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Wayne County

Lake Ontario

NYSDEC reported 53,020 trout stocked in Lake Ontario (Wayne 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 .

A lake with forest and trees
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Lake Ontario in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
53,020
yearly average, 2020–2024
92,502
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 202553,02053,020 brown trout
Spring 2026 plan
When (DEC wording)SpeciesFishSize
May 2026Brown trout29,260 fish29,2608 inches
May 2026Brown trout21,840 fish21,8408 inches
2025 · 53,020 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout53,020 fish · Average length: 8.5–8.9 in53,02028.5–8.9 in
2024 · 130,841 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayLake trout79,271 fish · Average length: 6.7–6.9 in79,27126.7–6.9 in
MayBrown trout51,570 fish · Average length: 7.7–7.8 in51,57037.7–7.8 in
2023 · 48,200 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrown trout48,200 fish · Average length: 7.8–8.8 in48,20047.8–8.8 in
Every year since 2020
YearFish
202553,020 fish53,020
2024130,841 fish130,841
202348,200 fish48,200
2022127,870 fish127,870
202159,090 fish59,090
202096,510 fish96,510
2020 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

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

  1. 97k2020: 96,510 fish
  2. 59k2021: 59,090 fish
  3. 128k2022: 127,870 fish
  4. 48k2023: 48,200 fish
  5. 131k2024: 130,841 fish
  6. 53k2025: 53,020 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2020
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout280,79054%
Lake trout234,74146%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Wayne County watersTrout stocking near Rochester

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

Also in Wayne County: Maxwell 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.