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Fillmore County

South Branch Root River

The Minnesota DNR reports 198,373 trout stocked in South Branch Root River (Fillmore County) in 2025, the latest year in its lake stocking report. The DNR reports stocking by year, not by day. Minnesota DNR lists it as “Root River, South Branch”.

Minnesota DNR data pulled .

South Branch Root River, Minnesota
Photo: S. Clyde, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

South Branch Root River in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
198,373
yearly average, 2020–2024
162,951
years stocked since 2020
6
Stocking log

Every stocking record

Every trout stocking the DNR reports for this lake, by year, species and size class (fry, fingerlings, yearlings, adults), newest first.

Stocked in 2025198,373160,173 brown trout; 22,000 brook trout; 16,200 rainbow trout
Every year since 2020
YearSpeciesSizeFish
2025Brook troutfingerlingsfingerlings22,000
2025Brown troutfingerlingsfingerlings160,000
2025Brown troutadultsadults173
2025Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings12,600
2025Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings3,600
2024Brook troutyearlingsyearlings1,185
2024Brook troutfingerlingsfingerlings37,000
2024Brown troutfingerlingsfingerlings159,000
2024Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings12,600
2024Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings5,850
2023Brown troutadultsadults100
2023Brown troutfingerlingsfingerlings177,000
2023Rainbow troutadultsadults36
2023Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings3,950
2023Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings16,600
2022Brown troutyearlingsyearlings876
2022Brown troutfingerlingsfingerlings188,000
2022Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings12,550
2022Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings6,250
2021Brown troutfingerlingsfingerlings154,483
2021Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings5,375
2021Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings16,600
2020Rainbow troutfingerlingsfingerlings12,600
2020Rainbow troutyearlingsyearlings4,700
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

Shown from 2020 to 2025, the latest year the DNR has published. The tallest year is yellow.

  1. 17k2020: 17,300 fish
  2. 176k2021: 176,458 fish
  3. 208k2022: 207,676 fish
  4. 198k2023: 197,686 fish
  5. 216k2024: 215,635 fish
  6. 198k2025: 198,373 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout839,63283%
Rainbow trout113,31111%
Brook trout60,1856%

Where it is

Minnesota trout stockingAll Fillmore County waters

This is a stream, and a stream has no single map point, so no map is shown.

Also in Fillmore County: Wisel Creek, Duschee Creek, Willow Creek, South Fork Root River, Lynch Creek, Lanesboro Park Pond Stream, Rice Creek, Camp Creek.

Source: DNR lake stocking report, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Pulled . Check the agency and the current fishing rules before you go.