Monday, November 24, 2025
6:30 pm
Rapides Westside Library, 5416 Provine, Alexandria
Also livestreamed on Zoom & YouTube
Join us this month as Christy Graham joins up via Zoom. Christy is Trout Program Coordinator for Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) and oversees their trout stocking program.
Bad luck has hit the AGFC trout hatcheries this year. In Spring, floods caused damage to the Hinkle Spring River Hatchery that supplies most of the fish to the Little Missouri River. Then in October, there were problems at the Norfork National Fish Hatchery that resulted in loss of 80 percent of the fish used to stock Beaver, Norfork and Bull Shoals. As a result, emergency regulations were placed on most stocked waters to limit the amount of harvest.
However, with winter comes peak stocking time and some rivers like the Little Mo are likely to receive much fewer trout than normal - perhaps very little at all. Christy will discuss what the current problems are, and what plans they have to restore what is the best trout fishing in the South.
As always, the public is welcome! Remote members can participate using the Zoom meeting number and password sent by email. The livestream is also available on our YouTube Channel. Click this link and go to Live videos -
http://bit.ly/3oBk106
