Dates when lakes are planted?

[trophyhunt]

Is there a site that has dates when lakes are planted? Wanting to plan a trip on the west side w kids but this lake sucks if not planted.  Don’t want to say which lake till we book a spot. 

[Mfowl]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants&ved=2ahUKEwjZ_diEqrn8AhUyNX0KHRbbD_gQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2dsfw5NqJogTJ6CPsZGDJZ

Hope that worked

[HUNTIN4SIX]

That was my career before the mandate....
The majority get planted toward spring.  That link Mfowl sent in great.  They also don't always report fish plant 3fpp and smaller, just FYI.
Good luck!

[Stein]

Anyone ever go to a lake that was supposedly planted but when you get there it hasn't been?

I hiked 7 miles up to a high lake that was supposedly planted two weeks before with a couple thousand catchable size fish.  We were the only ones fishing in the 3 days we were there, saw nothing, no bites and exactly zero fish seen surfacing.

[trophyhunt]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants&ved=2ahUKEwjZ_diEqrn8AhUyNX0KHRbbD_gQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2dsfw5NqJogTJ6CPsZGDJZ

Hope that worked

typed in the lake I’m looking at and it said nothing found, and it seems there aren’t enough lakes shown. I’m prob doing something wrong

[glocksWetrust]

I don’t know the answer to that . But I have a pretty dumb question I some how couldn’t find on Google . When exactly is trout fishing in lakes ? I know it’s usually the 3rd Saturday in April but Google says lakes are open year round in washington? So like can I go fishing tomorrow after work if I felt like it legally , or no ?

[HUNTIN4SIX]

Anyone ever go to a lake that was supposedly planted but when you get there it hasn't been?

I hiked 7 miles up to a high lake that was supposedly planted two weeks before with a couple thousand catchable size fish.  We were the only ones fishing in the 3 days we were there, saw nothing, no bites and exactly zero fish seen surfacing.

Never heard of a high lake being planted with catchables.  I have packed fish into high lakes with horses and mules, but all fish were small.  I don’t think wdfw does plane or helicopter plants anymore.  Maybe I’m wrong? 
I have personally planted lakes many times all to be accused I didn’t plant it.  I told them the must suck at fishing....    I have also taken my children to lakes freshly planted with zero success.

[HUNTIN4SIX]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants&ved=2ahUKEwjZ_diEqrn8AhUyNX0KHRbbD_gQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2dsfw5NqJogTJ6CPsZGDJZ

Hope that worked

typed in the lake I’m looking at and it said nothing found, and it seems there aren’t enough lakes shown. I’m prob doing something wrong

Spelling?  Or could be lake such n such or such n such lake.  Some of their look ups can be goofy.

[metlhead]

Yes to lakes being open year around in Washington. One needs to look in the special rules any individual lake for rules specific to that body of water that supercede the general rule. Sometimes it may be opening dates.

[HUNTIN4SIX]

I don’t know the answer to that . But I have a pretty dumb question I some how couldn’t find on Google . When exactly is trout fishing in lakes ? I know it’s usually the 3rd Saturday in April but Google says lakes are open year round in washington? So like can I go fishing tomorrow after work if I felt like it legally , or no ?

Many lakes are subject to different seasons.  Wdfw has moved many lakes to year round over the last several years.
I don’t think an officer would let you use google as a excuse...   Try it! 

[Bullkllr]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants&ved=2ahUKEwjZ_diEqrn8AhUyNX0KHRbbD_gQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2dsfw5NqJogTJ6CPsZGDJZ

Hope that worked

typed in the lake I’m looking at and it said nothing found, and it seems there aren’t enough lakes shown. I’m prob doing something wrong

Spelling?  Or could be lake such n such or such n such lake.  Some of their look ups can be goofy.

Nah- that's the last 30 days plant list only. You can link to the See all catchable trout plants for this year tab above the table or https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants/all

Edit it's only 1/8/23, so you need to look up last years plants under the stocking report archive link or https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/reports/stocking/trout-plants/archive/2022

[Skyvalhunter]

Anyone ever go to a lake that was supposedly planted but when you get there it hasn't been?

I hiked 7 miles up to a high lake that was supposedly planted two weeks before with a couple thousand catchable size fish.  We were the only ones fishing in the 3 days we were there, saw nothing, no bites and exactly zero fish seen surfacing.

As someone that plants lakes for the state the kind of lakes your Talking 7 miles in are stocked with fry. The only fish you would catch then are holdover from the previous stocking cycle of that lake.
  As for the drive up lakes stocked by the state with legal sized fish it's right before the opener unless that lake is one of the open year round. Typically those lakes planted before the opener are a softer meat fish from being fed at the hatchery. But still fun for the kids to catch.

[callturner]

Ha, you're using the wrong bait. Those new fish are looking for oatmeal, not worms.

[GWP]

Three of us went East some years back and fished a lake stocked with ‘catchables’. Tried a number of things with no joy.
One other person on the lake a ways down that was catching fish. FIL (oldest in the group) went down and asked what he was using. The guy matched bait (powerbait?) to what the food pellets the hatcheries used looked like.

[BigGoonTuna]

The cormorant population has exploded on the west side in recent years and they can clean a lake out fast.