StockingMap

Illinois Trout Stocking Schedule and Report, Fall 2026

Illinois names its catchable trout sites and two opener dates, and keeps per-site schedules to itself.

Data checked 2026-10-24 · source: Illinois DNR

98 stocking entries on the 2026 Illinois record, across 49 waters in 31 counties, from Illinois DNR.

Illinois DNR publishes this programme by season or allocation rather than by date, so the record below shows the programme window and the fish committed to it, not truck dates.

What goes in: rainbow trout.

This page adds live water level and temperature on 1 gauged water and a page for every county that gets fish.

98 stocking records 2026
49 waters

Stocked in the last 45 days

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 18 Apple River Jo Daviess Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Argyle Lake Massac Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Axehead Lake Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Baumann Lake Winnebago Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Beall Woods Lake Wabash Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Beaver Dam Lake Macoupin Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Belk Park Pond Madison Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Belleau Lake Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Big Lake Kendall Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Bird Park Quarry Kankakee Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Boston Pond Marion Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Busse Woods North Lake Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Casey Park Pond Clark Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Centennial Park Pond Whiteside Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Citizens Lake Wabash Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Clear Lake Vermilion Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Derby Lake Randolph Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Eastern Illinois University Campus Pond Coles Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Fairgrounds Pond Massac Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Forest Park Lagoon Shelby Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Green Lake in Calumet City Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Gridley Lake Cass Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Grove Lake Douglas Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Horsetail Lake Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Horton Lake Hancock Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Illinois Department of Transportation Lake Sangamon Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Illinois and Michigan Canal Lock 14 Lake Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Jones Lake Trout Pond Saline Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Jones Park Lake Saline Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Kaufman Lake Champaign Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Lake Atwood Massac Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Lake Strini Will Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Manners Park Pond Christian Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Mineral Springs Park Lagoon Tazewell Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Morgan Lake at Nichols Park Morgan Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Pickerel Lake Douglas Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Pine Creek Ogle Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Prospect Park Lake Rock Island Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Rock Creek Kankakee Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Rock Springs Pond Macon Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Sag Quarry East Cook Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Sand Lake Lake Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Silver Lake Douglas Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Southwind Park Sangamon Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Spring Grove Hatchery Pond Massac Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Van Horn Woods Will Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Washington Park Pond Sangamon Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Weldon Springs De Witt Rainbow trout
Oct 18 Wolf Lake at William W. Powers State Recreation Area Cook Rainbow trout

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Rainbow trout 98

All stocked waters

Every Illinois water we hold a stocking page for, county by county, with its most recent date. The filter above narrows this list too.

Cass County 1

Champaign County 1

Christian County 1

Clark County 1

Coles County 1

Cook County 7

De Witt County 1

Douglas County 3

Hancock County 1

Jo Daviess County 1

Kankakee County 2

Kendall County 1

Lake County 2

Macon County 1

Macoupin County 1

Madison County 1

Marion County 1

Massac County 4

Morgan County 1

Ogle County 1

Randolph County 1

Rock Island County 1

Saline County 2

Sangamon County 3

Shelby County 1

Tazewell County 1

Vermilion County 1

Wabash County 2

Whiteside County 1

Will County 2

Winnebago County 1

Questions about Illinois stocking

When does Illinois stock trout?
Illinois DNR published 98 trout stocking entries in 2026.
Can I see Illinois stocking by county?
Yes. Every one of the 31 Illinois counties with stocked water has its own page listing that county's waters, its recent stockings and any dates announced ahead.
How current is this Illinois stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from Illinois DNR's own publications. It was last read Oct 24. Schedules change without notice, sometimes the morning of the stocking, so check the agency's page before a long drive.
Which Illinois waters have live conditions?
1 Illinois water carries a USGS gauge, so its page shows the current level, the flow against the seasonal normal and the water temperature where the gauge reports one.
All rows come from Illinois DNR publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Illinois fishing regulations.