StockingMap

Pennsylvania Trout Stocking Schedule and Report, Fall 2026

Adult trout go in from mid-February into October, heaviest around the spring openers. Fall stocking picks back up the first week of October.

Data checked 2026-10-24 · source: Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission

6,939 stocking entries on the 2026 Pennsylvania record, across 666 waters in 69 counties, from Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

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

What goes in: rainbow trout, brown trout, golden rainbow trout and brook trout, and 4 more species.

This page adds 8 waters stocked in the last seven days, live water level and temperature on 167 gauged waters, the Pennsylvania record book and a page for every county that gets fish.

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Today: Pennsylvania fishing forecast · best times and fresh stockings

6,939 stocking records 2026
666 waters

Recent schedule dates

Dates the published schedule listed in the last 45 days. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission does not publish completion confirmations, so these are schedule entries, not verified stockings.

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 22 Muddy Creek York Rainbow trout
Oct 21 Conewago Creek Adams Rainbow trout
Oct 21 Conewago Creek Adams Brown trout
Oct 21 East Branch Perkiomen Creek Bucks Rainbow trout
Oct 21 Meadow Run Fayette Rainbow trout
Oct 20 Deer Creek Allegheny Rainbow trout
Oct 20 Dunbar Creek Fayette Rainbow trout
Oct 20 Pine Creek Allegheny Rainbow trout
Oct 19 Laurel Hill Creek Somerset Rainbow trout
Oct 19 Laurel Hill Creek Somerset Rainbow trout
Oct 19 Youghiogheny River Fayette, Somerset Rainbow trout
Oct 16 Loyalhanna Creek Westmoreland Rainbow trout
Oct 15 Buffalo Creek Butler Rainbow trout
Oct 15 Buffalo Creek Armstrong Rainbow trout
Oct 15 Wissahickon Creek Philadelphia Rainbow trout
Oct 15 Wissahickon Creek Philadelphia Brown trout
Oct 14 Tulpehocken Creek Berks Rainbow trout
Oct 14 Tulpehocken Creek Berks Rainbow trout
Oct 13 Little Lehigh Creek Lehigh Rainbow trout
Oct 13 Pennypack Creek Philadelphia Rainbow trout
Oct 13 Pennypack Creek Montgomery Rainbow trout
Oct 8 Kinzua Creek McKean Rainbow trout
Oct 8 Pine Creek Lycoming Rainbow trout
Oct 8 Pine Creek Lycoming Brown trout
Oct 7 Brodhead Creek Monroe Rainbow trout
Oct 7 Clark Creek Dauphin Rainbow trout
Oct 7 Clark Creek Dauphin Brown trout
Oct 7 East Branch Brandywine Creek Chester Rainbow trout
Oct 7 Lackawaxen River Pike Rainbow trout
Oct 7 Pine Creek Tioga Rainbow trout
Oct 7 Pine Creek Tioga Brown trout
Oct 7 Quittapahilla Creek Lebanon Rainbow trout
Oct 6 Chest Creek Cambria Rainbow trout
Oct 6 East Branch Clarion River Elk Rainbow trout
Oct 6 Harveys Creek Luzerne Rainbow trout
Oct 6 Harveys Creek Luzerne Rainbow trout
Oct 6 Lycoming Creek Lycoming Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Allegheny River Warren Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Bush Kill Pike Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Bush Kill Monroe Rainbow trout
Oct 5 First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek Potter Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Kettle Creek Potter Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Neshannock Creek Lawrence Rainbow trout
Oct 5 Roaring Brook Lackawanna Rainbow trout
Oct 5 South Branch Tunkhannock Creek Wyoming Rainbow trout
Oct 5 South Branch Tunkhannock Creek Lackawanna Rainbow trout
Oct 5 South Branch Tunkhannock Creek Wyoming Brown trout
Oct 5 South Branch Tunkhannock Creek Lackawanna Brown trout
Oct 2 Little Pine Creek Lycoming Rainbow trout
Oct 2 Ridley Creek Delaware Rainbow trout
Oct 2 Ridley Creek Delaware Rainbow trout
Oct 2 Shenango River Mercer Rainbow trout
Oct 1 North Fork Redbank Creek Jefferson Brown trout
Oct 1 Oil Creek Venango Rainbow trout

The 2026 season at a glance

Stocking records by month. Mid-February into October.

Jan ·
Feb 452
Mar 2069
Apr 2007
May 529
Jun 24
Jul 4
Aug ·
Sep 2
Oct 54
Nov ·
Dec ·

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Rainbow trout 2,693 1,800,505
Brown trout 2,288 983,483
Golden rainbow trout 1,662 15,123
Brook trout 145 68,305
Walleye 52 8,781,950
Muskellunge 45 28,679
Steelhead 13 417,887
Channel catfish 12 6,470

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 Pennsylvania, from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission record book. Weights are shown exactly as the agency publishes them; waters we track link to their stocking pages.

