Winter Trout Stocking START DATE: IMMEDIATELY KILL DATE: February 29, 2016 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 ninety-thousand trout in 150 community and state park fishing lakes. Proceeds from the freshwater fishing stamp - which adults must purchase in addition to a fishing license -- fund the trout stockings. Meanwhile, kids under 17 may fish free. And it's always free to fish at state parks. Texas Parks and Wildlife reminds you that Life's Better Outside!