Those from NJ (or familiar with)
nadams
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Just curious... anyone from around the Wanaque/Ringwood area?
If so, do you happen to remember the Tapawingo Trout Preserve? It was operated off of Lake Sonoma, a man made lake that some distant relatives (through marriage, not blood) of mine created in 1950. The lake was (and I believe, still is) a privately owned lake. Back in the day, it was a preserve where fishermen could come, pay their dues, and fish all they wanted on the lake.
It was certainly built in a different time.... here's an excerpt from an autobiography Maitland B. Bleeker wrote in 1996-
"As winter loosened its grip, in the spring of 1950 we took the logs we had saved, from our lake-basin clearing, and loaded our truck as much as we dared. In fact, we overhung them so far that, when we got on the road, every little bump and the front of the truck would bounce up off the road and I would loose all steering control. The solution was to have somebody lie alongside the engine hood on one fender and Allan do the same thing on the other side. The usually friendly police weren't too happy about this, but let us by with nothing more than a bawling out"
Ha! I just liked that part. The whole story of the preserve is just amazing... how they built it and maintained it. When I was a bit younger, we used to go swim in the lake, and when hiking around the surrounding area, could find all the old equipment they used in maintaining the trout ponds (at that point it had been shut down for quite a while).
Truely a cool place if you're allowed to visit. The NJDEP Division of Fishing and Wildlife lists it on their website, so you should be able to. However, I believe the property was sold to someone intending to keep it private.
Anyway, just curious if anyone had heard of it.
If so, do you happen to remember the Tapawingo Trout Preserve? It was operated off of Lake Sonoma, a man made lake that some distant relatives (through marriage, not blood) of mine created in 1950. The lake was (and I believe, still is) a privately owned lake. Back in the day, it was a preserve where fishermen could come, pay their dues, and fish all they wanted on the lake.
It was certainly built in a different time.... here's an excerpt from an autobiography Maitland B. Bleeker wrote in 1996-
"As winter loosened its grip, in the spring of 1950 we took the logs we had saved, from our lake-basin clearing, and loaded our truck as much as we dared. In fact, we overhung them so far that, when we got on the road, every little bump and the front of the truck would bounce up off the road and I would loose all steering control. The solution was to have somebody lie alongside the engine hood on one fender and Allan do the same thing on the other side. The usually friendly police weren't too happy about this, but let us by with nothing more than a bawling out"
Ha! I just liked that part. The whole story of the preserve is just amazing... how they built it and maintained it. When I was a bit younger, we used to go swim in the lake, and when hiking around the surrounding area, could find all the old equipment they used in maintaining the trout ponds (at that point it had been shut down for quite a while).
Truely a cool place if you're allowed to visit. The NJDEP Division of Fishing and Wildlife lists it on their website, so you should be able to. However, I believe the property was sold to someone intending to keep it private.
Anyway, just curious if anyone had heard of it.
Ludicrous gibs!
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