Ready to cast a line? Here’s when Centre County waterways will be stocked with trout

Millions of trout will be stocked in Pennsylvania rivers and streams this year, and the state Fish and Boat Commission has released the details.

The 2023 adult trout stocking schedule is available on the commission’s website, fishandboat.com, and on the FishBoatPA app. The schedule can be searched by county and shows where volunteers should meet, when stocking will occur in each waterway and which species of trout will be stocked at the location.

Stocking begins the week of Feb. 21 ahead of the April 1 statewide opening day to the season. In Centre County, stocking starts in March, A statewide Mentored Youth Trout Day will be held March 25.

“While many anglers still have their rods and tackle boxes stored away for the winter, the release of our trout stocking schedule is always highly anticipated and is a reminder that spring fishing opportunities are just around the corner,” Brian Wisner, director of the commission’s Bureau of Hatcheries, said in a press release. “This schedule is the blueprint we use as we build a world-class stocked trout fishery in all corners of the Commonwealth over the next several weeks.”

The commission plans to stock 3.2 million adult trout this year: about 2.3 million rainbow trout, 707,000 brown trout, 168,000 brook trout and 14,000 golden rainbow trout. Volunteers can help place the trout, whether conservation groups, schools or walk-ups.

Anglers 16 and older are required to have a fishing license and trout permit. Fishing licenses, launch permits and boat registration renewals can be purchased online at www.fishandboat.com or the FishBoatPA app, or in person at a license issuing agent.

Here’s a look at the preseason trout stocking schedule in Centre County, sorted alphabetically by waterway.

Bald Eagle Creek

9:45 a.m. March 15: Meet at the Milesburg ballfield off state Route 150 to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the confluence with Spring Creek and the Sayers Lake inlet near the Boggs/Howard Township line

9:30 a.m. March 17: Meet at the Unionville ballfield on Race Street to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout in these locations: between the Bell Hollow Road bridge and High Street bridge, between the High Street bridge and 0.38 miles upstream of Steel Hollow Run and between 0.38 miles upstream and 0.48 miles downstream of Steel Hollow Run

9:45 a.m. March 18: Meet at the Milesburg ballfield off state Route 150 to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between 0.48 miles downstream of Steel Hollow Run and the confluence with Spring Creek.

Big Poe Creek

10:15 a.m. March 20: Meet at the intersection of U.S. Route 322 and Sand Mountain Road to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the outflow of Poe Lake and the confluence with Little Poe Creek and to stock rainbow trout between the confluence with Little Poe Creek and the mouth of Big Poe Creek.

Black Moshannon Creek

10 a.m. March 16: Meet at the Snow Shoe exit off Interstate 80 to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the I-80 bridge and an unnamed tributary downstream of the Gorton Road bridge.

9:30 a.m. March 28: Meet in Black Moshannon State Park at the intersection of state Route 504 and Julian Pike to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout in these locations: between Black Moshannon Dam and the confluence with Dry Hollow, between the confluence with Dry Hollow and 0.3 miles downstream of the Huckleberry bridge and between 0.3 miles downstream of the Huckleberry bridge and the I-80 bridge.

Cold Stream Dam

9:45 a.m. March 11: Meet at the dam to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout.

Little Fishing Creek

9 a.m. March 13: Meet at the Pleasant Gap Fish Hatchery to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the fourth bridge upstream of the state Route 64 bridge in Hublersburg and the mouth of the creek.

Marsh Creek

9 a.m. March 13: Meet at the Pleasant Gap Fish Hatchery to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the confluence with an unknown tributary 0.5 miles upstream of Manntown Road and the mouth of the creek.

Penns Creek

9:30 a.m. March 27: Meet at the Spring Mills Fire Department parking lot to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between state Route 45 and the confluence with Elk Creek.

Pine Creek

9:45 a.m. March 29: Meet at Hairy Johns State Recreation Area off state Route 45 to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the Stony Run Road bridge and the Bald Eagle State Forest boundary.

Poe Lake

10:15 a.m. March 20: Meet at the intersection of Route 322 and Sand Mountain Road to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout in the lake.

Sinking Creek

9:30 a.m. March 14: Meet at the Colyer Lake parking lot at the dam breast to stock brown, rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the lake dam and the mouth of the creek.

Sixmile Run

9:30 a.m. March 21: Meet at the Route 504 bridge over Sixmile Run to stock rainbow trout between the Clay Mine Road crossing and the confluence with an unnamed tributary 0.6 kilometers upstream of Hutton Run and Route 504; and to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between the confluence with an unnamed tributary 0.6 kilometers upstream of Hutton Run and Route 504 and the mouth of Sixmile Run.

South Fork Beech Creek

9:45 a.m. March 25: Meet at the Snow Shoe exit of I-80 to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between a private pond and I-80.

Standing Stone Creek

9:45 a.m. March 23: Meet at the Perez Lake boat ramp to stock rainbow trout between the Penn Roosevelt Dam breast and the mouth of Detweiler Run.

Wallace Run

9:30 a.m. March 17: Meet at the Unionville ballfield on Race Street to stock rainbow and golden rainbow trout between an unnamed tributary at Gumstump and a quarter-mile upstream of the ballfield.

White Deer Creek

9:45 a.m. March 29: Meet at the Hairy Johns State Recreation Area to stock rainbow trout between the power line crossing 125 miles upstream of Black Gap Road and the Centre/Union County line.

Waterway removed

The Seven Mountains Boy Scout Pond will not be part of the adult trout stocking program because the pond has undergone a complete drawdown. Maintenance and repairs to the dam and spillway are expected to be completed this year, and the pond will return to the trout program as conditions allow.