{"id":37029,"date":"2022-09-26T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=37029"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:37:02","slug":"fall-trout-stocking-to-begin-across-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/09\/26\/fall-trout-stocking-to-begin-across-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Trout Stocking to Begin Across Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fishing Spots to Receive Allotments in October<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8016\/27773605573_d8810a15a6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of brown trout in the water\" width=\"364\" height=\"236\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by John Mullican<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will begin fall trout stock in early October. The department will be stocking thousands of hatchery-raised brown, golden, and rainbow trout in select creeks, rivers, lakes, and ponds across the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anglers are encouraged to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/public.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/MDDNR\/subscriber\/new?qsp=CODE_RED\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to receive stocking updates. Anglers can also call the trout stocking hotline at 800-688-3467 on Fridays starting in October for a weekly update on all locations stocked. DNR also publishes daily stocking updates on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/trout\/stocking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as well as on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarylandDNRFisheries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDDNRFISH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Due to several variables that can alter schedules, stocking sites and times are not announced in advance, but are available afterward.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a reminder, regulations are now in effect requiring catch-and-release fishing only for brook trout in all put-and-take trout areas and all waters east of Interstate 81. Anglers should take time to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Documents\/Trout_ID_page.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">properly identify brook trout<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which are not stocked by DNR. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some stocked streams have seasonal restrictions so anglers should consult the current <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/fishing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Guide to Fishing and Crabbing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for all regulations and restrictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Information on fishing licenses and other related products are available on\u00a0 the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COMPASS portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or the DNR <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/licensing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Licensing and Registration Services website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing Spots to Receive Allotments in October The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will begin fall trout stock in early October. The department will be stocking thousands of hatchery-raised brown, golden, and rainbow trout in select creeks, rivers, lakes, and ponds across the state.\u00a0 Anglers are encouraged to sign up to receive stocking updates.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/09\/26\/fall-trout-stocking-to-begin-across-maryland\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[4712,5093,5044,4375],"class_list":["post-37029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-brook-trout","tag-fall","tag-fishing","tag-trout-stocking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37045,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions\/37045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}