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January 12, 2021February 24, 2021 natureintoaction

Winter Foraging in New Jersey aka Noshing in a Naked Forest

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You can keep a six-pack of rainbow trout per day currently in NJ's trout season. It's a fun reason to go explore your local rivers. I've been out on the Rockaway, Flatbrook, Musky and So. Branch and kept a few for the smoker.

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You can keep a six-pack of rainbow trout per day currently in NJ's trout season. It's a fun reason to go explore your local rivers. I've been out on the Rockaway, Flatbrook, Musky and So. Branch and kept a few for the smoker.
I'll be sharing Wild Edible Plant Walks M-F the week of April 26th at 4pm. We'll take a look at many of the spring ephemeral wildflowers but focus on eating the invasives and how to show and grow through reciprocity with the landscape. This basket of nettle, garlic mustard, onion grass, mountain mint and magnolia were all harvested from wild gardens that I caretake.
Trout season opened this morning in NJ with a limit of 6 stocked rainbow trout per licensed fisherman per day. It's a sportsman tradition to get out for the 8am opener and embrace the crowds but I avoided much of it with the Ridge and Valley Trout Unlimited Chapter for some catch and release along a semi-private section of the Musconetcong. Later in the day my wife and I harvested limits from an overfull thalweg in the Big Flatbrook. With 500k rainbows stocked there was no rush to catch them.
Thanks to @gregkkoch for capturing the vernal pool party in photographs last evening. The living world is a unique and spactacular marvel and the spring migration of amphibians in our northeastern woodlands offers one of my favorite natural spectacles. The rains brought out Spotted and Jefferson Salamanders as well as Wood Frogs and Spring Peepers in great abundance to mate and lay eggs. Marbled salamander larvae, predacious diving and scavenger beetles, and myriad other macro and micro invertebrates also stirred the water column from top to bottom.
Spring trout season is on in NJ. The truck trout are being delivered to a waterbody near you soon. I visited a year round trout conservation c&r section and tightlined a few rainbows euro nymphing. My rig was tied up with a leader of 5ft each of 15lb maxima, 12lb and 10lb to my 18" colored sighter and then 6-7ft of 6x flurocarbon to flies tied by my friend @camp_made Thanks Nate for the trout candy. The fast water made each catch a fun fight.
Scored this 5 gallon glass jug at a garage sale for 8 bucks and filled it up at the Fountain of Youth Spring, a beautiful natural cold spring right off the Appalachian Trail in the middle of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
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