Trout Unlimited members Nate Wight, foreground, Rocky Freda, middle, and Scott Stone, all of Bethel, set out in their drift boats on the Androscoggin River in Gilead to stock 700 brown and rainbow trout Tuesday morning. For only the second time in Maine, volunteers floated fish down river in nets suspended by inner tubes. The trout are released two or three at a time near suitable habitat. The traditional method of stocking fish at one location results in an 80 percent mortality in the first two weeks, said Jeff Levesque, a Trout Unlimited member from Greene. The 8- to 10-inch fish were raised at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife fish hatchery in Casco and will grow to 14 to 16 inches by the end of the year, said Levesque. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal