The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has stocked Elkin Creek with hatchery-raised trout.  These trout provide local residents with fishing opportunities.  Anglers can harvest a maximum of seven trout per day, with no minimum size limits or bait restrictions. Trout released into the Elkin Creek was noted to be more than 14-inches long at the time of their release into the creek. 

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North Carolina hatcheries raise more than a half-million brook, brown and rainbow trout annually for release into North Carolina’s more than 1,000 miles of hatchery-supported public waters.  In addition to trout, the stream is stock monthly from May until September with channel catfish. 

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Look for the Hatchery Supported signs along the trail, and in the future, Catch and Release signs: