StockingMap

South Dakota Fish Stocking Report and Schedule, Fall 2026

GFP's annual report runs day-level with counts and purpose, walleye fry to adult rainbows, updated through the season.

Data checked 2026-10-22 · source: South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks

643 stocking entries on the 2026 South Dakota record, across 246 waters in 32 counties, from South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks. The published counts add up to 59,509,756 fish.

Stocking runs January through October, heaviest in May.

What goes in: rainbow trout, walleye, largemouth bass and channel catfish, and 4 more species.

This page adds 1 water stocked in the last seven days, live water level and temperature on 4 gauged waters and a page for every county that gets fish.

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643 stocking records 2026
246 waters
59,509,756 fish reported

Stocked in the last 45 days

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 21 Lighthouse Point (Oahe) Yankton Chinook salmon 11,090
Oct 21 Lynn Day Muskellunge 1,442
Oct 21 Scott Minnehaha Yellow perch 401
Oct 20 Winner City Pond Tripp Rainbow trout 300
Oct 15 Sheridan Pennington Rainbow trout 2,088
Oct 15 Sheridan Pennington Rainbow trout 1,840
Oct 15 Sheridan Pennington Rainbow trout 1,186
Oct 14 Armour Kids Fishing Pond Douglas Rainbow trout 980
Oct 14 Capitol Lake Hughes Rainbow trout 234
Oct 14 Dante Charles Mix Rainbow trout 900
Oct 14 Enemy Swim Day Walleye 11,410
Oct 14 Little Moreau #2 Dewey Rainbow trout 960
Oct 14 Rollings GPA Lake Rainbow trout 814
Oct 14 Tea South CFP Lake Rainbow trout 678
Oct 14 Worthing CFP Lake Rainbow trout 226
Oct 14 Wylie Park Brookings Rainbow trout 1,176
Oct 13 Capitol Lake Hughes Rainbow trout 1,356
Oct 13 Enemy Swim Day Walleye 3,169
Oct 13 Pickerel Day Walleye 10,032
Oct 12 Covell Lake Minnehaha Rainbow trout 814
Oct 12 Mikkelson Pond Hughes Rainbow trout 678
Oct 12 Morris, Milt Farm Pond Sully Rainbow trout 678
Oct 12 Outdoor Campus East Pond Minnehaha Rainbow trout 904
Oct 9 US Forest Service Pasture 9 Pennington Rainbow trout 600
Oct 9 US Forest Service Pasture 9 Perkins Rainbow trout 600
Oct 8 Brakke Lyman Walleye 1,603
Oct 8 Byre Lyman Walleye 1,604
Oct 8 Coldbrook Edmunds Rainbow trout 500
Oct 8 Coldbrook Fall River Rainbow trout 500
Oct 8 Cottonwood Springs Edmunds Rainbow trout 500
Oct 8 Cottonwood Springs Fall River Rainbow trout 500
Oct 8 Dakota Nature Park East Brookings Rainbow trout 1,072
Oct 8 Fate Lyman Walleye 502
Oct 8 Fate Lyman Walleye 1,070
Oct 8 Pickerel Day Walleye 3,845
Oct 7 Clear Marshall Walleye 7,006
Oct 7 Dakotah Hand Rainbow trout 600
Oct 7 Madison CFP Kingsbury Rainbow trout 500
Oct 7 Ole – Harrisburg Lake Rainbow trout 500
Oct 7 Prior Lake CFP Sanborn Rainbow trout 500
Oct 6 Clear Marshall Walleye 5,742
Oct 6 Family Park Minnehaha Rainbow trout 1,840
Oct 6 Family Park Minnehaha Largemouth bass 88
Oct 6 Miller FMA Hanson Rainbow trout 1,001
Oct 6 Roosevelt Tripp Saugeye 3,141
Oct 5 Covell Lake Minnehaha Rainbow trout 1,380
Oct 5 Family Park Minnehaha Rainbow trout 1,840
Oct 2 Roubaix Lawrence Rainbow trout 800
Oct 1 Blvd Pond Jackson Channel catfish 54
Sep 30 Dante Charles Mix Largemouth bass 500
Sep 30 Dante Charles Mix Channel catfish 1,250
Sep 30 Reliance Lyman Largemouth bass 1,099
Sep 30 Reliance Lyman Channel catfish 1,250
Sep 29 Lions CFP Codington Rainbow trout 900
Sep 29 Wylie Park Brookings Rainbow trout 1,050
Sep 28 Canyon Lake Pennington Rainbow trout 1,000
Sep 28 Canyon Lake Park Ponds Pennington Rainbow trout 200
Sep 28 Outdoor Campus West Display Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 150
Sep 25 Lakota Custer Rainbow trout 700
Sep 24 Legion Custer Rainbow trout 800
Sep 24 Stockade Custer Walleye 10,710
Sep 22 Center Custer Rainbow trout 288
Sep 22 Cox Lawrence Rainbow trout 288
Sep 22 Grace Coolidge Creek Custer Rainbow trout 600
Sep 21 Canyon Lake Pennington Rainbow trout 700
Sep 21 Canyon Lake Park Ponds Pennington Rainbow trout 200
Sep 21 Center Custer Rainbow trout 288
Sep 21 Memorial Pond Jackson Rainbow trout 400
Sep 21 Memorial Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 400
Sep 21 Reausaw Lawrence Rainbow trout 500
Sep 18 Bismark Custer Rainbow trout 250
Sep 18 Brakke Lyman Walleye 1,600
Sep 18 Byre Lyman Walleye 1,600
Sep 18 Center Custer Rainbow trout 1,056
Sep 18 Fate Lyman Walleye 1,600
Sep 18 Medicine Mountain Boy Scout Camp Jackson Rainbow trout 200
Sep 17 Bismark Custer Rainbow trout 750
Sep 17 Blvd Pond Jackson Rainbow trout 30
Sep 17 Boxelder City Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 50
Sep 17 Center Custer Rainbow trout 288
Sep 17 Jackson Blvd Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 30
Sep 17 Outdoor Campus West Display Pond Jackson Rainbow trout 150
Sep 17 Outdoor Campus West Display Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 150
Sep 17 Rapid Creek - Section 3 Pennington Rainbow trout 300
Sep 16 Center Custer Rainbow trout 576
Sep 16 Grace Coolidge Dams Custer Rainbow trout 600
Sep 15 Center Custer Rainbow trout 576
Sep 15 Center Custer Rainbow trout 1,130
Sep 15 Iron Creek Lake Lawrence Rainbow trout 1,056
Sep 15 Major Lake Jackson Rainbow trout 200
Sep 15 Mitchell Jackson Rainbow trout 200
Sep 15 Mitchell Pennington Rainbow trout 200
Sep 15 Newton Fork Dam Jackson Rainbow trout 150
Sep 15 Newton Fork Dam Pennington Rainbow trout 150
Sep 14 Mirror Upper Lawrence Rainbow trout 288
Sep 11 Center Custer Rainbow trout 288
Sep 11 Sunday Gulch Pond Pennington Rainbow trout 1,000
Sep 10 Center Custer Rainbow trout 870
Sep 10 Eilers FMA Jerauld Largemouth bass 10
Sep 10 Eilers FMA Jerauld Channel catfish 3
Sep 10 Eilers FMA Jerauld Black crappie 100
Sep 10 Eilers FMA Jerauld Bluegill 150
Sep 10 Plankinton Community Fishing Pond Aurora Largemouth bass 10
Sep 10 Plankinton Community Fishing Pond Aurora Black crappie 40
Sep 10 Plankinton Community Fishing Pond Aurora Channel catfish 10
Sep 10 Plankinton Community Fishing Pond Aurora Bluegill 150
Sep 10 Prior Lake CFP Sanborn Largemouth bass 20
Sep 10 Prior Lake CFP Sanborn Black crappie 80
Sep 10 Prior Lake CFP Sanborn Channel catfish 20
Sep 10 Prior Lake CFP Sanborn Bluegill 300
Sep 10 Sylvan Custer Rainbow trout 800
Sep 9 Deerfield Pennington Rainbow trout 396
Sep 9 Deerfield Pennington Rainbow trout 880
Sep 9 Pactola Reservoir Pennington Rainbow trout 472
Sep 9 Sylvan Custer Rainbow trout 1,600
Sep 8 Pactola Reservoir Pennington Rainbow trout 472