SpeciesWeightWater AnglerYear
Catfish, Flathead 66 lb. 6 oz. Susquehanna River, Lancaster Co. Michael Wherley 2023
Muskellunge 54 lb. 3 oz. Conneaut Lake, Crawford Co. Lewis Walker, Jr. 1924
Bass, Striped - Marine 53 lb. 13 oz. Delaware River, Delaware Co. Donald J. Clark 1989
Bass, Striped - Inland 53 lb. 12 oz. Raystown Lake, Huntingdon Co. Robert Price 1994
Carp, Common 52 lb. Juniata River, Huntingdon Co. George Brown 1962
Catfish, Channel 35 lb. 3 oz. Lehigh Canal, Northampton Co. Austin E. Roth III 1991
Pike, Northern 35 lb. Allegheny Reservoir, McKean Co. Carl Stoltz 2003
Trout, Lake 31 lb. 13 oz. Lake Erie, Erie Co. Keith Miller 2019
Salmon, Chinook 28 lb. 15 oz. Lake Erie, Erie Co. Gregory Lasko 1990
Trout, Brown 20 lb. 9 oz. Lake Erie, Erie Co. Robert J. Ferraro 2020
Trout, Steelhead 20 lb. 3 oz. Walnut Creek, Erie Co. Corey T. Brown 2001
Drum, Freshwater 19 lb. 14 oz. Monongahela River, Washington Co. Tim Rogers 1994
Walleye 18 lb. 1 oz. Youghiogheny River, Fayette Co. Richard E. Nicholson 2021
Salmon, Atlantic 17 lb. 2 oz. Raystown Lake, Huntingdon Co. Brian Keller 2001
Trout, Rainbow 15 lb. 6 oz. Jordan Creek, Lehigh Co. Dennis L. Clouse 1986
Salmon, Coho 15 lb. 5 oz. Lake Erie, Erie Co. Jack Scheirer 1985
Trout, Golden Rainbow 13 lb. 8 oz. Mahoning Creek, Schuylkill Co. Eli Borger 2008
Suckers 12 lb. 14 oz. Allegheny River, Forest Co. Raymond C. Szalewicz 2003
Bass, Largemouth 11 lb. 3 oz. Birch Run Reservoir, Adams Co. Donald Shade 1983
Shad, American 9 lb. 9 oz. Delaware River, Pike Co. Anthony Mecca 1986
Pickerel, Chain 8 lb. 15 oz. Long Pond, Wayne Co. Dave Wilson 2002
Bass, Smallmouth 8 lb. 8 oz. Scotts Run Lake, Berks Co. Robert T. Steelman 1997
Trout, Brook 7 lb. Fishing Creek, Clinton Co. Vonada Ranck 1996
Catfish, Bullhead 4 lb. 10 oz. Beltzville Lake, Carbon Co. Ian C. Radler 2011
Salmon, Pink 4 lb. 8 oz. Elk Creek, Erie Co. David A. Rabatin 1995
Crappie 4 lb. 3 oz. Hammond Lake, Tioga Co. Richard A. Pino 2000
Bass, White 4 lb. 0 oz. Conneaut Lake, Crawford Co. Robert H. Hornstrom 2002
Sauger 4 lb. Susquehanna River, Lycoming Co. Tim Waltz 2001
Bass, Rock 3 lb. 2 oz. Elk Creek, Erie Co. David L. Weber 1971
Perch, Yellow 3 lb. 0 oz. Lake Erie, Erie Co. Kirk Rudzinski 2021
Bluegill 2 lb. 9 oz. Keystone Lake, Armstrong Co. Tom Twincheck 1983
Perch, White 2 lb. 1 oz. Delaware River, Delaware Co. Christopher Barrett 2024

All stocked waters

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

Adams County 8

Allegheny County 14

Armstrong County 15

Beaver County 10

Bedford County 13

Berks County 19

Berks, Schuylkill County 1

Blair County 10

Bradford County 9

Bucks County 3

Butler County 10

Cambria County 14

Cameron County 12

Carbon County 13

Centre County 14

Chester County 14

Clarion County 12

Clearfield County 16

Clinton County 7

Columbia County 10

Crawford County 16

Cumberland County 8

Dauphin County 10

Delaware County 6

Elk County 19

Erie County 20

Fayette County 12

Fayette, Somerset County 1

Forest County 16

Franklin County 10

Fulton County 11

Greene County 8

Huntingdon County 15

Indiana County 12

Jefferson County 16

Juniata County 11

Lackawanna County 9

Lancaster County 23

Lawrence County 12

Lebanon County 9

Lehigh County 10

Luzerne County 9

Lycoming County 12

McKean County 19

Mercer County 11

Mifflin County 10

Monroe County 8

Montgomery County 10

Montour County 3

Northampton County 10

Northumberland County 5

Perry County 16

Philadelphia County 3

Pike County 9

Potter County 18

Schuylkill County 12

Snyder County 9

Somerset County 29

Sullivan County 8

Susquehanna County 14

Tioga County 10

Union County 8

Venango County 19

Warren County 24

Washington County 13

Wayne County 14

Westmoreland County 21

Wyoming County 10

York County 14

Questions about Pennsylvania stocking

When does Pennsylvania stock trout?
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stocked trout February through July and again September through October in 2026. The most recent entry on this page is Oct 22.
Can I see Pennsylvania stocking by county?
Yes. Every one of the 69 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania stocking schedule?
Yes. The print view on this page lays the Pennsylvania schedule out for paper, including a county index, and can be filtered to a single county before printing.
How do I get Pennsylvania stocking updates automatically?
This page offers an RSS feed and a calendar feed for Pennsylvania, 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 Pennsylvania stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission'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 Pennsylvania waters have live conditions?
167 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania state record fish?
The Pennsylvania record book on this page lists 32 certified records as Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission publishes them, each linked to the water it came from where we track that water.
All rows come from Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Pennsylvania fishing regulations.