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Butternut Creek

NYSDEC reported 7,300 trout stocked in Butternut Creek (Onondaga County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is April 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

NYSDEC data pulled .

Butternut Creek, New York
Photo: Shannon1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Butternut Creek in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
7,300
yearly average, 2020–2024
10,665
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, April 20254,6504,200 brown trout; 450 brook trout
2025 · 7,300 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
AprilBrown trout4,200 fish · Average length: 7.2–13.1 in4,20047.2–13.1 in
AprilBrook trout450 fish · Average length: 9.1 in45019.1 in
MarchBrown trout2,650 fish · Average length: 7.1–13 in2,65027.1–13 in
2024 · 8,550 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout2,400 fish · Average length: 9–12.2 in2,40039–12.2 in
AprilBrown trout4,050 fish · Average length: 9–12.1 in4,05049–12.1 in
AprilBrook trout450 fish · Average length: 9.6 in45019.6 in
MarchBrown trout1,650 fish · Average length: 9–12.3 in1,65029–12.3 in
2023 · 8,525 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout2,525 fish · Average length: 9–12.1 in2,52529–12.1 in
AprilBrown trout3,900 fish · Average length: 9–12.7 in3,90049–12.7 in
AprilBrook trout450 fish · Average length: 9 in45019 in
MarchBrown trout1,650 fish · Average length: 9–12.1 in1,65029–12.1 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
20257,300 fish7,300
20248,550 fish8,550
20238,525 fish8,525
20229,550 fish9,550
20219,500 fish9,500
202017,200 fish17,200
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

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

  1. 17k2020: 17,200 fish
  2. 9.5k2021: 9,500 fish
  3. 9.6k2022: 9,550 fish
  4. 8.5k2023: 8,525 fish
  5. 8.6k2024: 8,550 fish
  6. 7.3k2025: 7,300 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout53,27588%
Brook trout7,35012%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Onondaga County waters

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

Also in Onondaga County: Ninemile Creek, Limestone Creek, Spruce Pond, Green Lakes, Carpenter's Brook, Fabius Brook, Geddes Brook, Skaneateles Lake.

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.