Nevada Trout Stocking Report 2026

Every sentence here comes from the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), and each section names its sources. Updated .

The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) raises rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout at three hatcheries and a rearing station: Mason Valley near Yerington, Gallagher in Ruby Valley, Lake Mead near Las Vegas and Spring Creek near Baker. It stocks reservoirs and streams that cannot hold enough fish on their own, and community ponds in Reno, Carson City, Las Vegas and other towns. Stocking follows the water temperature, because many waters get too warm for trout in late spring and summer. In western Nevada ponds such as Baily Fishing Pond in Carson City, trout go in from March through June and again in the fall; in southern Nevada the ponds get trout in the cool months and catfish in the warm ones.

From NDOW: Fishing & Stocking Reports, NDOW: Plan Your Fishing Trip, NDOW stocking update: Paradise Pond, October 13, 2026, NDOW: Baily Fishing Pond Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF), NDOW: Lorenzi Park Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF) and NDOW: Mesquite Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF).

The NDOW trout stocking report

NDOW's stocking updates and fishing reports, which can be filtered by region (Eastern, Southern or Western), by report type, by water, by type of water and by county. Choose Stocking Updates as the report type. Each update gives the date, the number and kind of fish, their length and the water's total for the year so far.

Open the Fishing & Stocking Reports Database

From NDOW: Fishing & Stocking Reports Database and NDOW stocking update: Paradise Pond, October 13, 2026.

When Nevada stocks trout

Spring and fall in western Nevada ponds

Community ponds in western Nevada, such as Baily Fishing Pond in Carson City and Mitch Park Pond in Gardnerville, are stocked with rainbow trout regularly from March through June and again in the fall, when the water cools.

Winter trout in southern Nevada ponds

In southern Nevada the ponds get trout in winter and catfish in the warm months. At Mesquite Pond trout go in once a month from November through March, and catfish in April, June, September and October. In Las Vegas, NDOW's guides to the Lorenzi Park and Sunset Park ponds say nothing is stocked in July because of the heat, and that fishing slows in April and October, at the changeover between trout and catfish.

From NDOW: Baily Fishing Pond Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF), NDOW: Mitch Park Pond Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF), NDOW: Mesquite Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF), NDOW: Lorenzi Park Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF) and NDOW: Sunset Park Pond Angler Guide (PDF).

Rules on stocked water

  • Anyone 12 or older needs a fishing license, and so does anyone who helps someone fish without fishing themselves, whatever the other person's age.
  • Residents pay $40 a year or $9 for a day, plus $3 for each day after; nonresidents pay $80 a year or $18 for a day, plus $7 for each day after. Anglers 12 to 17 can buy a $15 youth hunt and fish license. A small processing fee is added.
  • At the community ponds the limit is 3 game fish a day, and NDOW's guides to the southern ponds set the possession limit at twice the daily limit.

From NDOW: Fishing Licenses, NDOW: Baily Fishing Pond Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF), NDOW: Sparks Marina Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF), NDOW: Lorenzi Park Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF) and NDOW: Mesquite Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF).

How to hear about a stocking

  • NDOW posts its stockings as stocking updates, in the database and on its calendar.
  • NDOW's southern Nevada pond guides list a stocking hotline: (702) 486-6738.
  • NDOW's angler guides, updated by its biologists each spring, give a water's recent stocking and the forecast for the season ahead.

From NDOW: Fishing & Stocking Reports, NDOW: Lorenzi Park Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF) and NDOW: Angler Information Guides.

Worth knowing before you go looking

  • Go soon after a stocking: NDOW's guides say fishing for stocked trout is best within a week of one.
  • Sparks Marina is stocked throughout the year: 12,050 rainbow, 8,047 brown and 3,510 tiger trout in 2025, most 8 to 12 inches long, and about as many planned for 2026.
  • Many waters have their own rules, and the bait allowed varies from water to water, so read the rules for the one you plan to fish.

From NDOW: Lorenzi Park Pond Angler Guide, 2025 (PDF), NDOW: Sunset Park Pond Angler Guide (PDF), NDOW: Sparks Marina Angler Information Guide, 2026 (PDF) and NDOW: Plan Your Fishing Trip.

Which day to fish it

The schedule says where the fish went in. Which day to go is a different question: the forecast scores each day of the week for trout at the water you pick, from its water temperature, the wind and the weather.

See the week for rainbow trout

Species guides: Rainbow Trout · Brown Trout · Cutthroat Trout

Sources

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