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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Trout season opens with various success in Morris


 
The fish were biting on the first day of trout season in Morris County — at least that's what a lot of fishermen and women were hoping would happen.

While some fish certainly were caught when the season began Saturday morning, fishermen spent the late morning and afternoon hours along the Rockaway River in Rockaway and Burnham Park in Morristown, respectively, casting and casting but coming up with only lures on their lines.

Chris Jascarek, 14, of Randolph staked out multiple locations along the Rockaway River but came up empty.
"I'm hoping to catch some trout today — I haven't caught any yet," he said.
Morristown residents Eric Allred, 23, Chris Brown, 22, his cousins Hyneef Brown and Rajhan Brown, 23 and 16, respectively, and their friend J.J. Green, 29, had better luck at Burnham Park.
Most of them had been there since 7 a.m. waiting for the start of the season an hour later.
Hyneef Brown said he and his brother caught five breeders — big, heavy fish — and that at least 11 of them had been caught by early afternoon.
"Everything we caught was caught off of metal this morning," Allred said of the lures they all used.

However, once morning turned to afternoon, pickings were slim. That didn't stop them from constantly casting and recasting their lines — sometimes getting nibbles but nothing more.
Heather Grant, 38, of Florham Park and her fiance, Nick De Lillo, 32, of Whippany said neither of them have gone fishing in years.
"It's our anniversary, so we wanted to do something that we could do together," Grant said, adding it wasn't too frustrating not catching anything because of the beautiful weather.
"It's always enjoyable," she said. "You see nature and a beautiful sun."

Prior to Saturday, the state stocked 200 bodies of water with 180,000 trout of varying sizes, averaging 10.5 inches in length and a half-pound in weight.
Although thousands of 2- to 5-pound fish were thrown into the mix — and those were the kinds that Allred and his friends snagged early in the morning in Burnham, where he said generations of his family and friends have fished.
"We've been fishing here for 24 years, and this is the best season we've had," he said.

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