The 2026 season at a glance

Stocking records by month. Spring through fall.

Jan 1
Feb 6
Mar 78
Apr 105
May 227
Jun 63
Jul 21
Aug 16
Sep 77
Oct 49
Nov ·
Dec ·

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Rainbow trout 272 162,028
Walleye 89 56,795,379
Largemouth bass 77 32,177
Channel catfish 46 45,502
Bluegill 37 9,669
Yellow perch 31 80,175
Black crappie 21 2,790
White bass 16 985

Schedule changes

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

All stocked waters

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

Aurora County 1

Beadle County 1

Bennett County 1

Brookings County 1

Butte County 2

Clark County 1

Codington County 6

Corson County 1

Custer County 8

Day County 6

Deuel County 5

Fall River County 1

Grant County 1

Gregory County 1

Hand County 1

Hughes County 1

Hyde County 1

Lawrence County 5

Lyman County 2

Marshall County 4

McCook County 1

McPherson County 2

Meade County 1

Minnehaha County 3

Pennington County 7

Perkins County 1

Spink County 1

Stanley County 1

Sully County 1

Tripp County 1

Walworth County 1

Yankton County 2

Questions about South Dakota stocking

When does South Dakota stock fish?
South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks stocked fish January through October in 2026. The most recent entry on this page is Oct 21.
Can I see South Dakota stocking by county?
Yes. Every one of the 32 South Dakota 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 South Dakota stocking schedule?
Yes. The print view on this page lays the South Dakota schedule out for paper, including a county index, and can be filtered to a single county before printing.
How do I get South Dakota stocking updates automatically?
This page offers an RSS feed and a calendar feed for South Dakota, 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 South Dakota stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks's own publications. It was last read Oct 22. Schedules change without notice, sometimes the morning of the stocking, so check the agency's page before a long drive.
Which South Dakota waters have live conditions?
4 South Dakota 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.
All rows come from South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: South Dakota fishing regulations.