StockingMap

Vermont Trout Stocking Schedule and Report, Fall 2026

Vermont publishes planned and actual numbers side by side and posts dates within two days of the trucks. The cleanest stocking data in the country.

Data checked 2026-10-24 · source: Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department

439 stocking entries on the 2026 Vermont record, across 154 waters in 14 counties, from Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. The published counts add up to 1,429,722 fish.

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

What goes in: rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout and atlantic salmon, and 3 more species.

This page adds 2 waters stocked in the last seven days, live water level and temperature on 29 gauged waters and a page for every county that gets fish.

Follow Vermont stocking
  • RSS feed New stockings as they post. Works in Feedly and any feed reader.
  • Calendar (iCal) Copy this link, then in Google Calendar choose Other calendars, From URL. Announced dates land on your calendar and stay current.
  • Print this schedule A clean one-pager for the shop wall or the truck.
  • Put this on your site A free embeddable strip of the latest stockings, for club and shop pages.

Today: Vermont fishing forecast · best times and fresh stockings

439 stocking records 2026
154 waters
1,429,722 fish reported

Stocked in the last 45 days

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 22 Harriman Reservoir Windham Brook trout 325
Oct 19 East Creek Rutland Rainbow trout 200
Oct 19 Knapp Pond No 1 Windsor Rainbow trout 150
Oct 16 Harriman Reservoir Windham Brook trout 200
Oct 15 Waterbury Reservoir Washington Brown trout 122
Oct 14 Knapp Pond No 2 Windsor Brook trout 779
Oct 14 Marshfield Reservoir Washington Brown trout 300
Oct 13 Knapp Pond No 1 Windsor Rainbow trout 480
Oct 13 Lake Dunmore Addison Atlantic salmon 1,563
Oct 13 Lake Paran Bennington Rainbow trout 446
Oct 13 Lake Shaftsbury Bennington Rainbow trout 264
Oct 9 Waterbury Reservoir Washington Brown trout 285
Oct 7 Lake Willoughby Orleans Atlantic salmon 1,000
Oct 7 Marshfield Reservoir Washington Brown trout 210
Oct 7 Seymour Lake Orleans Atlantic salmon 1,000
Oct 6 Joe's Pond Caledonia Rainbow trout 190
Oct 5 Harriman Reservoir Windham Atlantic salmon 660
Sep 30 Harvey's Lake Caledonia Rainbow trout 140

The 2026 season at a glance

Stocking records by month. April into June, trucked within days.

Jan ·
Feb ·
Mar 34
Apr 147
May 174
Jun 45
Jul 1
Aug ·
Sep 1
Oct 17
Nov ·
Dec ·

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Rainbow trout 163 125,848
Brook trout 122 173,981
Brown trout 84 99,481
Atlantic salmon 36 212,079
Steelhead 13 64,445
Lake trout 13 8,075
Walleye 8 783,163

Schedule changes

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

All stocked waters

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

Addison County 6

Bennington County 14

Caledonia County 9

Chittenden County 5

Essex County 9

Franklin County 4

Grand Isle County 1

Lamoille County 4

Orange County 4

Orleans County 13

Rutland County 22

Washington County 11

Windham County 9

Windsor County 12

Statewide 1

Questions about Vermont stocking

When does Vermont stock trout?
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department stocked trout March through July and again September through October in 2026. The most recent entry on this page is Oct 22.
Can I see Vermont stocking by county?
Yes. Every one of the 14 Vermont 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 Vermont stocking schedule?
Yes. The print view on this page lays the Vermont schedule out for paper, including a county index, and can be filtered to a single county before printing.
How do I get Vermont stocking updates automatically?
This page offers an RSS feed and a calendar feed for Vermont, 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 Vermont stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department'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 Vermont waters have live conditions?
29 Vermont 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 Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Vermont fishing regulations.