TROUT STOCKING, 1 Break out the fishing gear ... time to 
reel in rainbows ... we have details on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

It's the holiday season; and we recommend celebrating 
with rods, reels and rainbows. Rainbow trout, that is.

13 -- We do winter stockings when the water temperatures 
permit it, to provide an opportunity for anglers to catch trout in 
Texas. It's a species of fish that anglers wouldn't catch 
otherwise, so we stock them, and we intend them all to be 
caught out during the season.

Carl Kittle (kitl) is a biologist with Inland Fisheries. He 
says thanks to abundant rainfall throughout most of the 
state, there's plenty of access to stock lakes and ponds.

06 - This year, things are pretty well back to normal. Looks like 
our normal level of stocking will happen. 

The agency will stock more than 290-thousand rainbow 
trout in about 150 sites statewide. 

07 - We publish a schedule on the Texas parks and Wildlife 
Department webpage. Look for the winter trout stocking link.

Carl Kittle says we stock rainbows in winter because 
these fish cannot survive our hot summers. So, when you 
reel one in this winter, take it home and eat it. 

We have two trout recipes at passporttotexas.org.

The Sport fish restoration program supports our series 
and helps to fund rainbow trout stocking in Texas ... 

We record our series at The Block House in Austin, Texas 
and Joel Block engineers our program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.




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