Rowland Lake

Rowland Lake is stocked little and often. In 2025 WDFW logged 8 release dates spread over 5 months, about 2,538 fish per release date, the first on Jan 6, 2025 and the last on Dec 31, 2025.

WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated November 5, 2026.

Key information

Size: 71.3 acres, 77 ft above sea level
Where: About four miles east of Bingen. State Route 14 splits the lake. Nearest town named by WDFW: Bingen.
Bank fishing: Rated good for physically able walking anglers, but shore access is rocky and limited.
Boats: Rough, unimproved WDFW boat launch on the north side.
Stocking, per WDFW: Only the north lake is stocked. Catchable and broodstock rainbow trout are planted from late December through May.
Fish listed: Brown bullhead, bluegill, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, white crappie, yellow bullhead, yellow perch, rainbow trout.
Rules to check: Two-pole fishing allowed. No lake-specific restrictions listed.

From the WDFW page for this water, read on November 5, 2026. Access, rules and closures change, so check that page and the current fishing rules before you go.

Rowland Lake in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 20,300
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 18,000
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 21,593 a year: −6%

2026 is running close to 2025: 18,000 fish through Oct 30, against 18,100 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 3,000 rainbow trout, went in on Jun 1, 2026, 157 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Rowland Lake as 71.3 acres in Klickitat County, at 77 ft. Its 2025 stocking came to about 285 catchable trout per acre, 15th of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage.

Release log

Every release since January 2025

14 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.

Latest batch, Jun 1, 20263,000rainbow trout, 7 oz each

Summer 2026

Jun 1Rainbow trout3,0002.3 per lb · avg 7 oz

Spring 2026

Apr 21Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 20Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 13Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 8Rainbow trout3,0002.6 per lb · avg 6 oz

Winter 2026

Jan 15Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Autumn 2025

Nov 26Rainbow trout2,0000.9 per lb · avg 1.1 lb

Summer 2025

Jun 3Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Spring 2025

Apr 22Rainbow trout3,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 21Rainbow trout3,0002.6 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 16Rainbow trout6,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Winter 2025

Dec 31Rainbow trout1000.2 per lb · avg 5.0 lb

Dec 18Rainbow trout1000.2 per lb · avg 5.0 lb

Jan 6Rainbow trout3,1001.8 per lb · avg 9 oz

2015 – 2026

Fish released each year

2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2023, with 13 release dates and 26,469 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 9.9 release dates a year.

2015: 19,851 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2016: 22,244 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2017: 22,355 catchable fish on 10 release dates
2018: 24,586 catchable fish on 11 release dates
2019: 20,896 catchable fish on 11 release dates
2020: 22,031 catchable fish on 13 release dates
2021: 19,578 catchable fish on 8 release dates
2022: 18,926 catchable fish on 8 release dates
26k2023: 26,469 catchable fish on 13 release dates
2024: 20,285 catchable fish on 9 release dates
20k2025: 20,300 catchable fish on 8 release dates
18k2026 (to Oct 30): 18,000 catchable fish on 6 release dates

How big are these fish?

4 to 8 oz: 33,000 fish, 86%
8 to 16 oz: 3,100 fish, 8%
1 to 2 lb: 2,000 fish, 5%
2 lb and over: 200 fish, 1%

Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.

Notes from the records

The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 6,000 rainbow trout on Apr 16, 2025. The heaviest fish were 100 rainbow trout on Dec 31, 2025, at 0.2 per lb, about 5.0 lb each.

Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.