![Emilio Quiles of Dover wears a GoPro camera on his head as he nets himself a trout on opening day of trout season March 5 at Tidbury Pond near Dover. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Emilio Quiles of Dover wears a GoPro camera on his head as he nets himself a trout on opening day of trout season March 5 at Tidbury Pond near Dover. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Ray Strong of New Castle is happy with his catch after casting his line into Tidbury Pond Saturday morning with hundreds of other anglers there for the March 5 opening day of the downstate trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Ray Strong of New Castle is happy with his catch after casting his line into Tidbury Pond Saturday morning with hundreds of other anglers there for the March 5 opening day of the downstate trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Jason McMullin of Townsend shows off his first catch of the day from Dover’s Tidbury Pond during the March 5 opening day of the downstate spring trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Jason McMullin of Townsend shows off his first catch of the day from Dover’s Tidbury Pond during the March 5 opening day of the downstate spring trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Matthew Permelia, 7 of Leipsic holds up his catch on opening day, March 5, of trout season at Tidbury Pond. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Matthew Permelia, 7 of Leipsic holds up his catch on opening day, March 5, of trout season at Tidbury Pond. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Alexander Szell, 9, of Dover gets a bite on opening day of the downstate spring trout season at Tidbury Pond March 5. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Alexander Szell, 9, of Dover gets a bite on opening day of the downstate spring trout season at Tidbury Pond March 5. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Fishing at Tidbury Pond, Jacob Thuer, 18, and his girlfriend Morgan Zill, 19, both of Magnolia, caught three fish by 9 a.m. Saturday, the opening day of the downstate trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Fishing at Tidbury Pond, Jacob Thuer, 18, and his girlfriend Morgan Zill, 19, both of Magnolia, caught three fish by 9 a.m. Saturday, the opening day of the downstate trout season. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Anthony Cheseroni of Newark sits out at Tidbury Park south of Dover early Saturday, waiting for his first bite of the day after fishing for more than an hour on the first day of the downstate trout season on March 5. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Anthony Cheseroni of Newark sits out at Tidbury Park south of Dover early Saturday, waiting for his first bite of the day after fishing for more than an hour on the first day of the downstate trout season on March 5. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Payne DeRicco, 15, of Newark made the trip down to Dover at 6 a.m. Saturday to enjoy the first day of the downstate spring trout season on March 5. He was fishing Tidbury Pond. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Payne DeRicco, 15, of Newark made the trip down to Dover at 6 a.m. Saturday to enjoy the first day of the downstate spring trout season on March 5. He was fishing Tidbury Pond. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Volunteer Michael Todd, of Wyoming, dumps rainbow trout into Tidbury Pond March 3 as onlookers watch. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Volunteer Michael Todd, of Wyoming, dumps rainbow trout into Tidbury Pond March 3 as onlookers watch. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
![Fish farmer Jacqui Haag, of Richland, Pennsylvania, brought down hundreds of rainbow trout to Kent County to stock Tidbury Pond on March 3. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)]()
Fish farmer Jacqui Haag, of Richland, Pennsylvania, brought down hundreds of rainbow trout to Kent County to stock Tidbury Pond on March 3. (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers)
Anglers were out in force for the March 5 first day of trout season in Kent and Sussex counties with both Tidbury Pond near Dover and Newton Pond outside of Greenwood stocked, thanks to stocking by the Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife.
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Trout fishing at Tidbury and Newton is permitted one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset, unless otherwise restricted by area rules. The daily possession limit is six trout. The season opens April 2 upstate.
