Stocked
streams will receive a combination of announced and unannounced stockings of catchable
trout throughout the 2016 stocking season.
Previously, most stream stockings were either always announced or
unannounced the entire season. This
year, more streams will have approximately half of their stockings announced
and half unannounced.
The DNR Trout Program
strives to provide a diversity of trout fishing opportunities for Iowans,
including announced catchable stockings, unannounced catchable stockings,
fingerling stockings, wild populations, streams with restrictive regulations,
easy universal access areas and remote streams with difficult access.
Iowa’s
three
trout hatcheries produce and stock approximately 310,000 catchable-sized rainbow
or brook
trout and 110,000 fingerling brown trout into hundreds of miles of northeast
Iowa streams April through October. A list of stocked streams is available on
the DNR trout map or trout stream
webpage.
Funding
to support the trout stocking program comes from the sale of fishing licenses
and trout fees. In 2014, nearly 39,000 Iowans and over 4,300 nonresidents spent
over 430,000 days trout fishing. This year’s modified stocking schedule will
help improve hatchery staff efficiency and ensure long-term sustainability of
Iowa’s successful and growing trout program.
Anglers
need to have a valid fishing license and pay the trout fee to fish for or
possess trout. The daily limit is five trout per licensed angler with a
possession limit of 10.
Weekly
stocking information is available on the 24-hour trout stocking hotline at
563-927-5736.
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