At 8:30 am on Thursday, 5 November, the truck arrived with a load of 681 trout for KDOT East. Next they went to Sedgwick County Park to stock Vic's with 1,173, and the Creek with 912.
Most are 10-12 inches (1/2 to 3/4 pounds). They also include larger fish, including 2, 3, and 4 pounders.
The October 13 stocking did not go well at Vic's. The fisheries biologist says it was due to the stress of transportation, not the temperature of the lake. Two hundred (of the 1,173) died that same day. On November 19 they will bring an extra 200 for Vic's (1,373).
At KDOT East, they hook up a pipe to the truck, attach it to a pipe in the ground, and the fish are flushed down into the lake, emerging about 20 feet from the shore at the Northeast corner where you see the ramp.
It will be interesting as the season continues to see where they like to go in that 7 acre lake. Fishers try to catch them by sinking bait to the bottom, including corn, PowerBait, worms, cheese, and salmon eggs. They also use bobbers and minnows. Spin casters try every trout lure they have. Fly fishers cast dry flies, but mostly wet flies sunk deep.
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