About Stocker Trout Fishing
Stocker Trout Fishing answers one question fast: when was a lake, river, or pond last stocked with fish? We mirror official stocking reports and schedules published by state wildlife agencies, keep a per-water history, and send email alerts when a water you follow is stocked.
What we cover
- New York - NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (annual archive (month precision)). Official source
- California - California Department of Fish and Wildlife (weekly plant schedule). Official source
- plus East Bay Regional Park District (Anglers Edge) - EBRPD stocks its own East Bay lakes (Del Valle, Lake Chabot in Alameda County, Shadow Cliffs, Quarry Lakes, Contra Loma, Temescal); these never appear in CDFW's schedule, so we ingest EBRPD's plant table directly.
- Washington - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW-Fish Plants open dataset, 1995 to date (daily)). Official source
- plus its own trout plant report - a few plants - surplus adult steelhead, mostly - appear in this weekly report and never reach the open dataset, so we poll it too and publish only what the dataset is missing.
- Utah - Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (stocking report (daily in season)). Official source
- South Carolina - South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (weekly trout summary (2-week window - we archive what SCDNR overwrites)). Official source
- West Virginia - West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (daily in-season stocking announcements). Official source
- Montana - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FishMT plant records (archive back to 1923)). Official source
- Idaho - Idaho Department of Fish and Game (fishing planner stocking records (archive back to 1967)). Official source
- Michigan - Michigan Department of Natural Resources (stocking database (archive back to 1979)). Official source
- New Hampshire - New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (stocking map data (near real-time in season)). Official source
What we do NOT cover
Every other state, for now (Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia, and Missouri are next on the list). We also only know what each agency publishes: private club stockings and unreported plants are not here, and tribal, utility and federal releases only where a state agency compiles them (Washington's dataset does; most do not). A water missing from this site may still be stocked - check your state's wildlife agency. Useful starting points: the US Fish & Wildlife hatchery system and your state agency's fishing page.
How fresh is the data?
Scraped state reports refresh daily; New York's statewide list is an annual archive published by DEC with month precision. Every page shows the date we last checked its source, and a site-wide banner appears if a daily feed stops refreshing. Scheduled plants (California's weekly plan) are labeled scheduled and are subject to change by the agency.
Who runs this?
Stocker Trout Fishing is an independent project maintained by the Stocker Trout Fishing team. We are not affiliated with any government agency. Records are shown verbatim as published; corrections go through the data & corrections policy.