eleased into the lower Mountain Fork River. Since that time, both the 
lower Mountain Fork and the lower Illinois rivers have received periodic 
stockings of brown trout.
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According to Balkenbush, anglers wanting to catch a brown trout will have an even better chance in the coming months.
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From time to time, our state fish hatcheries receive brown trout fingerlings from the federal fish hatchery system. This year we have approximately 10,000 that will be released into the lower Mountain Fork once they grow to a catchable size, so it’s never 
been a better time to try your luck at catching one,” said Balkenbush. 
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Balkenbush said another project will assist the department’s effort to provide rainbow trout to the Mountain Fork. 
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We’re in the process of building a trout-rearing pen located on the Lower Mountain Fork trout area to grow small fingerling rainbow trout into a catchable size. This is going to further assist our efforts to provide more trout to the area.” 
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