Big Blue River

Fishing, stocking, and current conditions

Rainbow trout water, stocked through the spring 2026 program; 1,125 fish in the published allocation. A USGS gauge reports from this water, so the conditions card on this page is live.

Henry County · Indiana · see it on the national map

program spring 2026

flow 96% of seasonal normal

best window 10:45 pm-12:45 am solunar major today

Water right now 4.79 ft gage height flow 108 cfs, about normal for Oct 23 USGS gauge 03361500 (BIG BLUE RIVER AT SHELBYVILLE, IN) · read 8:45 pm this evening

1 species

1,125 fish allocated

What swims here

Rainbow trout 1 allocation

Season program record

Indiana 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 Indiana season shape statewide: spring trout; catfish rounds to fall.

Agency feed checked yesterday.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
spring 2026	Rainbow trout		1,125

When to fish Big Blue River

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:22 am-12:22 pm and 10:45 pm-12:45 am	4:39-5:39 am and 4:54-5:54 pm
Tomorrow	11:08 am-1:08 pm	5:47-6:47 am and 5:19-6:19 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

Stocked through the spring 2026 program
Flow near normal for the season

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the trout (rainbow trout on the season program here, 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
Gunpowder Creek KY	71 mi	Oct 21
Big Bone Creek KY	74 mi	Oct 21
Prisoners Lake KY	80 mi	Oct 21
Wildcat Creek	90 mi	spring 2026
Mississinewa River	98 mi	spring 2026

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