Trout Stocking Reports and Season Openers
Enter a ZIP and see the stocked waters nearest you with the distance on every row, plus what Montana reported stocking lately from its own live record. Then the state view: which agency publishes the report, what goes in and when, and the opener where the agency has actually published one. Read September 3, 2026.
47 states stock trout, 7 publish the waters as geodata, and 3 have posted dated openersWhat has been stocked near you?
Registry built September 3, 2026Fifty states, fifty different answers
Almost every state that stocks trout publishes a stocking report. Very few publish one a machine can read, and fewer still attach coordinates to it. Here is the distribution.
Counted across the 47 states that stock trout, from each agency’s own published report as read on September 3, 2026. Only 7 of them publish the waters themselves as geodata, 5,227 waters in all, and those are the ones a ZIP can rank by distance.
The 7 states that publish stocked waters with coordinates
A stocking list that reads “Spring Creek, Centre County” is perfectly good for a person with a map and completely useless for answering “what is near me”, which needs a latitude and a longitude. Exactly 7 agencies publish their stocked waters as geodata: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Utah.
A water name on its own cannot be ranked by distance, and turning one into a pin invents precision: two creeks share a name, and a river reach is not a single point. Those states get their agency's own report instead, which is the fuller record anyway.
Which states have posted a dated opener
A wrong or stale season date is the one mistake on this subject that costs a reader something real. Every date below was read on an agency page for the season it names, with the year attached and the page it came from underneath.
- 19 states run no trout season opener at all. The water is open on the agency's own terms year round.
- 5 publish a recurring rule, not a date. “The first Saturday in May” is a rule the agency can change, so those states carry the rule in the agency's own words.
- 19 set seasons water by water or inside a regulations book, which the agency publishes itself, and 1 had not posted the coming season when checked.
- 3 have posted dated openers and those are reproduced with the year and the exact page they came from: Hawaii, Illinois, Rhode Island.
The rules that apply to the water. Regulations, licensing and permits are the state agency's. They change season to season and often water by water, and getting one wrong costs a reader a citation, so read them at the source. Every state page links the agency that publishes them.
Who publishes what, state by state
| State | Agency | Report form | Season opener | Waters with coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabama WFF | a page the agency updates | No season opener | not published |
| Alaska | ADF&G | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Arizona | AZGFD | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Arkansas | AGFC | season announcements | No season opener | not published |
| California | CDFW | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Colorado | CPW | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Connecticut | CT DEEP | a map application | Published by the agency | 302 |
| Delaware | DNREC | a page the agency updates | A recurring rule, not a date | not published |
| Georgia | Georgia DNR | a published document | No season opener | not published |
| Hawaii | Hawaii DAR | season announcements | Dates published | not published |
| Idaho | Idaho Fish and Game | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Illinois | IDNR | season announcements | Dates published | not published |
| Indiana | Indiana DNR | a searchable database | A recurring rule, not a date | not published |
| Iowa | Iowa DNR | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Kansas | KDWP | a page the agency updates | Published by the agency | not published |
| Kentucky | Kentucky Fish and Wildlife | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Maine | Maine IFW | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| Maryland | Maryland DNR | a dated table | A recurring rule, not a date | not published |
| Massachusetts | MassWildlife | a map application | No season opener | 552 |
| Michigan | Michigan DNR | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Minnesota | Minnesota DNR | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Missouri | MDC | a page the agency updates | Published by the agency | not published |
| Montana | Montana FWP | a machine readable feed | Published by the agency | 731 |
| Nebraska | Nebraska Game and Parks | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| Nevada | NDOW | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| New Hampshire | NH Fish and Game | a map application | Published by the agency | 478 |
| New Jersey | NJ Fish and Wildlife | a map application | Published by the agency | 202 |
| New Mexico | NM Game and Fish | season announcements | No season opener | not published |
| New York | NYSDEC | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| North Carolina | NC Wildlife | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| North Dakota | ND Game and Fish | a searchable database | No season opener | not published |
| Ohio | Ohio DNR | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Oklahoma | ODWC | a page the agency updates | A recurring rule, not a date | not published |
| Oregon | ODFW | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Pennsylvania | PFBC | a searchable database | Not yet published | not published |
| Rhode Island | RI DEM | a page the agency updates | Dates published | not published |
| South Carolina | SCDNR | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| South Dakota | SD GFP | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Tennessee | TWRA | a dated table | No season opener | 618 |
| Texas | TPWD | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Utah | Utah DWR | a dated table | No season opener | 2,344 |
| Vermont | Vermont Fish and Wildlife | a searchable database | Published by the agency | not published |
| Virginia | Virginia DWR | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Washington | WDFW | a dated table | Published by the agency | not published |
| West Virginia | WVDNR | a dated table | No season opener | not published |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsin DNR | a published document | A recurring rule, not a date | not published |
| Wyoming | WGFD | a searchable database | No season opener | not published |
By region
Northeast 9, Southeast 11, Midwest 12, Rockies 6, Southwest 4, West 5. Trout stocking is not a northern subject: the Southeast runs some of the largest put and take programmes in the country on cold water released from the bottom of dams, and the only reason Alabama has a trout fishery at all is that the discharge below Lewis Smith Dam stays under seventy degrees.
The three states that stock no trout
Three states run no trout stocking programme, each for a reason its own agency publishes. Their pages redirect here.
Florida
Florida has no coldwater trout fishery and the commission stocks no trout. Its two freshwater hatcheries, the Florida Bass Conservation Center at Richloam and the Blackwater Fisheries Center, produce largemouth bass, black crappie, white bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, channel catfish, striped and sunshine bass, threadfin shad and triploid grass carp. There is no trout line in that list because there is no water in the state cold enough to need one.
Louisiana
Louisiana runs no trout stocking programme, and the fish Louisiana anglers call speckled trout is a spotted seatrout, a saltwater drum with no relationship to a rainbow or a brook trout at all. No part of the state holds water cold enough through summer for a coldwater fishery, stocked or wild.
Mississippi
Mississippi runs no trout stocking programme. The department's freshwater hatchery and stocking work is warmwater: bass, crappie, catfish and bream into state lakes and reservoirs. There is no coldwater tailwater in the state of the kind that gives neighbouring Alabama its single trout fishery.
Trout stocking questions
Water near you, other subjects
5,227 stocked waters across 7 states are in this site's registry, built September 3, 2026. Agency records were read September 3, 2026. A stocking record is what an agency reported for a date, not a count of fish in a water today.