Quarry Pond

Quarry Pond is stocked little and often. In 2025 WDFW logged 9 release dates spread over 4 months, about 2,002 fish per release date, the first on Feb 26, 2025 and the last on May 29, 2025.

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

Open on a map

Map point 46.1501, -118.9428, as WDFW gives it for this water.

Key information

Size: 5.5 acres, 343 ft above sea level
Where: South of the Snake River mouth and Burbank Slough, west of US-12 along the Columbia River.
Bank fishing: Rated good. Public U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge land with good shoreline access all around the pond.
Boats: Fishing from any floating device is prohibited.
Stocking, per WDFW: Stocked several times in spring (late February to mid May) with 20,000 or more 10 to 12 inch rainbows and 400 jumbos over 14 inches.
Fish listed: Rainbow trout.
Rules to check: Year-round season. Two-pole fishing allowed. Only two trout over 13 inches may be kept within the five-trout daily limit.

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.

Quarry Pond in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 18,018
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 18,491
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 18,508 a year: −3%

2026 is running close to 2025: 18,491 fish through Oct 30, against 18,018 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 2,857 rainbow trout, went in on Apr 8, 2026, 211 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Quarry Pond as 5.5 acres in Walla Walla County, at 343 ft. It is the smaller of the 2 Walla Walla County waters on this site. For its size it is stocked heavily: about 3,276 catchable trout per acre in 2025, the 4th-highest rate 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, Apr 8, 20262,857rainbow trout, 7 oz each

Spring 2026

Apr 8Rainbow trout2,8572.3 per lb · avg 7 oz

Apr 1Rainbow trout2,5502.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 25Rainbow trout2,6542.3 per lb · avg 7 oz

Mar 5Rainbow trout5,4302.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Winter 2026

Feb 17Rainbow trout5,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Spring 2025

May 29Rainbow trout300.7 per lb · avg 1.4 lb

Apr 21Rainbow trout1,4502.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 17Rainbow trout2,5502.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Apr 2Rainbow trout500.7 per lb · avg 1.4 lb

Mar 24Rainbow trout2,5502.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 18Rainbow trout2,5002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 17Rainbow trout3,7502.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 10Rainbow trout2,4882.4 per lb · avg 7 oz

Winter 2025

Feb 26Rainbow trout2,6502.5 per lb · avg 6 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 2017, with 7 release dates and 22,396 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 6.5 release dates a year.

2015: 18,245 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2016: 19,793 catchable fish on 7 release dates
22k2017: 22,396 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2018: 20,617 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2019: 18,120 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2020: 20,246 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2021: 15,600 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2022: 14,522 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2023: 18,290 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2024: 17,745 catchable fish on 6 release dates
18k2025: 18,018 catchable fish on 9 release dates
18k2026 (to Oct 30): 18,491 catchable fish on 5 release dates

How big are these fish?

4 to 8 oz: 36,429 fish, 100%
1 to 2 lb: 80 fish, 0%

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 5,430 rainbow trout on Mar 5, 2026. The heaviest fish were 50 rainbow trout on Apr 2, 2025, at 0.7 per lb, about 1.4 lb each.

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

Closest waters on this site

All Walla Walla County waters Recent releases statewide

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Walla Walla County

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Columbia County

Spring Lake

Straight-line distance between the map points WDFW gives for each water, not driving distance.

Also in Walla Walla County: Bennington Lake.