Kettle Lake

Fishing and stocking

Rainbow trout water, stocked through the 2026 season program; 700 fish in the published allocation. One of 9 stocked waters on the Williams County record.

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program 2026 season

best window 10:57 pm-12:57 am solunar major today

1 species

700 fish allocated

What swims here

Rainbow trout 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	Rainbow trout		700

When to fish Kettle Lake

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:35 am-12:35 pm and 10:57 pm-12:57 am	4:52-5:52 am and 5:02-6:02 pm
Tomorrow	11:21 am-1:21 pm	6:09-7:09 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 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 trout (rainbow trout on the season program here)

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
Ultralight spinning rod	6 to 7 ft ultralight, 4 lb line; long casts from the bank

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
Cottonwood Lake	8.4 mi	2026 season
Blacktail Dam	13 mi	2026 season
Epping-Springbrook Dam	26 mi	2026 season
McLeod (Ray) Reservoir	28 mi	2026 season
West Spring Lake Pond	28 mi	2026 season

Records from North Dakota Game and Fish Department (official page). Placement from North Dakota Game and Fish Department coordinates. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: North Dakota fishing regulations.