three TO Eve
feet. notwithstanding this there are
Lts Of trout in MANI NJ tbc brooke
| Some are the native brook trout or
charr, and others are rainbow and
brown, two species Of the true trout,
which the brook trout is not.
The rainbow and brown trout were
an introduced by the New Jersey Fish
~ H~ackettstown o Tho M 70 sirhow eisS is nat;re uir.
OF tbc Pacifc coast and tbo hrown No.
Great britain for its no+ine bomn
| and is the fsh 90 laude,t hy Izaak Wal.
ton, the father of angling
| The brook trout t6c "snecklcd
| beauty" SO colIed hv so,t;mentoi
| writer's. is n native Of the Atlantic coast
region and Is not found indigenous vest
OF the Allegheny mountains and the
connecting ranges leading northward
toward Canada.
AS just stated the brook trout is not
a true trout, although belonging to the
salmon family. Of which the true trouts
also are members. 1t is one of genus
or tribe known as eharr, together with
me lake trout of the East and the
Dolly Warden, trout of the Pacific
| coast.
o-o,.n W,tn ot inc olstinsuishing MARKS sep
a. uls .h .he .h .lue .rou.s rom the charrs
~ tiat T., oht ;,I iorlher nave visible scales
arn "n''. ;, tIr ,nu,I liuai S %u'es on tue charr
tb tho .nn,n v,o'oop.. H. . nc @ paSic to'1r ~ -.
@ Spu.S VII ine .rue .ruu. ~ p'ach
* b, w tna. VI .ne siJ'e VII
the Gharrs or orook trout are crimson !;
Mhien, ny the "ay' Is the meaning OF
'"c "'ru c"arr'
Largest Trout
Exoct rerotionsh;n hou,oror ;s
somcth,no tbat iS nf rocordor,' ;n,o,o,, :,
10 NOS, onalo,s W. thn,' 'n.'' w. Io'
S;ro , 70 lnn''' ;s ,han na' 1ne' mus ue
ti,e ,h 81 81 N'VM 10 Mne'c tneE can caIcll
,.t tnv nnn' Two wei -hho"li waters III
I;,.in Jt.n'n hu" 'c'SoS are Tue nig anu
int'ie Iepahoh. bo'h are proDaoiy
the iarsest trout streams IN that Sec
tion OF the STATE
They have their rise in swamps be
yOnd TunncrSvillc, on the border line of
Gloucester and Camden counties, anC
are In the neighborhood of five miles
long. Like most Of the other streams
these two are heavily overgrown with
bushes, but the hundreds of anglers
have beaten a path along the banks
so that there is neither as much brush
ssghtihg TO reach the waters nor tf
'
Another good trout s'rehm Is the Llt :
tir Mahtua' locally caIlcd latte
Many II starts peyohd "IaSsooro
wlhds through timber ana prush under
1ne eiectrlc railroad near "enonah.
mere are some mighty nice brook trou,
IN thiS stream ana sood supply o'
prowr trout and some rainbowS.
Branches of most of the runs that
empty INTO such ponds; as BlackWood
Hrenlocs; AimonesSeni Diamond glem
Nash and i'orchtown. as well as many
either brook trout or browns or some
| rainbOwS or all three The stream no