ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- The Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife announced its plans to stock 35,000 rainbow and brown trout across Indiana this spring in preparation for the inland trout fishing season, which opens Saturday.

The season is open for inland streams.

Indiana DNR officials say 19 streams across 13 counties are anticipated to receive fish before and after opening day, with most of the lake stockings of rainbow trout having been done in March. Trout fishing on inland lakes is open year-round.

DNR officials say several sites will get additional rainbow trout stockings until Memorial Day weekend.  

Local stocked trout fishing locations include:

• Kosciusko County - Wyland Lake 
• LaGrange County - Martin Lake
• LaGrange County - Oliver Lake 
• LaGrange County - Rainbow Pit
• LaGrange County - Little Elkhart River
• LaGrange County - Pigeon River
• LaGrange County - Rowe-Eden Ditch
• LaGrange County - Turkey Creek
• Elkhart County - Cobus Creek 
• Elkhart County - Little Elkhart River 
• Elkhart County - Rowe-Eden Ditch 
• Elkhart County Solomon Creek 
• Fulton County - Mill Creek 
• La Porte County Little Kankakee River
• La Porte County - Slocum Ditch
• St. Joseph County - Potato Creek
• St. Joseph County - Pinhook Park

You can find a stocked stream near you and see the 2025 trout stocking plan on the DNR website.

DNR officials say the bag limit for trout in inland waters other than Lake Michigan and its tributaries is five per day with a minimum size of seven inches.

They add no more than one of an angler’s catch can be a brown trout, and there is no size limit for trout on inland lakes except for any harvested brown trout caught below the Brookville Lake tailwater or from Oliver, Olin, or Martin Lakes. Those trout must be 18 inches or larger to be kept.

To fish for trout, anglers must be 18 or older and have an Indiana fishing license with a trout/salmon stamp.

You can purchase your license online.