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Cayuga County

Owasco Inlet

NYSDEC reported 18,260 trout stocked in Owasco Inlet (Cayuga County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is October 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

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Owasco Inlet in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
18,260
yearly average, 2020–2024
21,856
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, October 202515,00015,000 rainbow trout
Spring 2026 plan
When (DEC wording)SpeciesFishSize
Mid April 2026Brown trout3,290 fish3,2909– 10 inches
2025 · 18,260 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
OctoberRainbow trout15,000 fish · Average length: 3.5 in15,00013.5 in
AprilBrown trout3,260 fish · Average length: 9.7 in3,26019.7 in
2024 · 23,100 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
OctoberRainbow trout20,000 fish · Average length: 3.7–4 in20,00023.7–4 in
AprilBrown trout3,100 fish · Average length: 9.5 in3,10019.5 in
2023 · 23,100 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
OctoberRainbow trout20,000 fish · Average length: 3.9 in20,00023.9 in
AprilBrown trout3,100 fish · Average length: 9.3 in3,10019.3 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
202518,260 fish18,260
202423,100 fish23,100
202323,100 fish23,100
202216,600 fish16,600
202118,500 fish18,500
202027,980 fish27,980
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

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

  1. 28k2020: 27,980 fish
  2. 18k2021: 18,500 fish
  3. 17k2022: 16,600 fish
  4. 23k2023: 23,100 fish
  5. 23k2024: 23,100 fish
  6. 18k2025: 18,260 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Rainbow trout107,80085%
Brown trout19,74015%

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, Salmon Creek, Cayuga Lake, North Brook, Owasco Outlet, Dutch Hollow Brook, Fall Creek, Lake Ontario.

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.