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Big Flat / Flat Brook (Sussex) Rt. 206 bridge

The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for Big Flat / Flat Brook (Sussex) Rt. 206 bridge downstream to the Roy Bridge on Mountain Rd., a distance of 4.2 miles, including the portion known as the Blewett Tract, as the state words them

NJ County · River · NJ

Has its own special rules
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The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from NJ's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water
  • All fish
    Catch and Release Area location; governed by Catch and Release Areas table

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Gear
Fish may be taken only in the manner known as angling with handline or with rod and line, or as otherwise allowed by law.Statewide
Bait
Only the following species may be taken for use as bait. American Eel, Banded Killifish, Creek Chub, Fallfish, Fathead Minnow, Gizzard Shad, Golden Shiner, Margined Madtom, Mummichog, and Tadpole Madtom.Statewide
Poles
When fishing from the shoreline , no more than three fishing rods, handlines or combination thereof may be usedStatewide

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
Brook Trout
2 trout in total (Brook, Brown, and Rainbow Trout combined)min. 9 inchStatewide
trout
Varies by water: limit of 6 (general trout regulations); limit reduced from 4 to 2; daily limit remains 2 (general trout regulations); limit will also be 2 (general trout regulations)
one daily creel limit in possession-Statewide
Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass
daily combined creel and possession limit of fivemin. minimum length of 12 inchesStatewide
panfish
daily limit of 25min. no minimum size limitStatewide
American Eel
See sizemin. minimum length of nine inchesStatewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this stretch begins and ends

This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in Big Flat / Flat Brook (Sussex) Rt. 206 bridge's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules
Statewide
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.
Special rules - Big Flat / Flat Brook (Sussex) Rt. 206 bridge
This water
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.

Local services near Big Flat / Flat Brook (Sussex) Rt. 206 bridge

Tackle shops, guides, and boat launches that serve this water will appear here - a separate lane below the rules, so a local business can reach you without ever getting between you and the regulation.

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