CT DEP Fall Trout Stocking

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that its autumn trout stocking will begin September 13th. From mid-September through mid-October, DEP expects to release nearly 49,000 trout into selected waters throughout the state. Among the areas scheduled for stocking this fall are twenty-six lakes and ponds, twenty-two rivers and streams including eleven of the Trout Management Areas (TMA), four “Urban Fishing Areas”, and nine Trout Parks.

URBAN FISHING AREAS:
Bunnells Pond Mohegan Park Pond & Keney Park Pond Lake Wintergreen

TROUT PARKS:
Black Rock Pond Mohegan Park Pond
Chatfield Hollow Southford Falls Pond
Day Pond Valley Falls Park Pond
Great Hollow Pond (Wolfe Park) Wharton Brook (Allen Brook Pond)
Natchaug River

TROUT MANAGEMENT AREAS (TMA):
Farmington River TMA Salmon River TMA
Hammonasset River TMA Saugatuck River TMA
Mianus River TMA Sleeping Giant TMA (Mill River-Hamden)
Mill River TMA Yantic River TMA
Moosup River TMA Willimantic River TMA
Naugatuck River TMA

RIVERS AND STREAMS (see Trout Parks & TMAs for additional locations):
East Aspetuck River Pequonnock River Sandy Brook
Farmill River Pomperaug River Saugatuck River
Hammonasset River Quinebaug River Scantic River
Norwalk River East Branch Salmon Brook (Granby)
Shetucket River
Pachaug River Salmon River (Colchester) Yantic River

LAKES AND PONDS (see Trout Parks for additional locations):
Amos Lake Crystal Lake (Ellington) Rogers Lake
Bashan Lake Horse Pond Squantz Pond
Baummers Pond Long Pond Stillwater Pond
Beach Pond Mashapaug Lake Tyler Pond
Bigelow Pond Mohawk Pond Wauregan Reservoir
Black Pond (Middlefield) Moosup Pond West Hill Pond
Black Pond (Woodstock) Mt. Tom Pond West Side Pond
Cedar Lake Pattaconk Lake Wyassup Lake
Coventry Lake Quonnipaug Lake