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Cayuga County

Lake Ontario

NYSDEC reported 34,100 trout stocked in Lake Ontario (Cayuga County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is May 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

NYSDEC data pulled .

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Lake Ontario in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
34,100
yearly average, 2020–2024
34,642
years stocked since 2020
6
Stocking log

Every stocking record

DEC stocking lists for the last three years on record, by month and species, newest first, then yearly totals, and the spring plan DEC published for this water. DEC lists each batch with its average length; where a month has several batches the range is shown.

Last stocked, May 202534,10034,100 brown trout
Spring 2026 plan
When (DEC wording)SpeciesFishSize
Mid May 2026Brown trout32,860 fish32,8608 inches
2025 · 34,100 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout34,100 fish · Average length: 7.9 in34,10017.9 in
2024 · 33,170 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout33,170 fish · Average length: 7.8 in33,17017.8 in
2023 · 30,996 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout30,996 fish · Average length: 7.8 in30,99617.8 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
202534,100 fish34,100
202433,170 fish33,170
202330,996 fish30,996
202232,010 fish32,010
202130,996 fish30,996
202046,040 fish46,040
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

DEC’s lists end with the latest year it has published. The tallest year is yellow.

  1. 46k2020: 46,040 fish
  2. 31k2021: 30,996 fish
  3. 32k2022: 32,010 fish
  4. 31k2023: 30,996 fish
  5. 33k2024: 33,170 fish
  6. 34k2025: 34,100 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout207,312100%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Cayuga County waters

No single map point is given for this water in the USGS names database, so no map is shown.

Also in Cayuga County: Owasco Lake, Owasco Inlet, Salmon Creek, Cayuga Lake, North Brook, Owasco Outlet, Dutch Hollow Brook, Fall Creek.

Source: DEC fish stocking lists (actual), data.ny.gov and the DEC spring trout stocking plan, data.ny.gov, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Pulled . Check the agency and the current fishing rules before you go.