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Maryland Trout Stocking Schedule and Report, Fall 2026

Maryland stocks February through May, then a smaller fall round from early October. Waters under the March closure are stocked but never named in the daily updates.

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

639 stocking entries on the 2026 Maryland record, across 164 waters in 17 counties, from Maryland DNR. The published counts add up to 527,170 fish.

Stocking runs February through May and again October, heaviest in March.

What goes in: trout, rainbow trout and brown trout. Trout alone accounts for 575 of the entries.

This page adds 4 waters stocked in the last seven days, live water level and temperature on 20 gauged waters, the Maryland record book and a page for every county that gets fish.

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639 stocking records 2026
164 waters
527,170 fish reported

Stocked in the last 45 days

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 21 Patapsco River, Avalon Area Baltimore Trout 500
Oct 21 Patapsco River, Daniels Area Baltimore Trout 500
Oct 21 South Branch Patapsco River, River Rd. Carroll Trout 500
Oct 20 Bynum Pond Harford Trout 300
Oct 20 Deer Creek Harford Rainbow trout 500
Oct 19 Middle Patuxent River Howard Brown trout 200
Oct 19 Morgan Run Carroll Brown trout 300
Oct 19 Patuxent River C&R (Artificial Flies Only) Montgomery - Howard Brown trout 200
Oct 16 Rainbow Lake Frederick Trout 450
Oct 15 Antietam Creek (Devil's Backbone) Washington Trout 500
Oct 15 Great Seneca Creek Montgomery Trout 450
Oct 13 Cunningham Falls Lake Frederick Trout 750
Oct 9 Greenbrier Lake Washington Trout 1,500
Oct 8 Blairs Valley Lake Washington Trout 1,500
Oct 8 Lake Habeeb (Rocky Gap) Allegany Rainbow trout 1,750
Oct 8 Savage Reservoir Garrett Trout 1,750
Oct 7 Carroll Creek Frederick Trout 450
Oct 7 Casselman River Garrett Trout 1,500
Oct 6 Town Creek Mainstem Allegany Rainbow trout 1,000
Oct 5 Gunpowder Falls, Upper Baltimore Trout 500
Oct 5 Warfield Park Pond Howard Trout 300

The 2026 season at a glance

Stocking records by month. February through May, plus a fall round.

Jan ·
Feb 89
Mar 293
Apr 181
May 55
Jun ·
Jul ·
Aug ·
Sep ·
Oct 21
Nov ·
Dec ·

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Trout 575 478,080
Rainbow trout 61 48,390
Brown trout 3 700

Schedule changes

When the agency moves or drops a published date, it shows here instead of quietly disappearing.

State record fish

The heaviest fish of each species ever certified in Maryland, from the Maryland DNR record book. Weights are shown exactly as the agency publishes them; waters we track link to their stocking pages.

SpeciesWeightWater AnglerYear
Black Drum chesapeake 103.5 lbs. Buoy 16 Robert Messik Jr. 1973
Cobia chesapeake 97.8 lbs. Middle Grounds John Scheifele 1969
Catfish, Blue invasive 84.0 lbs. Near Fort Washington, Potomac River Ed Jones 2012
Red Drum chesapeake 74.4 lbs. Tangier Sound Earnest Hutchinson 1977
Striped Bass chesapeake 67.5 lbs. Bloody Point Devin Nolan 1995
Catfish, Flathead invasive 57.0 lbs. Lapidum Boat Ramp, Susquehanna River Joshua Dixon 2020
Carp chesapeake 49 lbs. Susquehanna Flats Logan Kuhrmann 2022
Carp nontidal 47.5 lbs. Frederick County Farm Pond Wayne Longenecker 1997
Striped Bass nontidal 47.1 lbs. Liberty Reservoir Robert Bruce 2000
Muskellunge nontidal 33.0 lbs. Along the banks of the upper Potomac River Kyle Mullenix 2022
Catfish, Channel chesapeake 29.6 lbs. Mattawoman Creek Kevin Kern 1997
Tiger Muskellunge nontidal 29.3 lbs. Dam 5 Kevin Conner 1997
Catfish, Channel nontidal 27.9 lbs. Upper Potomac River Steven Trent Abell 2004
Northern Pike nontidal 24.8 lbs. Deep Creek Lake Shawn Jacobson 1999
Bluefish chesapeake 22.0 lbs. Chesapeake Beach Thomas R. Talbott 1991
Bluefish chesapeake 22.0 lbs. Hackett's Point Ronald Raffo 1986
Bluefish chesapeake 22.0 lbs. Off Queen Anne Marina John Davidson 1979
Northern Snakehead invasive 21.8 lbs. Susquehanna River (tidal waters) Matt Foreman 2025
Longnose Gar chesapeake 20.5 lbs. Marshyhope Creek David Confair 2025
Trout, Brown nontidal 18.2 lbs. North Branch Of Potomac At Barnum Gary Kuhn 2001
Trout, Rainbow nontidal 17.4 lbs. Antietam Creek Jean-Philippe Lartigue 2024
Sheepshead chesapeake 16.6 lbs. Tangier Sound off Crisfield Brian Summerlin 2023
Weakfish chesapeake 16.5 lbs. Nanticoke River Wayne Lappe 1979
Spotted Seatrout chesapeake 16.4 lbs. Roaring Point John Phillips 1977
Flounder, Summer chesapeake 15.0 lbs. Buoy 50 Kenneth Grimes 1978
Walleye nontidal 14.3 lbs. Jennings Randolph Reservoir John McCarley 1998
Spanish Mackerel chesapeake 12.4 lbs. Middle Grounds Dean Mitchell 2007
Largemouth Bass nontidal 11.4 lbs. Huntingtown Farm Pond Colton Lambert 2013
Largemouth Bass chesapeake 11.2 lbs. Potomac River Justin Riley 2008
Atlantic Spadefish chesapeake 10.0 lbs. Buoy 72 Charlie Barron 2007
Catfish, White chesapeake 9.6 lbs. Turkey Point near the mouth of the Elk River Brian Dvorak 2018
Tautog chesapeake 9.0 lbs. Point Lookout Gary Halbeisen 2005
Smallmouth Bass nontidal 8.2 lbs. Liberty Reservoir Gary Peters 1974
White (american) Shad* chesapeake 8.1 lbs. Wicomico River Vance Carter 1975
Chain Pickerel nontidal 8.0 lbs. Salisbury Lee Haile 2015
Trout, Cutthroat nontidal 7.6 lbs. North Branch Of Potomac At Barnum David G. Martin 2000
Chain Pickerel chesapeake 6.5 lbs. Susquehanna River James Grant 1965
Croaker chesapeake 6.5 lbs. Point Lookout Russell Knapp 2006
Florida pompano chesapeake 6.4 lb Bloodsworth Island Bobby Graves 2023
Trout, Brook nontidal 6.1 lbs. North Branch Of The Potomac River Below Randolph Dam Mike Fiorita, Jr. 1999
Smallmouth Bass chesapeake 6.0 lbs. Susquehanna River Charles Janes 1979
Catfish, Bullhead nontidal 4.9 lbs. Big Gunpowder Falls Nick Palese 2019
Crappie nontidal 4.4 lbs. Farm Pond Jason D. Morrison 2004
Crappie chesapeake 4.0 lbs. Dundee Creek Sid Stollings 2007
Hickory Shad chesapeake 4.0 lbs. Susquehanna River John Schaeffer Jr. 1971
Bluegill nontidal 3.4 lbs. Deep Creek Lake Sarah Brenneman 1998
Yellow Perch nontidal 3.3 lbs. Harford County Farm Pond Philip Deere IV 2006
Fallfish nontidal 3.2 lbs North Branch of Potomac, Westernport Blake Cronk 2024
White Perch chesapeake 2.6 lbs. Dundee Creek Sid Stollings 1979
Redear Sunfish nontidal 2.3 lbs. Gilbert Run Vittie Alkocius 1985
Yellow Perch chesapeake 2.3 lbs. Lower Susquehanna River Thomas Dembeck, Jr. 2025
Norfolk Spot chesapeake 2.0 lbs. Tangier Sound Parlett Moore 1978
White Perch nontidal 1.9 lbs Loch Raven Reservoir George Venker 2017
Rock Bass nontidal 1.5 lbs. Thurmont Farm Pond Earl Jenkins IV 2010
Rock Bass chesapeake 1.0 lb. Susquehanna River Timothy A. Adams 1997
Rock Bass chesapeake 1.0 lb. Lower Susquehanna River Thomas Over Jr. 2024
Warmouth nontidal 0.7 lbs. Gilbert Run Lake Dezi Collins 2018

All stocked waters

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

Allegany County 7

Anne Arundel County 1

Baltimore County 3

Caroline County 1

Carroll County 3

Cecil County 2

Cecill County 1

Charles County 2

Frederick County 8

Garrett County 7

Harford County 1

Howard County 4

Howard - Prince Georges County 1

Montgomery County 2

Prince George's County 4

Queen Anne's County 1

Washington County 7

Questions about Maryland stocking

When does Maryland stock trout?
Maryland DNR stocked trout February through May and again October in 2026. The most recent entry on this page is Oct 21.
Can I see Maryland stocking by county?
Yes. Every one of the 17 Maryland counties with stocked water has its own page listing that county's waters, its recent stockings and any dates announced ahead.
Is there a printable Maryland stocking schedule?
Yes. The print view on this page lays the Maryland schedule out for paper, including a county index, and can be filtered to a single county before printing.
How do I get Maryland stocking updates automatically?
This page offers an RSS feed and a calendar feed for Maryland, and each county page offers the same for that county alone. Subscribing to the calendar puts announced stocking dates straight into your own calendar.
How current is this Maryland stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from Maryland 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 Maryland waters have live conditions?
20 Maryland waters carry a USGS gauge, so their page shows the current level, the flow against the seasonal normal and the water temperature where the gauge reports one.
What is the Maryland state record fish?
The Maryland record book on this page lists 57 certified records as Maryland DNR publishes them, each linked to the water it came from where we track that water.
All rows come from Maryland DNR publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Maryland fishing regulations.