DNR Will Add 330K Catchable Trout To State Waters

The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be adding nearly 330,000 catchable trout to state waters before the open of the inland fishing season on May 4. DNR fishery crews have been stocking rainbow, brown and brook trout raised at hatcheries in Nevin, Osceola and St. Croix Falls.

David Giehtbrock is the statewide hatchery production manager at the DNR: “It’s a regular thing to stock yearling trout. We stock these generally in locations where there isn’t a sustainable fishery with natural reproduction of this age of fish. “

For instance, about 70,000 yearling trout will be stocked in urban fishing locales in the Milwaukee area.

The DNR’s website has interactive maps of trout streams and other fishing areas.