2021 Trout Stocking Information
The Georgia Wildlife Resources Division stocks trout in the streams, rivers and small lakes listed below. Trout stocking begins in March and continues through October. The stocking frequency of each waterbody listed below is based on the following: area available, fishing pressure, and summer water temperatures.
Notes: The tables below are grouped by stocking frequency and include water body name and the county in which it is located. Asterisks ( * ) indicate a variation from the main heading of each group.
Table 1. Stocked weekly from April through July, then twice before Labor Day, and once in the fall (September/October).
Water body County Water body County
Boggs Creek Lumpkin Nottely River** Union Blue Ridge Tailwaters Fannin Panther Creek* Stephens Chattahoochee River White Rock Creek Fannin Cooper Creek Union Sarah's Creek Rabun Dicks Creek Lumpkin Smith Creek White Etowah River** Lumpkin Soapstone Creek** Towns Holly Creek Murray Soque River Habersham Jasus Creek White Tallulah River Rabun Forsyth, Lanier Tailwaters Tallulah River Towns Gwinnett Low Gap Creek White Toccoa River** Fannin Middle Fork Broad R.* Stephens Warwoman Creek Rabun Moccasin Creek Rabun West Fork Chattooga Rabun Nimblewill Creek** Lumpkin Wildcat Creek Rabun
* Stocked weekly until July 4th, not stocked afterward. ** Stocked weekly until July 4th, twice monthly afterward.
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Table 2. Stocked twice each month from April through July.
Water body County Water body County
Amicalola Creek Dawson Owl Town Creek Gilmer
Big Creek** Fannin Panther Creek Habersham Cochran Creek Dawson Pumpkinpile Creek* Polk
Dockery Lake* Lumpkin Pumpkinvine Creek* Paulding
Frogtown Creek Lumpkin Raccoon Creek* Paulding Hartwell Tailwaters Hart Raper Creek Habersham
Hiawassee River** Towns Spoilcane Creek White Hemptown Creek* Fannin Stamp Creek Bartow Holcomb Creek Rabun Swallow Creek Towns Hothouse Creek* Fannin Taliaferro Creek Chattooga Johns Creek Floyd Toccoa River Union
Little Amicalola Creek Dawson Vogel Lake*** Union Little Cedar Creek Floyd Watermill Creek* Haralson Little Chickamauga Cr. Walker West Armuchee Creek Walker Long Swamp Creek* Pickens West Fork Wolf Creek** Union Mill Creek Murray Winfield Scott Lake* Union
Mountaintown Creek Gilmer
* Stocked twice each month until July 4th, not stocked afterward. ** Stocked twice each month until July 4th, once each month afterward. *** Stocked twice a month until July 4th, once each month in the winter.
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Table 3. Stocked once each month from March through August.
Water body County Water body County Brasstown Creek Towns Sautee Creek White
Brasstown Creek Union Tickanetley Creek Gilmer
Cartecay River Gilmer Timpson Creek** Rabun Chestatee River Lumpkin Town Creek White
Coosawattee River Gilmer Turner Creek White
Table 4. Stocked four times from March through August.
Water body County Water body County
Black Rock Lake* Rabun Rock Creek Lake* Fannin Big Turniptown Creek Gilmer Ruff Creek Chattooga Chickamauga Creek White Stonewall Creek* Rabun Clear Creek Gilmer Storey Mill Creek Chattooga Dykes Creek Floyd Suches Creek* Union Ellijay River* Gilmer Sugar Creek* Fannin Mt. Hope Creek Floyd Tiger Creek* Rabun
Nancytown Lake** Habersham Ward Creek* Lumpkin
* No stocking after July 4th. ** Stocking to begin in February.
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Table 5. Stocked twice each year in March and May.
Water body County Water body County Boardtown Creek* Gilmer Hightower Creek Towns
Canada Creek* Union Little Tennessee River* Rabun
Cane Creek* Lumpkin Little Tesnatee Creek* White Cedar Creek Polk Silver Creek Floyd
Clay Creek* Lumpkin Turkey Creek Gilmer Duck Creek Walker Wilscot Creek* Fannin
East Fork Little River 1 Walker Yahoola Creek* Lumpkin East Fork Little River 2 Chattooga
Table 6. Stocked once each year.
Water body County Water body County Coosa Creek Union Town Creek Union Dukes Creek White Rock Creek Gilmer Little Fightingtown Creek Fannin Rock Creek 2 Murray Noontootla Creek Fannin Waters Creek Lumpkin
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