CNBNEWS Hunting and Fishing: Spring Season Trout Stocking Ends in NJ

This Friday, May 24th, marks the end of spring season trout stocking but it\’s just the beginning of fabulous late spring and early summer trout fishing. Most trout anglers miss out on some of the best trout fishing of the year by not fishing after stocking ends. They stop fishing at a time when many trout waters have more fish in them now than when the season started. How can that be? Every week more trout have been added to stocked waters but fewer are taken out because angler survey data shows that 70% of New Jersey trout anglers release most, if not all of the trout they catch. 

Another little known reason why streams are teaming with trout this time of year is the stocking of tens of thousands of extra