04/11/2026
❤️ 🎣 We have everything you need for opening day tomorrow
Tomorrow is opening day for trout fishing in New Jersey! 🎣 This day is always special at Ringwood Manor because of its history with Abram Hewitt’s son, Edward Ringwood Hewitt. Geoffrey Hellman of The New Yorker Magazine once described Edward as “America’s outstanding example of the inability of man, however much inclined, to turn himself into a brook trout.” Edward learned to fish on the Ringwood Manor property as a young boy. He wrote:
“As a boy my summers were spent at my father’s country place at Ringwood, NJ, near Tuxedo, where he had a large estate of wild country containing many miles of fine trout streams. While I was growing up a trout hatchery was operated on the place, so that I became perfectly familiar with all the details of raising and planting trout.”
By age 26, Edward had already fished throughout Europe, Canada, and the American West. He would later go on to be considered one of the preeminent fly fishermen in America, writing numerous books on the subject, having several fish hatcheries, and inventing fishing equipment such as reels, line grease, and fly patterns such as the famous “Neversink skater.” Edward was a member of the NY Anglers Club of New York City, the Windbeam Fishing Club on the Westbrook stream in Ringwood and in 1918, Edward Ringwood Hewitt established a fishing camp, called the “Big Bend Club,” on 2,700 acres in the Catskill Mountains.
You, too, can fish at Ringwood Manor just like Edward! The river, which runs through the estate, is stocked with trout every spring by the and is available to the public to fish as long as they have a current fishing license and trout stamp. Visit their tagged page for more details.
Here: an image from one of Edward Ringwood Hewitt's books showing him fly fishing.