Brown troutBrown, rainbow and brook troutFish on your own. Guide prices are optional; check licence, permit and access requirements before going.
JFMAMJJASOND
- Guide, per angler
- $225–263
- Public access
- Good
- Crowding
- Medium
Big Flat Brook
Stokes State Forest to Walpack, New Jersey · USA
Right now
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Flow, last 7 days (cfs)Normal range for these dates
Weather forecast
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Day ratings weigh rain first (it raises and colors the river), then wind.
Flow: USGS Flat Brook near Flatbrookville. Recent readings are provisional. Normal range: the middle half of past flows for these dates. Forecast: National Weather Service.
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Apr–Jun and Oct; too warm in midsummer Wrong?
The water
About four miles from the Route 206 bridge down to the Roy/Blewett tract are fly fishing only, in a wooded valley between Stokes State Forest and the Delaware Water Gap. It is the farthest of the state's top trout streams from the cities, and the lower river warms in summer.
- Target species
- Stocked rainbows, browns and brook trout; some wild brook and brown trout
- Trip style
- DIY-friendly
- Access
- Wade Wrong?
- Public access
- Good Wrong?
- Crowding
- Medium Wrong?
- Difficulty
- Intermediate Wrong?
- License and rules
- Fishing licenseRegulationsThe lower brook is in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, where New Jersey licenses and regulations apply.Wrong?
The posted rate is one shop's New Jersey wade rate; it doesn't name the Flat Brook
What a trip costs
You came from a self-guided day-trip search. The calculator starts with one fishing day and no guide. Licence, permit, travel and any other costs still apply.
Flies by month
April
- Hendrickson / Red Quill #12–14
- Quill Gordon #14
- Blue Quill #18
- Blue-Winged Olive #20
- Little Black Stonefly #16
May
- Hendrickson / Red Quill #12–14
- March Brown #12
- Sulphur
- Grannom / gray caddis #16–18
June
- Sulphur
- Light Cahill
- Tan Caddis #14–16
- Isonychia (Slate Drake)
- Terrestrials #16–22
October
- Blue-Winged Olive #20
- October Caddis
- Isonychia (fall)
Source notes
No Flat Brook report from a shop on the stream was found. South Branch Outfitters (Califon, NJ) gives the key Flat Brook hatches and a regional NJ calendar, and sizes come from The Fly Shack's Big Flat Brook chart, which gives no months.
From local shops and guides: sboutfitters.com · flyshack.com. Ask the nearest shop what's working this week.
What to bring
- Rod
- 5–6 wt
- Line
- Floating
- Leader and tippet
- Dries 9–12 ft 5X–6X; nymphs 3X–4X
- Wading
- Waders
- Also pack
- Floatant + strike indicators
From perfectflystore.com. Guides usually supply rods and flies on a guided day; ask when you book.
Guides and fly shops
- tightlinesflyfishing.com · guide rates, rates and trips
- suburbanflyfishers.com · rates and trips
- littonsfishinglines.com · rates and trips
- South Branch Outfitters · hatch chart or reports
- The Fly Shack · hatch chart or reports
These are the businesses this page's prices and fly lists come from. A listing isn't an endorsement, and nobody pays to be here.
Getting there
Getting there
Fly into EWR Newark, then 1.5 hr. About 57 miles (92 km) by road. Marker at the Route 560 bridge, inside the fly-fishing-only stretch
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Driving from Scranton about 1 hr 20 min, New York City about 1 hr 40 min, Allentown about 1 hr 50 min, Albany about 2 hr 40 min.
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