The week in stocking

Week of October 12, 2026

471 stockings on the record across 24 states, 861,940 fish reported.

Archived week (Oct 12 to Oct 18); numbers reflect the record as it stands today.

471 stocking records

861,940 fish reported

24 states stocking

400 waters

The biggest stockings

The largest single-day plants on the week's record, by reported count.

Fish	Water	State	Date	Species
162,717	Laurel Hill Lake	Tennessee	Oct 13	bluegill
95,242	Tims Ford	Tennessee	Oct 14	unmapped:blacknose black crappie
70,787	Tims Ford	Tennessee	Oct 13	unmapped:blacknose black crappie
49,368	Bill Dance Lake	Tennessee	Oct 15	mixed species
49,045	Normandy	Tennessee	Oct 14	unmapped:blacknose black crappie
35,002	Deer Creek Reservoir Wasatch Co.	Utah	Oct 14	rainbow trout
34,348	Normandy	Tennessee	Oct 15	unmapped:blacknose black crappie
24,710	Minersville Reservoir Beaver Co.	Utah	Oct 13	rainbow trout
24,570	Otter Creek Reservoir Piute Co.	Utah	Oct 13	cutbow trout
22,630	Roses Lake Chelan Co.	Washington	Oct 12	rainbow trout

State by state

State	Stockings	Fish
Maine	146	59,155
Nebraska	30	21,738
Connecticut	29
Kentucky	29	30,250
Tennessee	27	490,601
New Jersey	25	18,160
Virginia	22
New Mexico	19	25,428
South Dakota	19	40,123
California	18
Colorado	13
Nevada	13	22,258
Utah	12	108,782
Pennsylvania	10
Washington	9	28,891
North Carolina	8
Oregon	8	10,250
South Carolina	8
Vermont	8	4,154
West Virginia	7
Massachusetts	5
Maryland	4	2,150
Alabama	1
Delaware	1

Turning on, turning off

Back on the record this week: Alabama, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia (no dated stockings the week before).

Went quiet: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Rhode Island (stocked the week before, nothing dated this week).

Schedule changes

Published dates that moved, changed, or disappeared this week, caught by the daily diff.

2026-10-15 Reser Reservoir (MT): species revised
2026-10-15 State Fair Park Pond (UT): species revised
2026-10-15 State Fair Park Pond (UT): species revised
2026-10-15 State Fair Park Pond (UT): species revised
2026-10-15 State Fair Park Pond (UT): species revised
2026-10-15 Muddy Creek (PA): moved from Oct 2 to Oct 22
2026-10-15 Conewago Creek (PA): moved from Oct 1 to Oct 21
2026-10-15 Conewago Creek (PA): moved from Oct 1 to Oct 21
2026-10-15 Removed: Walton Lake (OR): Trout, was Jul 12 2027
2026-10-15 Removed: Walter Wirth Lake (OR): Trout, was May 3 2027
2026-10-15 Removed: Twin Pds (OR): Trout, was May 3 2027
2026-10-15 Removed: Twin Pds (OR): Trout, was May 3 2027

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