Trout Stocking in Wyoming

Name: Trout stocking reporting and season openers in Wyoming
Creator: Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Over 5 million fish a year into more than 450 waters. WGFD publishes its stocked waters as names rather than coordinates, so the agency’s own stocking report is where to look them up. Every figure here was read from the agency's own page on September 3, 2026.

Wyoming runs no statewide trout season opener

Who publishes it

WGFD

Report form

A database

Season opener

No opener

Waters as geodata

Not published

What has been stocked near you in Wyoming?

Registry built September 3, 2026

Where the stocking answer lives. Which agency publishes the stocking record for your state, what that record covers, the season opener where the agency has actually published one, and a link straight to the page that governs. Regulations and licensing are the agency’s, and every state page links it.

The source that governs

Where Wyoming publishes its stocking record

Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes stocking records back to 1985 with the date, species, number, average size, water, county and hatchery. It comes out as updated monthly, which is the cadence to plan around: anything faster than that is not being published, and anything on this page is older than that by definition.

Today’s Wyoming stocking report

WGFD fish stocking report

Published by Wyoming Game and Fish Department. It carries stocking records back to 1985 with the date, species, number, average size, water, county and hatchery, as a searchable database, published updated monthly.

Check it the day you go. Stocking schedules move inside a week. Trucks get rerouted, hatcheries hold fish back when a creek runs too warm, and a planned stocking becomes a completed one or a cancelled one without notice.

A stocking record is what the agency reported for a date. It is not a promise that fish are in that water now. Fish move, they get caught, and a popular stretch can be fished down over one weekend. The record is history. It is genuinely useful history, and it is still history.

The rules that apply to the water. Regulations, licensing and permits for Wyoming are Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s, and it publishes every one of them. They change season to season and often water by water, and getting one wrong costs you a citation, so read them there before you fish.

Link check: this page was loaded directly on September 3, 2026. If it has moved since, Wyoming Game and Fish Department is the authority and its own site search is the fastest way back to it.

Crew loading trout from a raceway onto a Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery truck in early morning fog — Loading out at dawn. The count that ends up in a stocking report is made here, at the hatchery, before the truck leaves. “Loading Trout onto truck at Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery (8744463592)” — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region — Public domain

Season

How WGFD sets the Wyoming trout season

Most states do not publish a single dated statewide trout opener. Here is exactly what WGFD does publish.

No season opener

No bar is drawn here because WGFD has published no dates for this site to draw. Drawing one anyway would be a guess with a calendar around it.

This state runs no trout season opener; the water is open on the agency's own terms year round.

Wyoming does not run a statewide trout opener; most waters are open all year and the department publishes exceptions in its own regulations.

Read from Fish Stocking Report, Wyoming Game and Fish Department on September 3, 2026.

Where to look

Where to find Wyoming stocked waters

WGFD publishes which waters it stocks. What it does not publish is those waters as coordinates, and a stocking list that reads “Spring Creek, Centre County” is perfectly good for a person with a map and completely useless for a distance ranking. Only 7 agencies publish geodata: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Utah.

This site could geocode Wyoming water names into coordinates and put pins on a map. It does not, because that process quietly invents precision: two creeks share a name, a river reach becomes a point, and the reader gets a map that looks authoritative and is wrong in ways nobody can see. The agency's own list is better than anything that could be rebuilt from it here.

Over 5 million fish a year into more than 450 waters. The window WGFD describes is: april to about mid July, then again from mid September to mid November.

Summarised from WGFD fish stocking report in our own words.

US Fish and Wildlife Service tanker truck being filled from a covered hatchery raceway through a wide hose — Fish moving from raceway to tank. A stocking schedule is a plan for trips like this one, and plans change with water temperature. “Fish Stocking (34276630984)” — USFWSmidwest — Public domain

How Wyoming does it

The Wyoming trout programme

Wyoming publishes stocking records back to 1985, which turns the stocking report into something closer to a fishery history than a schedule: you can see what a water has been given for forty years. The department's own account of the annual rhythm is unusually specific, starting in April, holding steady until the heat of mid July, picking up again as the water cools in mid September and stopping in mid November. Kokanee, splake, golden trout, rainbow and Yellowstone cutthroat all move on those trucks.

What goes in, and when. Over 5 million fish a year into more than 450 waters. April to about mid July, then again from mid September to mid November.

Brook trout swimming over a cobble stream bed showing pale vermiculations along its back — A brook trout over cobble. Several states stock brook trout into water that once held them wild, which is why a stocked water and a native one can look identical. “Brook trout swims in native stream underwater fish image” — Eric Engbretson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Public domain

How this record was checked. Fish stocking report app fetched and confirmed on 2026-09-03, title "WGFD - Fish Stocking Report". The April to mid July and mid September to mid November rhythm, the records back to 1985 and the 450 waters figure were read from wgfd.wyo.gov through a search restricted to that domain.

Nearby

The rest of the Rockies

How Wyoming's neighbours publish, read September 3, 2026.
State	Agency	Report form	Season opener
Colorado	CPW	a dated table	No season opener
Idaho	Idaho Fish and Game	a searchable database	Published by the agency
Montana	Montana FWP	a machine readable feed	Published by the agency
Nevada	NDOW	a dated table	No season opener
Utah	Utah DWR	a dated table	No season opener

Questions

Wyoming trout stocking questions

Where does Wyoming publish its trout stocking report?

Does a stocking record mean there are trout in the water now?

When does trout season open in Wyoming?

What does Wyoming stock, and when?

Where are the Wyoming stocked waters listed?

Where do the Wyoming rules and licensing live?

Elsewhere on this site

Water near you, other subjects

Lake guidesThe lakes themselves: where they are, what they are like and what else is on them. This page is stocking records; that one is the water.Salmon run timingWild salmon runs and when they move, which is a different fish, a different agency question and a different calendar from a stocking truck.Wyoming river levelsWhat the USGS gauges are reading right now, against the NWS flood stages for the same river.

5,227 stocked waters across 7 states are in this site's registry, built September 3, 2026. Agency records were read September 3, 2026.