All schools in Upshur County will close at 1 p.m. today. All B-UHS sporting events today are canceled.

WVDNR announces trout stockings for first week of March

ELKINS, W.VA. — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) stocked the following waters with trout during the week of March 1:

  • Anthony Creek
  • Baker Lake (Children and Class Q)
  • Bear Rocks Lake
  • Big Clear Creek
  • Blackwater River
  • Brandywine Lake
  • Brushy Fork Lake
  • Buckhannon River
  • Buffalo Creek (Clay)
  • Buffalo Creek (Logan)
  • Bullskin Run
  • Burnsville Tailwaters
  • Camp Creek
  • Clear Fork of Guyandotte River
  • Clear Fork of Guyandotte River (Delayed Harvest)
  • Coonskin Park Lake (Children and Class Q)
  • Cranberry River
  • Deegan Lake
  • Dry Fork (Randolph)
  • Dry Fork (Tucker)
  • East River
  • Elk River
  • Elk River (Catch and Release)
  • Evitts Run
  • Gandy Creek
  • Glade of New River
  • Glady Fork
  • Hinkle Lake
  • Howards Creek
  • Indian Rocks Lake
  • Kanawha State Forest Pond (Children and Class Q)
  • Kimsey Run Lake
  • Knapps Creek
  • Lake Underwood (Children and Class Q)
  • Laurel Fork (Randolph)
  • Laurel Fork of Clear Fork of Guyandotte River (Children and Class Q)
  • Left Fork Right Fork Buckhannon River
  • Little Clear Creek
  • Logan County Airport Pond (Children and Class Q)
  • Lost River
  • Marsh Fork
  • Mash Fork
  • Mash Fork (Children and Class Q)
  • Middle Creek (Berkeley)
  • Miletree Lake
  • Mill Creek (Berkeley)
  • Miller Fork Pond (Children and Class Q)
  • Moores Run
  • New Creek
  • North Fork Fishing Creek
  • North Fork Lunice
  • North Fork Patterson Creek
  • North Fork South Branch
  • Paint Creek
  • Paint Creek (Catch and Release)
  • Panther Creek
  • Paw Paw Creek
  • Pinnacle Creek
  • Pond Fork
  • Poorhouse Pond
  • R.D. Bailey Tailwaters
  • Red Creek
  • Right Fork Buckhannon River
  • Shavers Fork (Bemis)
  • Shavers Fork (Catch and Release)
  • Shavers Fork (Lower Section)
  • South Branch (Franklin)
  • South Branch (Smoke Hole)
  • South Fork Fishing Creek
  • South Mill Creek Lake
  • Stonewall Jackson Tailwaters
  • Summit Lake
  • Sutton Tailwaters
  • Trout Run
  • Tuckahoe Lake
  • Tuscarora Creek
  • Waites Run
  • Warden Lake
  • Watoga Lake
  • Wheeling Creek
  • Whiteday Creek

Stocking locations are also published on WVDNR’s website here.

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