Devils Lake

Fishing, stocking, and current conditions

Yellow perch water, stocked through the 2026 season program; 101,424 fish in the published allocation. A 79,682-acre lake. A USGS gauge reports from this water, so the conditions card on this page is live.

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program 2026 season

best window 10:38 pm-12:38 am solunar major today

Water right now 49.88 ft gage height elevation 1449.88 ft USGS gauge 05056500 (DEVILS LAKE NEAR DEVILS LAKE, ND) · read 7:00 pm this evening

1 species

101,424 fish allocated

79,682 acres (NHD)

What swims here

Yellow perch 1 allocation

Season program record

North Dakota Game and Fish Department 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 North Dakota season shape statewide: reported by year.

Agency feed checked yesterday.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
2026 season	Yellow perch	adult	101,424

When to fish Devils Lake

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:16 am-12:16 pm and 10:38 pm-12:38 am	4:33-5:33 am and 4:44-5:44 pm
Tomorrow	11:02 am-1:02 pm	5:49-6:49 am and 5:01-6:01 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 2026 season program

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the panfish (yellow perch on the season program here, stillwater)

Small tubes and grubs	1 to 2 inch plastics for crappie around brush
Long telescoping pole	reach the pockets without spooking the school
Ultralight rod and small jigs	1/32 to 1/64 oz jigs under a float; 2 to 4 lb line

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
Ruger Park Pond	8.7 mi	2026 season
Wood Lake	12 mi	2026 season
Warsing Dam	15 mi	2026 season
Free Peoples Lake	16 mi	2026 season
Irvine-Alice-Mikes Complex	20 mi	2026 season

Records from North Dakota Game and Fish Department (official page). Placement from USGS GNIS and the National Hydrography Dataset. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: North Dakota fishing regulations.