PHOTOS: Residents assist in stocking fish in area streams
Casey Bogert with the Bellefonte State Fish Hatchery fills a bucket full of trout to be released into the Bear Creek on Friday afternoon, April 7, 2023. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Casey Bogert with Bellefonte State Fish Hatchery on the left shows a volunteer how to hold a bucket lid so he can dump a load of trout into the bucket to be released into the Bear Creek on Friday, April 7, 2023. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Sam Wilson, of Kittanning, releases a bucket full of trout into the Bear Creek on Friday, April 7, 2023. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Dustin Robinson along with his two stepsons Vito Zanetti, 8, and Matteo Zanetti, 7, who is pointing out the trout swimming away in the Bear Creek on Friday, April 7, 2023. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Kaden Pyle, 11, left, and Sam Wilson of Kittanning dump in a bucket of trout into the Bear Creek on Friday, April 7, 2023. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
From left, volunteer Sam Wilson, Casey Bogert with Bellefonte State Fish Hatchery, volunteer Tom Hutcheson, Tim Schaeffer with the state Fish and Boat Commission, volunteer Rick Carson and Mark Kerr, a Waterways Conservation officer out of Venango County all take part in a trout restocking on Friday, April 7, 2023.
A variety of trout are loaded into a float, which is used to move trout downstream to less accessible water while stocking on Thorn Creek in Penn Township during the late morning hours on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Rick Kelly, 39, of Butler, lets the trout fly at Thorn Creek on Monday, March 20, 2023. Kelly has helped th Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stock trout for three seasons. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Dan Forst, 65, of Cranberry Township, dumps trout into Thorn Creek on Monday, March 20, 2023. Forst has helped stock trout for four seasons. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Roger Davis, 60, of Butler, moves trout downstream on Thorn Creek in Penn Township with a float box on Monday, March 20, 2023. Davis has been volunteering on stocking days with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat commission since he was 12. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Spray fills the air as Joe Baker of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, right, pulls a net full of stock trout out of his truck tanks as Kim Tabacchi readies a bucket to receive the fish on top of the commission’s stock truck in Penn Township on Monday, March 20, 2023. The cars in the background belong to volunteers who followed the truck from stop to stop to aid with getting the fish into Thorn Creek. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Trey Kelly, 14, of Butler, dumps a bucket load of trout into Thorn Creek on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Members of the Butler County Conservation District and the Connoquenessing Watershed Alliance, including Reed Hertzler, Camryn Monk, Ryan Harr and Roger Davis, float stock a section of Thorn Creek in Penn Township on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Reed Hertzler, of Kittaning, leads a group from the Connoquenessing Watershed Alliance, including, front to back, Ryan Harr, Camryn Monk, Roger Davis and Dave Andrews, downstream as they float stock over a mile of Thorn Creek in Butler County on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Dennis Goehring, of New Sewickley, center, and two of his grandkids, Justin Wagner, 9, of Mars, left, and Dean Newkirk, 6, of Mars, grin ear to ear as they watch trout swim away after they released them into Thorn Creek in Butler County on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Volunteer Rick Kelly, of Butler, stocks trout in Thorn Creek on Monday, March 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Joe Baker, with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, top center, and Kim Tabbacchi, top right, hand a bucket full of trout to volunteers on the ground along Thorn Creek in Butler County on Monday, March, 20, 2023. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
