Winter Trout Stocking START DATE: IMMEDIATELY KILL DATE: February 28, 2013 Contact: Carl Kittel, 512-353-0313 WINTER TROUT STOCKING Winter is a great time to take the family fishing! Through the first week of March, Texas Parks & Wildlife will stock nearly two hundred seventy-five thousand trout in community and state park fishing lakes. The trout stockings are funded by proceeds from the freshwater fishing stamp - which adults must purchase in addition to a fishing license. Kids under 17 fish free. Texas Parks and Wildlife reminds you that Life's Better Outside!