ODNR Rainbow Trout Stocking Schedule Jump to Latest 9.3K views 25 replies 20 participants last post by airwaves Bowhunter57 Discussion starter This new stocking plan makes a good degree of sense, but skipping Punderson--one of the only inland lakes that can support a year round trout fishery--doesnt. If the state is going to invest in trout stocking, why would they skip the one place that might actually have something of a viable fishery? It has for decades.

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Just finished building & stocking a pond in the last 2 years, size is 1 acre + and is 19'-0 at the deepest. Got lucky and a contractor needed fill dirt for a project near our farm, so it was done for free. All of our watershed is farmground. We built a drain basin that runs into the pond to eliminate silting of the pond.

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Walleye stocking around here is an absolute joke. Even in the spring you need a boat to get em (one fish a week off 224 @ Berlin doesnt count) and even then mosquito and berlin are the only lakes worth trying. Hello all, first post. I am aware that the ODNR stocks rainbows in November, but I haven't seen any confirmation of that for 2025. Is there something I don't know?

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I plan to wait until later in December to fish it anyway, but only if they are actually stocking it. Thanks in advance for any... Stocking predominately fall run fish makes it seem worse, since we haven't experienced good consistent fall flows for a while. Noticed that Michigan's steelhead take has been reduced since covid, so not enough extra to go around to other states, including Ohio. Silver Creek in Norton Trout Stocking Jump to Latest 4.3K views 9 replies 7 participants last post by guppygill guppygill Discussion starter Our target stocking rate for saugeye fingerlings is 100/acre. These fish are raised in hatchery ponds for about a month and then stocked at 1-1.5” lengths in mid to late-May.

Our target stocking rate for saugeye fry is 1,000/acre. The higher rate is to account for the expected decrease in survival associated with stocking smaller fish.