Fenton River

Fishing, stocking, and current conditions

Trout water; one stocking on the 2026 record, in May. One of 24 stocked waters on the Tolland County record. A USGS gauge reports from this water, so the conditions card on this page is live.

Tolland County · Connecticut · see it on the national map

last stocked May 1 175 days ago

flow 90% of seasonal normal

best window 9:48-11:48 pm solunar major today

Water right now 3.30 ft gage height flow 6.18 cfs, about normal for Oct 23 USGS gauge 01121330 (FENTON RIVER AT MANSFIELD, CT) · read 8:15 pm this evening

1 stocking 2026

The year here

stocked last 7 days announced ahead · tap a tick for details

What swims here

Trout 1 stocking

Stocking record 2026

Agency feed checked today.

Date	Species	Size	Fish	Status
May 1	Trout	catchable		completed

When to fish Fenton River

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:25-11:25 am and 9:48-11:48 pm	3:41-4:41 am and 3:57-4:57 pm
Tomorrow	10:11 am-12:11 pm and 10:35 pm-12:35 am	4:51-5:51 am and 4:20-5:20 pm

Moon: waxing gibbous, 92% lit. These are solunar periods, the traditional feeding-time theory: majors around the moon's transit overhead and underfoot, minors around moonrise and moonset. Theory, not a measurement. Times are Eastern Time (EDT).

What the record actually says

Last stocked May 1
Flow near normal for the season

Computed this evening, Oct 23 · Connecticut fishing forecast

Gear for this water

It has been a while since the trucks came. The holdovers have spread out and wised up; downsize and fish natural.

For the trout (trout stocked 1 time here in 2026, moving water)

Drifted bait	single salmon egg or half a crawler under light split shot, rolled along the bottom
Small jerkbaits	floating minnows in the 2 to 3 inch class for the deeper bends
Waders or wet-wading boots	stocked stream fish stack in the obvious pools; getting to the next one is the edge

Suggestions follow from what the state actually stocks here and what kind of water it is, nothing else. No sponsored placements.

Nearby stocked waters

The closest waters with stocking pages of their own, straight-line miles from this one.

Water	Distance	Most recent
Lower Storrs Pumping Station Pond	2.8 mi	Mar 12
Bicentennial Pond	3.0 mi	Mar 12
Mount Hope River	3.3 mi	May 1
Mansfield Training Ponds	3.7 mi	Mar 12
Willimantic River (below TMA)	4.2 mi	May 14

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Records from Connecticut DEEP (official page). Placement from USGS GNIS. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Connecticut fishing regulations.