By Wayne G. Barber
Spring 2015Close to 500,000 brook, brown, rainbow and tiger trout will be stocked this spring from MassWildlife’s five hatcheries located in Sandwich, Palmer, Belchertown, Sunderland, and Montague. It has been a challenging year for the hatcheries this year given the extremely cold, icy, and snowy conditions that have prevailed this winter. Nevertheless, the close to 500,000 fish being stocked this spring, coupled with the more than 67,000 12+ inch trout stocked last fall should provide some excellent fishing in the coming months. Due to the heavy snow and thick ice that remains on lakes and ponds across the state, trout stocking likely will not begin until the last week of March or the first week in April, beginning with the eastern region of the state moving westward as the ice and snow melts.
Updated trout stocking schedules will be posted online every Friday between the end of March and Memorial Day in May. Anglers may also access stocking information by contacting individual district offices if they do not have access to the internet., equipment, and weather conditions. The schedule will be updated on this page every Friday by noon.
| Town | Stocked Waters (Week of April 27, 2015) |
| Athol | Millers River, Silver Lake |
| Barre | Prince River, Ware River |
| Brookfield | South Pond |
| Charlton | Little River, Snow Pond |
| Gardner | Dunn Pond, Kendall Pond, Perley Brook Reservoir |
| Hardwick | Ware River |
| Holden | Quinapoxet River |
| Hubbardston | Comet Pond |
| Lancaster | Fort Pond |
| Northboro | Assabet River |
| Northbridge | West River |
| Oxford | French River, Little River |
| Petersham | Conners Pond |
| Royalston | Millers River |
| Sturbridge | Big Alum Pond |
| Upton | West River |
| Uxbridge | West River |
| Ware | Ware River |
| Webster | Webster Lake |
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