Most stocked trout waters also receive at least one in-season stocking some time from the opening week of the season until late May. The final preseason stocking for Blair County will be Bells Gap Run, Riggles Gap Run and Vanscoyoc Run on March 23 meeting place is the Sheetz store off the Bellwood exit of I-99 at 10:15 a.m. Canoe Creek will be stocked on March 11 meeting place is the Canoe Creek State Park office at 10:15 a.m. 28 the meeting place is the Williamsburg post office at 10:15 a.m. Other preseason trout stockings in Blair County will continue later this month and during March. 26 meeting place is the Canoe Creek State Park office at 10:15 a.m. Canoe Creek Lake will be stocked on Saturday, Feb. 25 meeting place is village of Bald Eagle at 9:30 a.m. Bald Eagle Creek will be stocked on Friday, Feb. 24 the meeting place is the Newry post office at 10:15 a.m. Poplar Run and South Poplar Run will be stocked on Thursday, Feb. 23 starting at 10:15 from the Claysburg post office. Beaverdam Creek and the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River will be stocked on Wednesday, Feb. 22 the meeting place is the Newry post office at 10:15 a.m. Blair Gap Run is scheduled to be stocked Tuesday, Feb. Next week will comprise the busiest week of preseason trout stocking in Blair County. Those looking for an excuse to get outside for a little late-winter exercise can come out and help with an upcoming stocking. It’s great to know the many dedicated volunteers who willingly give their time and effort to help distribute the allotments of trout will have the opportunity to do so again.

During 20, the public was not permitted to participate in trout stocking activities due to COVID concerns. Volunteers will again be welcome to come along and to help carry fish to the streams during any scheduled stocking. About 80 percent of those gaudy yellow freak fish will be stocked preseason and the other 20 percent during in-season stockings. Many waterways will also receive a few of the 13,000 golden rainbows, which typically average 1.5 pounds.

About 70 percent of these bigger book, brown and rainbow trout will be stocked during the preseason and 30 percent will be released during the in-season stockings. To increase the chances of anglers catching a larger trout, the PFBC will be stocking about 70,000 brood fish measuring 14 to 20 inches long.

In addition to trout raised at state fish hatcheries, PFBC cooperative nurseries operated by sportsmen’s clubs across the state will add another 1 million trout to waters open to public angling. The average size of trout stocked by the PFBC is expected to be 11 inches and weighing slightly more than a half-pound. These figures include approximately 2.2 million rainbow trout 686,000 brown trout and 293,000 brook trout. The annual trout-stocking efforts of the PFBC will get underway this week in most counties of our region.ĭuring 2022, the PFBC will release about 3.2 million adult trout into 696 streams and 128 lakes around the state. 21 until the opening of trout season instead of the traditional March 1 closure. Stocked trout waters are closed to all fishing from Feb. With trout season starting two weeks earlier, the trout stocking schedules have been updated accordingly. This year, trout season will begin on April 2 with the Mentored Youth Trout Day on March 26. The first day of trout season will now happen on the first Saturday of April each year rather than the traditional mid-April opener.

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