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East Branch Ausable River

NYSDEC reported 17,600 trout stocked in East Branch Ausable River (Essex County) in 2025, the latest year in its stocking lists. The most recent month listed is May 2025. DEC lists stocking by month, not by day.

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East Branch Ausable River in numbers

trout stocked in 2025
17,600
yearly average, 2015–2024
20,849
years stocked since 2011
15
Stocking log

Every stocking record

DEC stocking lists for the last three years on record, by month and species, newest first, then yearly totals. DEC lists each batch with its average length; where a month has several batches the range is shown.

Last stocked, May 20252,5901,390 brook trout; 1,000 rainbow trout; 200 brown trout
2025 · 17,600 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrook trout1,39019 in
MayRainbow trout1,000611 in
MayBrown trout200111 in
AprilBrown trout15,01049.1–13.5 in
2024 · 17,620 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrook trout1,95019 in
AprilBrown trout14,87049–14 in
AprilRainbow trout800214 in
2023 · 17,740 fish
MonthSpeciesFishBatchesAverage length
MayBrook trout1,95019 in
MayRainbow trout600113 in
AprilBrown trout14,79049–13.5 in
AprilRainbow trout400114 in
Every year since 2011
YearFish
202517,600
202417,620
202317,740
202217,340
202118,090
202041,530
201918,510
201819,390
201719,645
201618,975
201519,650
201418,968
201319,390
201223,360
201120,385
2011 – 2025

Trout stocked each year

DEC’s lists end with the latest year it has published. The tallest year is yellow.

  1. 20k2011: 20,385 fish
  2. 23k2012: 23,360 fish
  3. 19k2013: 19,390 fish
  4. 19k2014: 18,968 fish
  5. 20k2015: 19,650 fish
  6. 19k2016: 18,975 fish
  7. 20k2017: 19,645 fish
  8. 19k2018: 19,390 fish
  9. 19k2019: 18,510 fish
  10. 42k2020: 41,530 fish
  11. 18k2021: 18,090 fish
  12. 17k2022: 17,340 fish
  13. 18k2023: 17,740 fish
  14. 18k2024: 17,620 fish
  15. 18k2025: 17,600 fish

What is stocked here

All records since 2011
SpeciesFishShare
Brown trout218,79871%
Rainbow trout61,12520%
Brook trout28,2709%

Where it is

New York trout stockingAll Essex County waters

No single map point is given for this water in the USGS names database, so no map is shown.

Also in Essex County: West Branch Ausable River, Boreas River.

Source: DEC fish stocking lists (actual), data.ny.gov and the DEC spring trout stocking plan, data.ny.gov, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Pulled . Check the agency and the current fishing rules before you go.