New Jersey - WTS List

A healthy, fat 12" brown taken on a NJ WTS (Photo - and fish - by webmaster)

According to the State DEP, there are 175 streams in New Jersey that support wild trout.  Of these streams, 35 are regulated as "Wild Trout Streams".  They have special regulations which can be found here:

 http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/2006/digfsh06-regs.pdf

Click on the link below to bring up a USGS survey map of each WTS stream.  The images are higher resolution than they appear in a browser.  Right click the map image in the browser and select "Save Image As..." to save it on your computer.  Then print on high quality (glossy) paper, or view in a better photo viewer than a browser.

1. Bear Creek (Southtown)
2. Bear Swamp Brook (Mahwah)
3. Black Brook (Clinton WMA)
4. Burnett Brook (Ralston)
5. Cold Brook (Oldwick)
6. Dark Moon Brook (aka Bear Brook) (Johnsonburg) (Southern section here)
7. Dunnfield Creek (Delaware Water Gap)
8. Flanders Brook (Flanders)
9. Hance's Brook (Penwell)
10. Hickory Run (Califon)
11. India Brook (Source to Mountainside Avenue, Mendham)
12. Indian Grove Brook (Bernardsville)
13. Jackson Brook (Source to Hedden Park Lake, Mine Hill Twp)
14. Ledgewood Brook (Ledgewood)
15. Little York Brook (Little York)
16. Lomerson Brook (also known as Herzog Brook) (Pottersville)
17. Merrill Creek (Stewartsville)
18. Mill Brook (Montague)
19. N/Br. Rockaway Creek (Mountainville) (Southern section here)
20. Parker Brook (Stokes SF)
21. Passaic River (Source to Rte. 202, Bernardsville)
22. Pequannock River (Oak Ridge Rd. bridge in Newark Watershed, downstream to railroad bridge immediately upstream of Charlottesburg Resevoir)
23. Rhineharts Brook (Hackelbarney State Park)
24. Rocky Run (Clinton Township)
25. Saddle River (State line to Lake St., Upper Saddle River)
26. Stephensburg Creek (Stephensburg)
27. Stony Brook (Stokes State Forest)
28. Stony Brook (Washington Township, Morris County)
29. Tetertown Brook (Tetertown)
30. Trout Brook (Hacklebarney State Park)
31. Turkey Brook (Mt. Olive)
32. Van Campens Brook (Delaware Water Gap NRA)
33. West Brook (Source downstream to Windbeam Club property)
34. Whippany River (Source to Tingley Road, Mendham Township)
35. Willoughby Brook (aka Buffalo Hollow Brook) (Clinton Township)

Click here to return to a clickable map of NJ WTS.

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