Texas trout stocking 2025-26 in numbers
TPWD's 2025-26 winter trout stocking schedule ran Nov 25, 2025 to Mar 8, 2026. These are TPWD's own figures for it, added up by TexCast. Every number is what TPWD listed: TexCast cannot confirm that each stocking took place, and dates can move or be cancelled.
- 197 stocking sites on TPWD's list
- 341,648 trout: the sum of the season total TPWD printed beside each site
- 399 listed stocking dates (7 more dates marked cancelled or postponed, not counted)
- 103 sites had a single listed date
When the dates fell
- November 2025: 18 listed dates
- December 2025: 138 listed dates
- January 2026: 128 listed dates
- February 2026: 95 listed dates
- March 2026: 20 listed dates
The busiest month on TPWD's list was December 2025, with 138 listed dates.
The biggest sites by TPWD's season total
- Canyon Tailrace (Guadalupe River), New Braunfels: 18,471 trout across 10 listed dates
- Possum Kingdom Tailrace, Graford: 9,000 trout across 6 listed dates
- Waterloo Park Pond, Denison: 6,500 trout across 4 listed dates
- Ascarate, El Paso: 6,000 trout across 4 listed dates
- Lake Zebco, Athens: 5,100 trout across 3 listed dates
The towns with the most listed dates
- Austin: 18 listed dates at 3 sites
- Spring: 15 listed dates at 5 sites
- Fort Worth: 12 listed dates at 3 sites
- San Antonio: 12 listed dates at 4 sites
- Houston: 11 listed dates at 6 sites
Notes on these figures
- Trout totals are the per-site season totals printed on TPWD's schedule page, added together. TPWD does not say how each total was reached.
- Dates come from TPWD's page as TexCast last read it on Sep 24, 2026. Weather and hatchery delays move dates, so the stockings that happened may differ from the ones listed.
- TPWD's table also lists one date outside the season (Spring Lake Park, Texarkana, Feb 26, 2025), which looks like a typo on TPWD's page. It is left out of every count here.
Source: TPWD winter trout stocking schedule, 2025-26 season, read Sep 24, 2026. TexCast is not part of TPWD.
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