(Indianapolis, IN) – A total of 7,250 brown trout and 1,955 rainbow trout have been stocked in 17 bodies of water across Indiana.
The stocked brown trout averaged 8.25 inches in length.
Indiana DNR says 1,610 brown trout were stocked at the Brookville Lake Tailwater.
Brown trout stocking locations also include:
- Fancher Lake, Lake County, 200 trout;
- Harbor Lake, Porter County, 240 trout;
- Little Kankakee River, LaPorte County, 250 trout;
- Potato Creek, St. Joseph County, 150 trout;
- Pinhook, St. Joseph County, 200 trout;
- Lawrence Lake, Marshall County, 1,380 trout;
- Myers Lake, Marshall County, 1,920 trout;
- Sand Lake, Noble County, 400 trout;
- Fairfield Northeast Lake, Tippecanoe County, 350 trout, and
- Boones Pond, Boone County, 550 trout.
Rainbow trout stocking locations include:
- Pinhook Lake, St. Joseph County, 200 trout;
- Shoaff Park Pond, Allen County, 300 trout;
- Memorial Park Pond, Huntington County, 200 trout;
- Johnson Lake, Jefferson County, 300 trout;
- Oak Lake, Clark County, 405 trout, and
- Garvin Park Lake, Vanderburgh County, 550 trout.
Anglers 18 and older will need an Indiana fishing license and a trout/salmon stamp to fish for trout.
The bag limit for trout is five. This includes any combination of brook, rainbow, or brown trout, but no more than one may be a brown trout.
There is no minimum size limit for lakes except for the 18-inch minimum size limit for brown trout at the Brookville Lake Tailwater, plus Oliver, Olin, and Martin lakes in LaGrange County.
Streams have a 7-inch minimum size limit.
There is no closed season for taking trout from inland lakes.
Streams close to trout fishing from Dec. 31 to the last Saturday in April.
For more information on DNR fish stockings, visit on.IN.gov/fish-stocking.
For more information about inland trout regulations, visit http://www.eregulations.com/indiana/fishing/inland-trout-regulations/.
