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Essex County

Ausable River

NYSDEC reported 61,100 trout stocked in Ausable River (Essex 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.

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Ausable River in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
61,100
yearly average, 2020–2024
23,648
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. DEC lists each batch with its average length; where a month has several batches the range is shown.

Last stocked, May 202561,10060,000 landlocked salmon; 600 brown trout; 500 rainbow trout
2025 · 61,100 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayLandlocked salmon60,000 fish · Average length: 1 in60,00011 in
MayBrown trout600 fish · Average length: 11–18 in600311–18 in
MayRainbow trout500 fish · Average length: 11 in500211 in
2024 · 46,150 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayLandlocked salmon44,750 fish · Average length: 1 in44,75011 in
AprilRainbow trout700 fish · Average length: 12–14 in700212–14 in
AprilBrown trout700 fish · Average length: 11 in700211 in
2023 · 43,800 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayLandlocked salmon42,000 fish · Average length: 1 in42,00011 in
AprilRainbow trout900 fish · Average length: 13–14 in900213–14 in
AprilBrown trout900 fish · Average length: 14 in900214 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
202561,100 fish61,100
202446,150 fish46,150
202343,800 fish43,800
20221,500 fish1,500
20211,800 fish1,800
202024,990 fish24,990
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

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

  1. 25k2020: 24,990 fish
  2. 1.8k2021: 1,800 fish
  3. 1.5k2022: 1,500 fish
  4. 44k2023: 43,800 fish
  5. 46k2024: 46,150 fish
  6. 61k2025: 61,100 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Landlocked salmon167,04093%
Brown trout6,4004%
Rainbow trout5,9003%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Essex County waters

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

Also in Essex County: West Branch Ausable River, Boreas River, East Branch Ausable River, La Chute River, Boquet River, Schroon River, Moose Pond, Saranac River.

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.