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April 1 is start of trout season in St. Lawrence County and annual stocking underway

Posted 3/28/15

The annual stocking of trout streams in St. Lawrence County is about to get underway as the traditional spring trout and salmon season starts on April 1. The earliest stocking in the county is …

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April 1 is start of trout season in St. Lawrence County and annual stocking underway

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The annual stocking of trout streams in St. Lawrence County is about to get underway as the traditional spring trout and salmon season starts on April 1.

The earliest stocking in the county is usually in the Oswegatchie River in Piercefield in March, and the schedule shows 1,750 eight- to nine-inch brook trout due to go in this month. In May, the Oswegatchie is due to get 3,500 brown trout introduced in Clifton and Fine.

The stockings are done by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and local volunteers.

The single biggest stocking effort in the county is set for Cranberry Lake in May, when 6,120 of those eight- to nine-inch brook trout will be dropped in.

In the next couple of months, thousands of brook, brown and rainbow trout will be stocked in every part of the county, from the Bog River in Piercefield in the southeast, to Sylvia Lake in Fowler in the west, to the northeast part of the county in the St. Regis River in Lawrence and Hopkinton, and places in between.

Public fishing rights maps to the region can be found at http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/44864.html, and other info, including a chart of fish species and explanations of fishing regulations, can be found elsewhere on the DEC web site.