** NOTE ** Tickets to this event can be purchased HERE
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On Saturday, March 28th, Troutbitten is hosting a live podcast at New Trail Brewing Company in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Join us for good times and an important conversation. With your ticket purchase, your first drink is on the house, and we have a sticker for you. Also, part of the proceeds benefit Clearwater Conservancy. Here are the details:
Topic
The Harm of Stocking Over Wild Trout — Policy, Reality and the Future
Across the country, wild trout management is at a crossroads with hatchery fish. From the economics to the ecological consequences, the practice of stocking trout must be considered responsibly.
Panel
Domenick Swentosky, Bill Dell, Trevor Smith and Austin Dando of Troutbitten, will be joined by James Suleski. James is an authority on the subject of stocked trout management, and he hosts the podcast, Finsyvlania.
Time
4:30 — Happy Hour Hangout with the Troutbitten Crew
6:00 — Podcast Recording
What is Live
This live podcast will later be published to the Troutbitten YouTube channel, as a video. And it will also be published to the audio side of the Troutbitten Podcast for Season 19. This event will not be livestreamed.
Tickets
$20 to reserve your seat. You will receive a beer token, and a “Stop Stocking Over Wild Trout” sticker at the door.
After your ticket purchase, we invite you to submit questions or comments for the event. We will include some of those submissions in our podcast discussion.
If you’d like to make a donation to this Troutbitten event, but you cannot attend, you can do that HERE.
Conservation
Part of the proceeds for this event will be donated to Clearwater Conservancy, in central Pennsylvania.
For over a decade, the primary conservation message of Troutbitten has been simple: Stop stocking over wild trout. This podcast conversation is an important continuation of that mission.
From our tying event at New Trail in March, 2023. — Photo by Josh Darling
Summary of Details
Date & Time
Sat, Mar 28, 2026
4:30 PM — Hangout
6:00 PM — Podcast
Location
New Trail Brewing Co.
240 Arch Street
Building #18
Williamsport, PA 17701
Cost
Tickets are $20.
Buy Tickets HERE
Let’s Do It
Once again, thanks to all of you who make these events possible. We sincerely appreciate your support. If you’re close enough to make it out to Williamsport, PA on a Saturday, we’d love to see you at New Trail.
Fish hard, friends.
Enjoy the day.
Domenick Swentosky
T R O U T B I T T E N
domenick@troutbitten.com
“When you stock fish, you stock the size you want to catch. The hatchery fish suppress wild fish that would grow larger. But the hatchery fish don’t live long enough to grow big”. Montana trout biologist Richard Vincent. 1974. Richard Vincent has been called the man that saved Montana’s trout fishery. Best of luck on your pod cast.
Thank you.
And yes, we’ve been on this issue for a long time. It’s not great, here in PA. So through the years, we’ve published a lot about wild vs stocked, and why wild trout matter.
Wild vs Stocked Resources