Recreational Complex Lake

Fishing and stocking

Rainbow trout water, stocked through the winter 2026 program.

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program winter 2026

best window 9:59-11:59 pm solunar major today

1 species

What swims here

Rainbow trout 1 allocation

Season program record

Missouri Department of Conservation 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 Missouri season shape statewide: trout parks march to october; winter lakes from november.

Agency feed checked today.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
winter 2026	Rainbow trout

When to fish Recreational Complex Lake

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:37-11:37 am and 9:59-11:59 pm	3:54-4:54 am and 4:10-5:10 pm
Tomorrow	10:23 am-12:23 pm and 10:47 pm-12:47 am	5:00-6:00 am and 4:36-5:36 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 winter 2026 program

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

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

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
Capaha Park Lake	29 mi	winter 2026
Rotary Lake	35 mi	winter 2026
Legion Lake 1	59 mi	winter 2026
Garrett Lake TN	68 mi	Oct 6
Carroll Lake TN	81 mi	Oct 8

Records from Missouri Department of Conservation (official page). Placement from Missouri Department of Conservation coordinates. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Missouri fishing regulations.