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WVDNR announces trout stockings for week of May 3

Trout

ELKINS, W.VA. — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) stocked the following waters with trout during the week of May 3:

• Anawalt Lake
• Anthony Creek
• Berwind Lake
• Big Sandy Creek
• Blackwater River
• Boley Lake
• Buckhannon River
• Buffalo Creek (Brooke)
• Buffalo Creek (Clay)
• Buffalo Fork Lake
• Bullskin Run
• Cacapon Park Lake
• Camp Creek
• Castleman Run Lake
• Cherry River
• Clear Fork of Guyandotte River
• Clover Run
• Coopers Rock Lake
• Cranberry River
• Cranberry River (C&R)
• Dillons Run
• Dry Fork (McDowell)
• Dunloup Creek
• East Fork Greenbrier River
• East River
• Edwards Run Pond
• Elk River
• Evitts Run
• Fort Ashby Reservoir
• French Creek Pond
• Gandy Creek
• Glade Creek of Mann
• Glade Creek of New River
• Glady Fork
• Greenbrier River (Durbin)
• Horseshoe Run
• Indian Rocks Lake
• Knapps Creek
• Laurel Fork (Randolph)
• Laurel Fork of Holly River
• Left Fork of Holly River
• Left Fork of Right Fork Buckhannon River
• Little Kanawha Headwaters
• Little River East Fork Greenbrier River
• Little River West Fork Greenbrier River
• Lost River
• Marsh Fork
• Mash Fork
• Mash Fork of Camp Creek (Children & Class Q)
• Mason Lake
• Middle Creek (Berkeley)
• Middle Fork River
• Middle Wheeling Lake
• Mill Creek (Berkeley)
• Mill Creek of South Branch
• Moores Run
• New Creek
• New Creek Dam No. 14
• North Fork Cherry River
• North Fork Patterson Creek
• North Fork South Branch
• Opequon Creek
• Paint Creek
• Panther Creek
• Paw Paw Creek
• Pinnacle Creek
• Pond Fork
• Poorhouse Pond
• RD Bailey Tailwaters
• Right Fork Buckhannon River
• Right Fork of Little Kanawha River
• Rockhouse Lake
• Rocky Marsh Run
• Seneca Lake
• Shavers Fork (Bemis)
• Shavers Fork (lower section rail stocking – High Falls and Bowden to Bemis sections)
• Shavers Fork (lower section)
• Shavers Fork (upper section rail stocking – C&R section and downstream of C&R to Bemis)
• Shavers Fork (upper section)
• South Branch (Franklin)
• South Branch (Smoke Hole)
• South Fork Cherry River
• Spruce Knob Lake
• Spruce Laurel Fork
• Summersville Tailwaters
• Summit Lake
• Trout Run
• Tuckahoe Lake
• Tygart Lake Tailwaters
• Tygart Valley River Headwaters
• Waites Run
• Watoga Lake
• West Fork Greenbrier River
• Whiteday Creek
• Williams River

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