Annual Winter Trout Stocking Began Nov. 29

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News Release

Media Contact: Steve Lightfoot, (512) 389-4701, [email protected]

Dec. 3, 2007

Annual Winter Trout Stocking Begins Nov. 29

AUSTIN, Texas — For an inexpensive, entry-level fishing experience the entire family can enjoy, it doesn’t get much easier than winter rainbow trout fishing in Texas.

Beginning Nov. 29 and continuing through March, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will stock upwards of 275,000 hatchery-reared rainbow trout at about 120 sites across the state. Many of the fish stockings will be conducted at small community fishing lakes, state park lakes and popular river tailraces offering easy angling access.

TPWD has been stocking rainbow trout each winter since the 1970s, providing Texans a simple and economical....

Full Article: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20071203a

Trout Stocking Schedule and Locations: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/management/stocking/trout_stocking.phtml