The Little Compton Grange will host a fishing derby for ages 14 and under, starting at 6 AM on Saturday, April 14 and continuing on Sunday, April 15 at Ponderosa Pond in Little Compton, owned by Sakonnet Preservation Association.
The Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announces that the 2012 trout and general freshwater fishing season will begin at 6 a.m. on Saturday, April 14. More than 20,000 anglers are expected to turn out at dawn on opening day all over Rhode Island. Approximately 80,000 hatchery-raised brook, brown, and rainbow trout with an average individual weight of one and a half pounds are being stocked by division staff in more than 100 ponds and streams for opening day.
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