From early spring until the middle of summer, we are busy stocking ponds in the central Wisconsin area. We also keep a supply of fingerlings available for pond stocking. And now we have Atlantic salmon stock . Chuck prepares Rainbow Trout eggs for hatching trays. The eggs stay in these trays until they all hatch, and then they are released into concrete raceways and fed three to five times a day until they reach two to three inches.
Fingerlings are about three inches six months after hatching.
These are ready to be moved to outdoor earthen flow-through ponds. Chuck and Ben Anderson transfer rainbow trout into an outdoor grow out pond. These are one to two pound trout in the raceway.