Looking forward to release day

    Many of you are planning the day when you release your brook trout for this year.  I have spoken or emailed a large number of you recently regarding this topic.  Please remember to work with your Trout Unlimited local chapter coordinator.  This is usually, although not always, the person that brought you the eggs or sac fry last September or October.  If you are not certain who to contact, please reach out to me and I will be happy to steer you in the right direction!  Remember, we need to obtain for each school the necessary release permit from the state Fish & Wildlife division and it takes a couple of weeks to accomplish this most times.  Also, please strongly consider using the list of pre-approved streams/rivers that I sent each of you recently.  For many schools, there are not adequate year-round trout waters nearby so plans will need to be made with your TU coordinators to arrange the release into waters that might be more than an hour away from the school.  It would be a shame to release the trout into waters that cannot support them year-round as they would have no chance of survival beyond the summer months.