The Department of Natural Resources stocked 624,205 fish weight 7.8 tons in Michigan waters during fall 2022.
Brook trout, Eagle Lake and steelhead strain rainbow trout, walleye and muskellunge were among the species stocked at 85 locations across the state.
“It was another outstanding fall fish stocking season that will provide enhanced fishing opportunities throughout Michigan,” said DNR fish production manager Ed Eisch. “When added to our successful spring and summer stocking efforts, that brings the total for 2022 to more than 17 million fish stocked in Michigan’s waters.”
The number and type of fish stocked vary by hatchery, as each facility’s ability to rear fish differs because of water supplies and temperature. Most fish in Michigan are stocked in the spring.
Here is a closer look at where fish were stocked in the fall.
- Marquette State Fish Hatchery (near Marquette) stocked 28,922 fall fingerling and adult brook trout that weighed a combined 2,492 pounds. These fish were stocked at 41 locations, both in the Upper and Lower peninsulas.
- Oden State Fish Hatchery (near Petoskey) stocked Glen Lake with 50,688 Eagle Lake rainbow trout fall fingerlings weighing 640 pounds.
- Thompson State Fish Hatchery (near Manistique) stocked 334,036 fall fingerling steelhead, weighing 3,730 pounds, at four locations.
- Thompson also stocked 28,046 Great Lakes strain muskellunge that weighed 3,832 pounds at 18 locations in the Upper and Lower peninsulas.
- Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery (west of Kalamazoo) stocked 11,773 Great Lakes strain muskellunge fall fingerlings that weighed 1,299 pounds at 12 locations.
- Wolf Lake also stocked 150,418 fall fingerling steelhead, weighing 1,796 pounds, in two locations.
- DNR fisheries management units also stocked fall fingerling walleyes in 2022. The Southern Lake Michigan Management Unit stocked 17,084 Muskegon strain fall fingerlings weighing 842 pounds in 16 locations.
- The Lake Erie Management Unit stocked Pontiac Lake with 238 Muskegon strain fall fingerlings weighing 38 pounds.
- As part of an annual cooperative exchange, 3,000 Northern strain muskellunge from the Wisconsin DNR weighing 963 pounds were stocked in Lake Michigamme in the Upper Peninsula. The Michigan DNR provided Wisconsin with Great Lakes strain muskies in exchange for these fish.
According to the DNR, there are many factors that go into determining where and why fish are stocked in a particular lake or stream including current habitat, available forage fish, and predators and/or competitors in the body of water.
To find out if any fish were stocked in your favorite fishing spots, visit the DNR’s fish stocking database at MichiganDNR.com/FishStock/.
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