Washington anglers: Start your boat engines.

Ahead of Thanksgiving weekend, the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife is loading more than two dozen lakes with nearly 65,000 jumbo rainbow trout, according to a recent WDFW news release. The goal: to give fishers an opportunity to spend time outdoors for the state’s annual Black Friday fishing.

Such holiday trout measure up to 17 inches and weigh up to 3 pounds each, the department says.

The state’s Black Friday fishing event has been around for more than a decade, noted Steve Caromile, WDFW inland fish program manager.

“We stock jumbo trout in lakes near communities, making it easy to spend a few hours on the water with friends and family,” Caromile said in the Nov. 13 release.

Lakes and ponds getting the trout-stock treatment ahead

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