Clear Lake

Clear Lake gets two rounds of trout. In 2025, 38,377 catchable fish went in during spring and 26,005 in autumn, which is 40% of the year’s 64,382.

WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated November 5, 2026.

Clear Lake in numbers

catchable trout in 2025: 64,382
so far in 2026, through Oct 30: 36,984
2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 41,648 a year: +55%

2026 is running behind 2025: 36,984 fish through Oct 30, against 64,382 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 8,504 rainbow trout, went in on May 8, 2026, 181 days before this page was built.

WDFW lists Clear Lake as 315.9 acres in Spokane County, at 2,344 ft. Its 2025 stocking came to about 204 catchable trout per acre, 19th of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage.

Release log

Every release since January 2025

11 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.

Latest batch, May 8, 20268,504rainbow trout, 8 oz each

Spring 2026

May 8Rainbow trout8,5041.9 per lb · avg 8 oz

Mar 12Rainbow trout9,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 6Rainbow trout3500.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

Mar 3Rainbow trout10,1304.1 per lb · avg 4 oz

Mar 3Brown trout9,0005 per lb · avg 3 oz

Autumn 2025

Oct 23Rainbow trout26,00510 per lb · avg 2 oz

Spring 2025

May 9Rainbow trout10,0171.5 per lb · avg 11 oz

Mar 10Rainbow trout10,0004.1 per lb · avg 4 oz

Mar 6Rainbow trout9,0002.5 per lb · avg 6 oz

Mar 5Brown trout9,0105.3 per lb · avg 3 oz

Mar 5Rainbow trout3500.3 per lb · avg 3.3 lb

2015 – 2026

Fish released each year

2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2015, with 9 release dates and 71,504 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 6.0 release dates a year.

72k2015: 71,504 catchable fish on 9 release dates
2016: 44,000 catchable fish on 10 release dates
2017: 31,470 catchable fish on 6 release dates
2018: 35,852 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2019: 34,107 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2020: 25,303 catchable fish on 4 release dates
2021: 18,353 catchable fish on 3 release dates
2022: 34,211 catchable fish on 5 release dates
2023: 38,102 catchable fish on 7 release dates
2024: 60,841 catchable fish on 7 release dates
64k2025: 64,382 catchable fish on 5 release dates
37k2026 (to Oct 30): 36,984 catchable fish on 4 release dates

How big are these fish?

Under 4 oz: 64,145 fish, 63%
4 to 8 oz: 18,000 fish, 18%
8 to 16 oz: 18,521 fish, 18%
2 lb and over: 700 fish, 1%

Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.

Notes from the records

The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 26,005 rainbow trout on Oct 23, 2025. The heaviest fish were 350 rainbow trout on Mar 6, 2026, at 0.3 per lb, about 3.3 lb each.

Species in these records: rainbow trout, brown trout.

Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.