Fishing & Boating · email alerts for New England, New York and Pennsylvania
Stocking reports from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, plus dam releases, lake levels, ice-out and storm warnings for your boat.
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Bought in winter? Lake levels, dam releases and Vermont ice-fishing derbies run now. Stocking, tournaments and the boating forecast start in March and April. Your year runs 12 months from the day you buy.
All six packs, your boat’s slip or the camp as a second place, and a copy of each alert to a second email.
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Sample alerts from real days
CT DEEP posts the water and the date only, not the kind or number of fish.
About 4 miles from Home.
Per CT DEEP trout stocking map.
Sample alert: a real stocking this week in North Stonington, CT, from CT DEEP’s trout stocking map.
PFBC lists a meeting place for volunteers: Boiling Springs PO, 9:30 am. PFBC says stocking dates can change without notice.
Per PA Fish and Boat Commission trout stocking schedule.
Sample alert: a real April stocking near Boiling Springs, PA. Pennsylvania posts its schedule a week ahead; the other states post stockings once they’re done, and we email you the day we see them.
Water below a dam can rise quickly and stay high for hours. The Corps posts its readings as they come in; they are provisional.
Per U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ball Mountain Dam (outflow), as of Sat Sep 19, 9:15 am.
Sample alert: a real September release on the West River, VT, from Army Corps of Engineers records.
Check lines, fenders and chafe gear before it arrives, or ask the harbor or marina to look at the boat.
“Northeast winds 25 to 35 kt with gusts up to 55 kt and seas 7 to 10 feet expected.”
Per National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA, as of Thu Sep 24, 12:06 pm.
Sample alert: a real storm warning for Buzzards Bay and the Cape Cod sounds, from the National Weather Service in Norton, MA.
A Fishing & Boating reader at a lake camp in Wolfeboro, NH would have gotten 40 emails from January through October 2026, about one a week: 37 from Fishing & Boating (mostly trout stocking and ice-out & ice-fishing derbies) and 3 with only free alerts (meteor showers & clear skies).
| Month | Emails | Free alerts only |
|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0 |
| March | 0 | 0 |
| April | 10 | 0 |
| May | 19 | 1 |
| June | 8 | 0 |
| July | 0 | 0 |
| August | 1 | 1 |
| September | 0 | 0 |
| October | 2 | 1 |
We ran that year's real weather and agency records through the same rules that send our alerts. Where an alert reads a forecast, the weather that actually came stood in for it. The busiest month was May, with 19. You can turn off any alert you don't want.
Each state posts its own. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont report waters as they’re stocked, Pennsylvania posts its schedule ahead, and New York publishes a spring plan. We email when a stocking is reported or planned for waters near you.
It changes with each lake and winter. We estimate it from the winter’s cold and the spring’s warmth, a model fitted on years of records for 23 lakes that lands within about 4 days on average, and send one heads-up. It’s an estimate, never a call on whether the ice is safe.
Flows below six release dams, from USGS gauges: the Deerfield at Charlemont, MA, the Kennebec at The Forks and the Dead River in Maine, the Sacandaga and the Salmon River in New York, and Tohickon Creek in Pennsylvania, plus New York’s Hudson River–Black River Regulating District schedule.
Updated November 2026.
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