{"id":177625,"date":"2026-03-27T20:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:18:22","slug":"new-york-spring-trout-fishing-season-starts-april-1-with-stocking-underway-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177625\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Spring Trout Fishing Season Starts April 1 With Stocking Underway | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) — The spring trout fishing season is starting April 1, giving anglers a chance to catch wild and stocked trout across New York.<\/p>\n

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced that more than 1.7 million brook, brown and rainbow trout will be stocked in State waters from mid-March through early June.<\/p>\n

Drought conditions at Catskill Fish Hatchery last summer and autumn led to a reduced water supply, which slowed brown trout growth, according to the DEC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yearling trout from this hatchery will be shorter than the usual 9-inch target size, but growth is expected to return to normal with regular rainfall.<\/p>\n

Anglers can use the Trout Stream Fishing Map<\/a>\u00a0to find trout stream locations and fishing access.<\/p>\n

The Tackle Box feature in the HuntFishNY app<\/a> also helps anglers find trout fishing spots using their smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) — The spring trout fishing season is starting April 1, giving anglers a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2586,71873,93,9,71871,11,10,19582,71872,71874],"class_list":["post-177625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dec","tag-fishing-season","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-fishing","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nysdec","tag-trout-fishing","tag-trout-fishing-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}