The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently announced changes to its adult trout stocking programs for 2013, including three in northwestern Pennsylvania waters:

1. Buhl Lake, in Mercer County, near Sharon, has been added to the stocking list. The 7-acre lake will be stocked with rainbow trout during the preseason and inseason periods.

2. A section of Caldwell Creek, in Warren County, will no longer receive adult trout. Finglering trout will be stocked during the fall from 2012 to 2014 in the Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only section that runs 1.4 miles from Selkirk Bridge downstream to Stony Hollow Run, half a mile upstream of Dotyville Bridge.

3. Little Sandy Creek, in Venango County, also will see only finglering stocked in a Catch and Release Fly Fishing Only section of stream. The stretch is 1.3 miles, from the old bridge at Polk Center Pump House downstream to the Route 3024 bridge on Savannah Road.

Adult trout stockings in Erie County will start in earnest March 28 on French Creek.

The majority of stockings will take place in the days before April 13, the statewide opening day. East Basin and West Basin ponds at Presque Isle State Park and Upper Gravel Pit in Fairview were stocked in early February and will be stocked again in the preseason and after the opener.

Crawford County stockings started this past week in Little Sugar and continue this week in North Deer Creek and East Oil Creek.

To check stocking dates and times for all northwestern Pennsylvania counties and streams, visit the Pennsyvania Fish and Boat Commission’s adult trout stockings page. Select a county, then select start and end dates and press “Go.”

A few sites in Erie County will be stocked with trout today by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and volunteers.

East Basin Pond and West Basin Pond at Presque Isle State Park and Upper Gravel Pit in Fairview each will be stocked with brown trout at 1 p.m. The trout are being supplied by the Benner Spring hatchery.

No other stockings are scheduled in Erie County until late March. A number of sites in Crawford County are scheduled to be stocked throughout March.

The statewide opening day is April 13.

Trout stocking dates and times have changed for the basin ponds at Presque Isle State Park, Cascade Creek, Crooked Creek and two sections of Elk Creek.

The East Basin Pond and West Basin Pond at Presque Isle; Cascade Creek; and Crooked Creek will be stocked on April 17 at 2 p.m. instead of on April 24 at10 a.m. Volunteers or observers may meet the stocking truck at the Niagara boat launch parking lot at Presque Isle.

Elk Creek will be stocked April 18 at 1:45 p.m. instead of April 24 at 9:45 a.m. Meet at McKean Exit 39 off of Interstate 79.

The statewide trout season opening day is Saturday at 8 a.m. Check more preseason and in-season stocking schedules on the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission site.

Two major changes to the adult trout stocking program in northwestern Pennsylvania — one welcome, one not so much.

1. A 3.9-mile section of French Creek in Erie County will be stocked in the preseason with brown and rainbow trout. The stream section runs from the New York border to the confluence with the West Branch of French Creek.

2. A 2-9 section of Coffee Creek in Warren County has been removed from the stocking list. According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, it’s because of a combination of low angler use and poor access.