“I can’t set them, I see them nibbling on my line but I can’t do it,” said Judy Cruts who has been fishing for trout for sixty years.
The program, held by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, lets 25 fishermen, 65 or older, fish in the stocked education pond at the hatchery. Rainbow trout 10 inches and up are stocked in the spring and fall. “As people age, it may be harder for them to access their favorite streams, but here there are stairs down to the water’s edge, an easily accessible fishing platform, and wide-open banks,” added Byrne.“This is gorgeous, this is beautiful,” said Al Brintz who, with his fishing buddy Ernie Fletcher, enjoyed the sunshine and reeling in some nice-sized fish.
“I am the only one who has not gotten one,” lamented Cruts more than halfway through the two-hour fishing session.
leave the fish alone, let them live. All lives matter. Killing is not sport