Dozens of families help stock Chicopee Reservoir with trout

It took a village to move the trout in this Western Mass. city

CHICOPEE — Kids on school break formed a bucket brigade Wednesday, helping to carry trout from a mobile fish tank to the Chicopee Reservoir.

MassWildlife stocks trout at the Chicopee Reservoir for Earth Week

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - MassWildlife stocked the Chicopee Reservoir with trout Wednesday morning and allowed the public to get in on a fun day of fishing. This event is both an Earth Week celebration and gives people a hands-on experience with wildlife in our area. It was fishing galore at the Chicopee reservoir on Wednesday, as over a hundred people lined up for the annual trout stocking. This event coincides with Earth Week and spring break, …

Dozens of families help stock Chicopee Reservoir with trout

On Wednesday, dozens of families stopped by the Chicopee Reservoir, waiting eagerly in line for their turn to fill up a bucket.

It’s Trout Festival time!

Wotkers with Skerbeck Family Carnival were assembling rides in preperation for Thursday afternoon start-up. KALKASKA – Trout fishing season in Michigan always opens the last Saturday in April which, this year falls on April 26. In this part of northwest Michigan, that can only mean one thing - it’s National Trout Festival time.  This will be the 88th year of the event which begins this year on Wednesday, April 23 and runs through Sunday, April 2…