Fish Stocking Info

[Quillback]

AGFC has stocked 62,800 striped bass fingerlings and 179,460 walleye fingerlings into Beaver lake this spring.

[Feathers and Fins]

Like the walleye numbers, Need about a million more

[Quillback]

Like the walleye numbers, Need about a million more

If you'd quit catching them all, they would not need to stock so many, LOL.

[Feathers and Fins]

If they would stop tasting so good I would stop catching them

[nathanhooper]

I saw that too. Makes you wonder the survival rate(not counting people catching and releasing to the live well). I know a lot will get eaten by other fish.

Makes me happy. I have not kept up in the past, but how often do they stock the lake?

[Quillback]

As far as I know, once a year for stripers and walleye. They also stocked some LM fingerlings this year, and they always release crappie fingerlings once a year. And there's catfish, both blues and channels, that are stocked. The cats are usually "catchable" sized when they are stocked.

[Feathers and Fins]

Need to stock trout in winter, I know a few AGFC people are reading this site... Prairie Creek would be a great place right next the swim beach would be great giving people a chance to catch them and maybe give a few the chance to get in the lake and grow big.

[nathanhooper]

I guess trout would survive all year round in the lake? Or would there not be enough oxygen for them down in the cooler water durring the summer?

I remember a time when I was very young. Maybe 10? I went to the lake for a family outing. My dad didn't fish, but I liked to(when I got the chance). I swear I was fishing a bluff line, dropping my bait(I have to idea what I was using) down deep in the water, and I was catching rainbow trout.

It might not have been, but that memory sticks with me. This would have been late 80's?

[Feathers and Fins]

They would live if they could get past the stripers. My honest reason for wanting them in the lake and specifically Prairie Creek is there is a large area of shore accessible to shore anglers, it is not near as easy to throw over the limit in a car or truck like at Lake Poachlanta, and in Beaver they could obtain some very large sizes if they survive the initial fishing pressure and the stripers. To me it would be a win for people and lake.

[Quillback]

Surviving the stripers would be the challenge.