The Nevada Department of Wildlife has begun its annual trout stocking program in the Las Vegas area with successful plants at each of the local urban ponds.

They are located at Floyd Lamb, Lorenzi and Sunset parks in the Las Vegas Valley and at Veterans Memorial Park in Boulder City. Hafen Park in Mesquite is scheduled to receive trout in the near future.

Department stocking plans call for trout plants to resume at Lake Mead and Lake Mohave on Nov. 20 and Nov. 24, respectively.

Thereafter, the department will generally plant trout in Lake Mead every Friday with some scheduling adjustments to provide angling opportunity during holiday weeks.

The agency will plant trout at Lake Mohave every other Thursday beginning Dec. 10.

As a rule the urban ponds will receive trout every other week. Stocking activities should continue into March as long as water temperatures remain cold enough.

Following the discovery of quagga mussels in the Colorado River system and the Lake Mead Hatchery in early 2007, the department began bringing trout for the urban fisheries from the agency's Mason Valley Hatchery near Yerington.

That means the actual dates and times of each trout plant will be dependent on road conditions and travel time between Mason Valley and Las Vegas.

At Lake Mead trout will be released at Crawdad Cove off of Northshore Road, at Boulder Harbor where Lake Mead Marina used to be and near the Hemenway fishing point.

At Lake Mohave, the department will generally plant fish at Placer Cove and Aztec Wash though the agency will periodically release trout at Cottonwood Cove, Powerline Cove and the area below Hoover Dam.