Apple River

Fishing, stocking, and current conditions

Rainbow trout water, stocked through the fall 2026 program. A USGS gauge reports from this water, so the conditions card on this page is live.

Jo Daviess County · Illinois · see it on the national map

program fall 2026

flow 136% of seasonal normal

best window 10:02 pm-12:02 am solunar major today

Water right now 4.23 ft gage height flow 93.9 cfs, 136% of the Oct 23 median USGS gauge 05419000 (APPLE RIVER NEAR HANOVER, IL) · read 6:15 pm this evening

1 species

What swims here

Rainbow trout 2 allocations

Season program record

Illinois DNR publishes this water by season or program window, not by dated schedule, so there are no truck dates to list; the rows below are the published program allocations. The Illinois season shape statewide: spring and fall seasons.

Agency feed checked today.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
fall 2026	Rainbow trout	catchable
spring 2026	Rainbow trout	catchable

When to fish Apple River

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:39-11:39 am and 10:02 pm-12:02 am	3:57-4:57 am and 4:11-5:11 pm
Tomorrow	10:26 am-12:26 pm and 10:50 pm-12:50 am	5:07-6:07 am and 4:33-5:33 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 Central Time (CDT).

What the record actually says

Stocked through the fall 2026 program
Flow 136% of the seasonal median

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the trout (rainbow trout on the season program here, moving water)

Inline spinners	1/16 to 1/8 oz silver or gold; swing them across the current seams
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

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
Pine Creek	45 mi	fall 2026
Kickapoo River WI	70 mi	2026 season
Salmo Pond (Raemisch Pond) WI	71 mi	2026 season
Kiwanis Pond WI	72 mi	2026 season
Token Creek Pond WI	86 mi	2026 season

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