Hard to believe that trout fishing in the valley has lasted this late into the year. Gone are the days of cleaning and ...

Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Helene cost the region 600,000 trout, and native brook trout populations may have been ...

In 2022, trout fishing alone brought $1.38 billion to the North Carolina economy, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Many of those trout are raised in the Bobby N. Setzer State Fish Hatchery ...

But this year, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in the region in late September, has brought ...

Nearly 600,000 trout grown by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission died at a McDowell County hatchery during the rains brought by Hurricane Helene, the state agency has reported. Landslides and ...

The Armstrong Hatchery is responsible for stocking trout in public waters across an 11-county region in Western North Carolina. Typically, Armstrong raises 20% to 30% of the trout that North Carolina ...