The rescue took place just before the season's first rainstorm, which is believed to have buried the remaining trout in mud.

All across Pennsylvania, freshwater lakes are being stocked with new supplies of trout in advance of the start of statewide ...

It takes fish about two years to grow enough that they can be moved from the tanks to the wild. When Helene hit, there were trout at Armstrong as small as a couple of inches and as large as 14 inches.