Musconetcong River

First trout of 2025, gonna be a good year!

Some of the nicer looking guys from my lunch break and post work sessions today. Stockers were hammering the caddis and perdigon nymphs hanging in the deeper sections of slower water. Ended up catching 20, with the last one being the biggest and best fighter.

The suckers just started biting and they are fat as hell. The biggest 18 incher put a nice bend in the 2 weight, felt like a snag at first. 2 rainbows and 3 suckers in a little over an hour. Tightlining in deeper pools with majority taking the point black stone fly over the flashback pheasant tail from this week's ties. The warm weather and later sunset's right around the corner!

Super cold out today, only went out for a bit and got this guy on an orange hot shot perdigon I tied up this week. Called it quits after snagging a branch and breaking off cause I could barely tie back on.

One nice rainbow and a bunch of chub from this afternoon hitting a mixed combo of Black Deer Hair Caddis, Hare's Ear and Black Stone Nymphs. Starting to see more flies out and about on the river!