About the project and method

This site shows when trout were stocked in 159 waters in Washington, Utah, Oregon and New York. For the 39 Washington lakes and ponds it shows when catchable-size trout were released, how many, and how that has changed since 2015. It is an independent project. It is not run by, or endorsed by, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).

Every release count comes from the public WDFW Fish Plants dataset on data.wa.gov (dataset 6fex-3r7d). The data was pulled on November 5, 2026, and the latest release in it is dated Oct 30, 2026. Anything stocked after that date is not on these pages.

The “Key information” panel on each lake page comes from that water’s page on the WDFW website, read on the same date. It names the source page and links to it. WDFW changes those pages, so treat them as a snapshot.

The Utah, Oregon and New York pages are built the same way, each from its own state agency’s public data. They are independent of those agencies too. Every page names its source and the date the data was pulled.

Utah: DWR fish stocking report, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, pulled Nov 5, 2026. One row per release with the date, species, number of fish and average length. Counts include fingerlings as well as catchable trout.

Oregon: ODFW trout stocking schedule, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, pulled Nov 5, 2026. This is a schedule, not a record of releases: the agency plans stocking week by week and can change it. Fish are counted by category (legal-size, trophy, broodstock, fingerling), without species.

New York: DEC fish stocking lists (actual), data.ny.gov, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pulled Nov 5, 2026. Stocking is listed by month, not by day, up to the latest year DEC has published, plus DEC’s spring plan.

For these states only trout, char, kokanee and landlocked salmon are counted. Map points come from the USGS Geographic Names Information System and are shown only for lakes and reservoirs with one clear point.

Only catchable-size releases are counted: the lifestages “Legals” and “Yearling”. Fry and fingerlings make up most of the fish count in the raw dataset, but they are not what anglers catch, so they are left out.

Release dates are the start date WDFW records for each release. Release counts are fish stocked, not fish caught.

Average weight is 1 divided by the “fish per pound” value WDFW reports for each batch. It is a batch average, not a promise about any one fish.

The year-to-date comparison sets 2026 so far against 2025 up to the same calendar date. The percentage on each lake page compares 2025 with that water’s own average for the years 2015 to 2025 that WDFW has records for.

Season shares group releases by month: spring is March to May, autumn is September to November. Every figure on a page is computed from the same records that are listed in the table on that page.

It is not a forecast. Stocking dates move from year to year, and a past pattern does not promise a future release. It is not fishing-rule advice either. Seasons, limits, closures and access change, so check WDFW and the current sport fishing rules before you go.

The stocking figures are pulled again from the WDFW dataset about once a month and every page is rebuilt from the new pull. Each lake page shows the latest release date in the data and the date the page was built. This version uses data through Oct 30, 2026, pulled on November 5, 2026.

The lake details from WDFW pages are re-read less often. Five of them were checked against the WDFW pages again on November 5, 2026.

If a number looks wrong, write to info@stockingrecord.com. Say which page and which figure, and the correction will be checked against the WDFW data.