Duck Lake

All 5,723 catchable trout stocked in Duck Lake in 2025 arrived between March and May.

WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated November 5, 2026.

Duck Lake in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 5,723
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 5,185
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 5,560 a year: +3%

2026 is running close to 2025: 5,185 fish through Oct 30, against 5,723 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 700 rainbow trout, went in on May 20, 2026, 169 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Duck Lake as 248.6 acres in Grays Harbor County. Spread over 248.6 acres, its 2025 stocking comes to about 23 catchable trout per acre, one of the lowest rates of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage. It is the largest of the 3 Grays Harbor County waters on this site.

Release log

Every release since January 2025

16 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.

Latest batch, May 20, 2026700rainbow trout, 9 oz each

Spring 2026

May 20Rainbow trout7001.8 per lb · avg 9 oz

May 8Rainbow trout2270.2 per lb · avg 5.0 lb

May 7Rainbow trout1,7002.2 per lb · avg 7 oz

May 5Rainbow trout2000.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Apr 20Rainbow trout9051 per lb · avg 1.0 lb

Apr 2Rainbow trout2530.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Apr 1Rainbow trout1,2002.7 per lb · avg 6 oz

Spring 2025

May 21Rainbow trout7001.7 per lb · avg 9 oz

May 9Rainbow trout3030.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

May 8Rainbow trout8900.8 per lb · avg 1.2 lb

May 6Rainbow trout1,3801.9 per lb · avg 8 oz

Apr 25Rainbow trout1110.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Apr 23Rainbow trout7002.3 per lb · avg 7 oz

Apr 22Rainbow trout90.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Apr 5Rainbow trout2500.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Mar 26Rainbow trout1,3802.6 per lb · avg 6 oz

2015 – 2026

Fish released each year

2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2018, with 8 release dates and 5,905 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 7.2 release dates a year.

2015: 5,570 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2016: 5,855 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2017: 5,530 catchable fish on 7 release dates
6k2018: 5,905 catchable fish on 8 release dates
2019: 5,507 catchable fish on 8 release dates
2020: 5,605 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2021: 5,070 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2022: 5,712 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2023: 4,857 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2024: 5,823 catchable fish on 8 release dates
6k2025: 5,723 catchable fish on 9 release dates
5k2026 (to Oct 30): 5,185 catchable fish on 7 release dates

How big are these fish?

4 to 8 oz: 4,980 fish, 46%
8 to 16 oz: 2,780 fish, 25%
1 to 2 lb: 1,795 fish, 16%
2 lb and over: 1,353 fish, 12%

Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.

Notes from the records

The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 1,700 rainbow trout on May 7, 2026. The heaviest fish were 227 rainbow trout on May 8, 2026, at 0.2 per lb, about 5.0 lb each.

Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.