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Cattaraugus Creek

NYSDEC reported 508 trout stocked in Cattaraugus Creek (Erie County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is June 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

NYSDEC data pulled .

Cattaraugus Creek, New York
Photo: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Cattaraugus Creek in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
508
yearly average, 2020–2024
3,172
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, June 2025508508 brown trout
Spring 2026 plan
When (DEC wording)SpeciesFishSize
April - first week 2026Brown trout2,740 fish2,7409– 10 inches
April - first week 2026Brown trout330 fish33012–15 inches
2025 · 508 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
JuneBrown trout508 fish · Average length: 1 in50811 in
2024 · 2,880 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
AprilBrown trout2,880 fish · Average length: 9.3–13.6 in2,88029.3–13.6 in
2023 · 2,870 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
AprilBrown trout2,870 fish · Average length: 9–13.5 in2,87029–13.5 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
2025508 fish508
20242,880 fish2,880
20232,870 fish2,870
20222,060 fish2,060
20212,060 fish2,060
20205,990 fish5,990
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

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

  1. 6.0k2020: 5,990 fish
  2. 2.1k2021: 2,060 fish
  3. 2.1k2022: 2,060 fish
  4. 2.9k2023: 2,870 fish
  5. 2.9k2024: 2,880 fish
  6. 5082025: 508 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout16,368100%

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

Also in Erie County: Cazenovia Creek - East Branch, Little Buffalo Creek, Eighteenmile Creek, Cayuga Creek, Ellicott Creek, Sprague Brook Park - Foote Road, Sprague Brook Park A and B Pon, Sprague Brook Park Veteran's P.

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.