Benson Lake

Name: Trout stocking records: Benson Lake, Minnesota
Creator: Stocking Record

The Minnesota DNR reports 2,500 trout stocked in Benson Lake (Lake County) in 2024, the latest year in its lake stocking report. The DNR reports stocking by year, not by day. Minnesota DNR lists it as “Benson”.

Minnesota DNR data pulled Nov 6, 2026.

A lake with mountains — Photo: arjayneyra, Pixabay License, Pixabay

Benson Lake in numbers

trout stocked in 2024: 2,500
yearly average, 2020–2023: 2,483
years stocked since 2020: 5

Stocking log

Every stocking record

Every trout stocking the DNR reports for this lake, by year, species and size class (fry, fingerlings, yearlings, adults), newest first.

Stocked in 20242,5002,500 splake

Every year since 2020
Year	Species	Size	Fish
2024	Splakefingerlings	fingerlings	2,500
2023	Splakefingerlings	fingerlings	2,500
2022	Splakefingerlings	fingerlings	2,745
2021	Splakefingerlings	fingerlings	2,830
2020	Splakefingerlings	fingerlings	1,857

2020 – 2024

Trout stocked each year

Shown from 2020 to 2024, the latest year the DNR has published. The tallest year is yellow.

1.9k2020: 1,857 fish
2.8k2021: 2,830 fish
2.7k2022: 2,745 fish
2.5k2023: 2,500 fish
2.5k2024: 2,500 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
Species	Fish	Share
Splake	12,432	100%

Where it is

Minnesota trout stocking All Lake County waters

This is a stream, and a stream has no single map point, so no map is shown.

Also in Lake County: Tofte Lake, Echo Lake, Divide Lake, Bean Lake, Hogback Lake, Glacier Pond 1, Beetle Lake, Bone Lake.

Source: DNR lake stocking report, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Pulled Nov 6, 2026. Check the agency and the current fishing rules before you go.