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Arizona Game and Fish publishes its stocking plans as three separate spreadsheets: winter trout, spring and summer trout, and the Community Fishing Program. Each one is laid out differently, lists waters by their official names, and dates every plant by the Monday of the stocking week. If you just want to know whether the pond down the street got catfish this week, that means opening three files and cross-referencing them yourself.
This site pulls those schedules every day and combines them into one list you can search by lake, species, region, or your current location. Every date is labeled as a stocking week, because the truck can arrive any day that week and it rarely announces itself. Old weeks drop off automatically, so what you see is what is scheduled now rather than an archive.
The schedule is only half of planning a trip. The lake guides cover what the official sheets leave out: which urban ponds have shade and easy bank access, which high-country lakes are snowed in until late spring, where to launch a kayak, and which baits actually work on freshly stocked fish. Those notes are written for this site and are kept separate from the official AZGFD data, which stays the source of truth for dates.
The site is built and maintained by Dillon Luera, a Phoenix native who fishes these waters and got tired of digging through spreadsheets before every trip. It is independent and not affiliated with Arizona Game and Fish.
More about the site and how the data is handledBrowse stocking schedules by species, region, and lake. Find guides, data sources, and weekly reports.
Arizona Fish Stocking Schedule organizes public fish stocking information for Arizona lakes and ponds. Visitors can browse trout and catfish stocking schedules, see lake pages, and review this week’s stocking activity by region. Official stocking schedules may represent the week of stocking rather than a guaranteed single stocking day.
Arizona trout stocking typically follows seasonal patterns, with strong activity in cooler months, selected community fishing waters, and many higher-elevation lakes. Always check the latest schedule and remember that some official dates represent the week of stocking rather than a guaranteed same-day event.
Many Phoenix-area anglers focus on community fishing lakes and nearby urban waters. The site groups these lakes by city and region so users can quickly see stocked waters near Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Glendale, and nearby communities.
Yes. Arizona catfish stocking is a major draw in community fishing waters, especially around population centers. This site organizes those stocking schedules by lake, city, and region.
Not always. Official Arizona schedule dates can represent the Monday of the stocking week, and stocking can occur during that week. This site labels those dates as scheduled week information when appropriate.
Dates are AZGFD stocking weeks, not guaranteed plant days. How this data is sourced