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Rensselaer County

Poesten Kill

NYSDEC reported 4,300 trout stocked in Poesten Kill (Rensselaer County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is April 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

NYSDEC data pulled .

Poesten Kill in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
4,300
yearly average, 2015–2024
5,476
years stocked since 2011
15
Stocking log

Every stocking record

DEC stocking lists for the last three years on record, by month and species, newest first, then yearly totals, and the spring plan DEC published for this water. DEC lists each batch with its average length; where a month has several batches the range is shown.

Last stocked, April 20254,3004,300 brown trout
Spring 2026 plan
When (DEC wording)SpeciesFishSize
April - second week 2026Brown trout1,9509– 10 inches
April - second week 2026Brown trout24012–15 inches
2025 · 4,300 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
AprilBrown trout4,30087.1–13.9 in
2024 · 4,500 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
NovemberRainbow trout2,00016 in
AprilBrown trout2,500108.2–13.7 in
2023 · 3,410 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
AprilBrown trout3,410108.9–13.1 in
Every year since 2011
YearFish
20254,300
20244,500
20233,410
20223,440
20213,410
20205,900
20197,030
20186,880
20176,560
20166,830
20156,800
20146,820
20135,850
20126,090
20116,730
2011 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

DEC’s lists end with the latest year it has published. The tallest year is yellow.

  1. 6.7k2011: 6,730 fish
  2. 6.1k2012: 6,090 fish
  3. 5.8k2013: 5,850 fish
  4. 6.8k2014: 6,820 fish
  5. 6.8k2015: 6,800 fish
  6. 6.8k2016: 6,830 fish
  7. 6.6k2017: 6,560 fish
  8. 6.9k2018: 6,880 fish
  9. 7.0k2019: 7,030 fish
  10. 5.9k2020: 5,900 fish
  11. 3.4k2021: 3,410 fish
  12. 3.4k2022: 3,440 fish
  13. 3.4k2023: 3,410 fish
  14. 4.5k2024: 4,500 fish
  15. 4.3k2025: 4,300 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2011
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout82,55098%
Rainbow trout2,0002%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Rensselaer County waters

No single map point is given for this water in the USGS names database, so no map is shown.

Also in Rensselaer County: Kinderhook Creek.

Source: DEC fish stocking lists (actual), data.ny.gov and the DEC spring trout stocking plan, data.ny.gov, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Pulled . Check the agency and the current fishing rules before you go.