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billfish, the state stocks browns last. With some exceptions and overlaps, brookies are stocked first, then rainbows, and then browns. The reason being is that brookies are thought to be relatively easy to catch and are the least hardy in regards to water temps. Browns are supposedly the hardest to catch and are thought to be fairly hardy when it comes to temps so they are stocked last. Rainbows are in the middle somewhere...tolerant of higher water temps and thought to be fairly easy to catch.

As for the water in which the browns are stocked, I am fairly sure they're stocked in most waters....but, as i mentioned earlier, they are not supposed to be stocked in the LV area of the SBR. There is a cutoff point somehwere in califon where the state restricts the stocking of browns from that point upstream. There is a large population of wild browns in the LV area of the SBR and if youre not catching them, I don't know what to tell you. As you fish, you'll tend to find that the brookies and browns tend to hold in different sections of the streams. Obviously there will be overlap but you will notice areas that have more brookies than browns and vice versa.

For a couple years I helped to stock the musky and can assure you there were tons of brown trout stocked in the later weeks...as im sure there were again this year.