Photo Story: USFWS stocks more than 15,000 rainbow trout in Fort McCoy’s waterways for 2024 fishing season, Part I

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Fort McCoy Fisheries Biologist Steve Rood who works with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch holds a rainbow trout after U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees stocked rainbow trout April 23, 2024, in Big Sandy Lake on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 4,000 trout were stocked in the lake in 2024 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Overall, workers with the USFWS' Genoa National Fish Hatchery of Genoa, Wis., stocked more than 15,000 rainbow trout in several waterways throughout the post. USFWS personnel delivered the trout April 23 and 26. Trout were stocked in Suukjak Sep, Sandy, Stillwell, and Big Sandy lakes and Sparta and Swamp ponds. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

05.01.2024

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                         

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees stock rainbow trout April 23, 2024, in Big Sandy Lake on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.

More than 4,000 trout were stocked in the lake in 2024 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Overall, workers with the USFWS' Genoa National Fish Hatchery of Genoa, Wis., stocked more than 15,000 rainbow trout in several waterways throughout the post.

USFWS personnel delivered the trout April 23 and 26, said Fort McCoy Fisheries Biologist Steve Rood who works with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch.

Trout were stocked in Suukjak Sep, Sandy, Stillwell, and Big Sandy lakes and Sparta and Swamp ponds.

Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”

• Date Taken: 05.01.2024
• Date Posted: 05.01.2024 15:48
• Story ID: 470046
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US