DNR’S 2004 Fall Trout Stocking In Full Swing

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ANNAPOLIS, MD — Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service announced today that its 2004 fall trout-stocking program is in full swing. For this phase, 67 percent of the trout average about a pound, and 33 percent average 9 inches or a little less than half a pound. Most of the loads contained bonus trout. Fishermen should remember that smaller fish are much easier to fool than the larger ones.

The following areas were stocked this week; delayed-harvest areas are indicated.

County	Area Stocked	Number Stocked
Allegany	Wills Creek	225
	Town Creek (Delayed Harvest)	500
Anne Arundel	Lake Waterford	550
Baltimore	Stansbury Park Pond	750
Calvert	Calvert Cliffs Pond	250
	Hutchins Pond	250
Caroline	Tuckahoe Creek	500
Cecil	Big Elk Creek	1000
	Howard's Pond	500
	Rising Sun Pond	250
Charles	Myrtle Grove Ponds	700
	Wheatley Lake	1000
Frederick	Carroll Creek	400
	Cunningham Falls	1500
	Friends Creek	500
	Rainbow Lake	500
Garrett	Bear Creek	750
	North Branch at Kitzmiller	750
	Youghiogheny at Friendsville	1000
	Casselman River (Delayed Harvest)	1250
	North Branch (Delayed Harvest)	1000
	Upper Savage River (Delayed Harvest)	500
Montgomery	Great Seneca Creek	750
	Lake Needwood	750
Prince George’s	Cosca Lake	550
	Greenbelt Lake	550
	Lake Artemisia	550
	Middle Patuxent (Delayed Harvest)	450
Washington	Antietam Creek	1000
	Beaver Creek	1250
	Blair’s Valley Lake	1000
	Greenbrier Lake	1500
	Middle Creek	500

The stocking of large bonus trout is more good news for anglers. DNR was able to obtain an additional 606 brood rainbow trout from the White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery in West Virginia, the same source that supplied the trout placed in western Maryland streams and lakes on Sept. 9. These fish average more than three pound each and were stocked in the following locations last Tuesday.

Greenbrier Lake, Antietam Creek, Cunningham Falls Lake, Rainbow Lake, and Deer Creek in Baltimore County got 50 each. Big Elk Creek got 40; Lake Artemisia and Wheatley Lake, 30 each; the main Myrtle Grove Pond, 27; Cosca Lake, 25; Greenbelt Lake, 20; Lake Waterford, 22; and Hutchins Pond, 12.

The Patapsco River was stocked in several places. Marriottsville Road received 31; the Daniels Dam area, 16; the section between Old Frederick Road and I-70, 54; and the Avalon section, 49. Some of this stocking took place late at night because Hurricane Jeanne made transporting them a much slower process than anticipated.

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