EASTERN CONNECTICUT — Four Eastern Connecticut waterways received trout this week, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s stocking report updated October 30.
The report lists Blackwells Brook in Brooklyn and Plainfield as stocked October 30. The lower Blackledge River in Hebron and Marlborough was stocked October 29.
The Quinebaug River entry covering Thompson, Putnam, Plainfield and Canterbury lists October 28. The open section of the Moosup River in Plainfield also lists October 28; DEEP’s separate Moosup River Trout Management Area entry retains an October 6 date.
The distinctions matter for anglers planning a trip: a date beside a river does not mean every stocking location along that river received fish. DEEP says conditions can prevent individual locations from being stocked on a particular run, and its list is subject to change.
Statewide, DEEP’s fall plan calls for more than 60,000 trout and more than 2,000 Atlantic salmon across 38 lakes and ponds and 37 river or stream sections. Those are season plans, not a count of fish delivered to the four Eastern Connecticut waterways this week.
The October 30 update also reports that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service donation supplied close to 200 lake trout for Tyler Lake in Goshen. That stocking is outside Eastern Connecticut and should not be confused with the fish delivered to local rivers and brooks.
Readers can use the linked DEEP report and stocking maps to check the listed waterbody and date. This article does not establish current water conditions, fishing success, public access to a particular bank or the regulations for a specific location.
DEEP identifies the Quinebaug Valley State Fish Hatchery in Plainfield as the facility responsible for producing the majority of the state’s trout. Its hatchery overview describes breeding, rearing and distribution work that supports stocking statewide; it does not identify the hatchery of origin for each fish in this week’s river entries.
This AI-prepared report is based on DEEP’s current public stocking record and hatchery information. The accompanying DEEP photograph is a file view of the Quinebaug Valley State Fish Hatchery in Plainfield, not a photograph of this week’s stocking.