Wyoming Game & Fish Department May 22nd 2025

Each year, PRVFF participants and leadership gather to assist the Wyoming game and Fish Department in stocking efforts in the Pole Mountain region of Southeast Wyoming.  A great time is had by all (including the next generation of anglers) and the beaver ponds in this area continue to have a resource of angling opportunity not too far from home

“All of us with the Laramie Region Fisheries Management Crew and the Dan Speas Fish Hatchery would like to sincerely thank the Platte Rivers Veterans Fly Fishing members for their assistance on May 22, 2025 with our annual beaver pond fish stocking.

This stocking effort has taken place annually for over 30 years. Thanks to your efforts, we successfully stocked 12,500 Brook Trout throughout the Pole Mountain unit. Pole Mountain beaver ponds are heavily used fisheries in southeastern Wyoming. Your assistance is crucial for maintaining this quality resource and we cannot thank you enough for helping. We, at Game and Fish, thoroughly enjoyed spending a day with your members and appreciate the effort and company (and of course the lunches!) y’all provided.”

Sincerely,
Stephen Siddons
Caroline Rosinski
Bobby Compton

A child holding a bucket stands next to an adult, with a man in the background engaged in stocking fish near a pond surrounded by trees and grass.
An adult man in an orange shirt shows two children how to stock fish from a bucket into a pond during a fish stocking event.
An adult and a child are seen near a pond on a sunny day, with the adult assisting the child in pouring fish from a bucket into the water.
A person pouring brook trout from a bucket into a tank with bubbling water during a fish stocking event.
Group of volunteers, including children, gathered around buckets during a fish stocking event in a natural outdoor setting, with mountains and trees in the background.
Children and adults gathered around buckets filled with Brook Trout during a fish stocking event in Southeast Wyoming.
Two individuals, one adult and one child, stand by a pond holding a bucket, with several people in the background participating in a fish stocking event in a natural landscape.
Four individuals gather by a beaver pond in Southeast Wyoming, with two children observing the water, as they participate in an annual fish stocking event.
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