Opening day of trout season in New Jersey long anticipated by fishers
New Jersey Herald WALPACK — As Bruce Thomas saw the photographer approach, he held up his string of trout. "Wanna picture of what we got?" he proudly asked. Thomas and his brother, William, have been fishing the same spot of the Flatbrook since 1978 and had two rainbow trout on the string mid-Saturday morning as they were calling it a day. For the past few years, Bruce, from Somerville, makes the trip every trout season opening day from his home in Somerset County to Warwick, New York, to pick up his brother. Then they head for the same spot just downstream of the Roy Bridge, a place mos...