Cedar Lake

Fishing and stocking

Rainbow trout water, stocked through the spring 2026 program; 1,200 fish in the published allocation. A 102-acre lake.

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program spring 2026

best window 10:42 pm-12:42 am solunar major today

1 species

1,200 fish allocated

102 acres (NHD)

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		1,200

When to fish Cedar Lake

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:20 am-12:20 pm and 10:42 pm-12:42 am	4:37-5:37 am and 4:52-5:52 pm
Tomorrow	11:06 am-1:06 pm	5:46-6:46 am and 5:15-6:15 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

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the trout (rainbow trout on the season program here, stillwater)

Dough bait rigs	floating dough bait 18 inches above a small egg sinker; hatchery fish know the smell
Casting spoons	1/8 to 1/4 oz in fluorescent or metallic; count down until you find the depth
Small crankbaits	trout-pattern cranks trolled or slow-retrieved off points

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
Sand Lake	6.4 mi	spring 2026
Wyland Lake	13 mi	spring 2026
Solomon Creek	18 mi	spring 2026
Martin Lake	22 mi	spring 2026
Oliver Lake	22 mi	spring 2026

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