Winter Trout Stocking Taking Place In RI

Winter trout stocking is happening in Rhode Island. Photo/RI DEM

The temperature outside might be freezing cold, but the trout scene is heating up in Rhode Island.

Crews with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management are starting their mid-winter trout stocking throughout the state.

Beginning the last week of January, crews will be stocking brook trout, rainbow trout, and Sebago salmon at 13 locations throughout Rhode Island.

Trout are being stocked at the following locations:

♦ Barber Pond, South Kingstown – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Round Top Ponds, Burrillville – Brook Trout

♦ Onley Pond, Lincoln Woods State Park – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Carbuncle Pond, Coventry – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Meadow Brook Pond, Richmond – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Silver Spring Lake, North Kingstown – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Simmons Mill Pond, Little Compton – Rainbow Trout, Salmon

♦ Stafford Pond, Tiverton – Rainbow Trout

♦ Watchaug Pond, Charlestown – Rainbow Trout

♦ Willet Pond, East Providence – Rainbow Trout

♦ Wyoming Pond, Hope Valley – Rainbow Trout

♦ Peck Pond, Burrillville – Rainbow Trout

♦ Upper Melville Pond (Thurston Gray) – Golden Rainbow Trout, Salmon

Visit www.dem.ri.gov/troutwaters for updates on trout stocking in Rhode Island.