New Mexico’s Oct. 16 sheet: 25,428 triploid rainbows, including 8,503 at Eagle Nest

New Mexico’s latest hatchery sheet is all triploid rainbow trout. The Department of Game and Fish stocking report for Oct. 10–16, 2026, time-stamped 10:52 a.m. on Oct. 16, lists 25,428 fish and 13,351 pounds.

Eagle Nest Lake is the biggest water on the page: 4,161 fish at 10.6 inches (2,010 pounds) on Oct. 14 and 4,342 fish at 10.5 inches (2,010 pounds) on Oct. 15, both from Red River Trout Hatchery. That is 8,503 fish and 4,020 pounds. Other large plants: Bill Evans Lake, 3,176 fish on Oct. 16; the Pecos River in Pecos Canyon, 3,001 fish on Oct. 15 from Lisboa Springs; Lake Maloya, 3,000 fish on Oct. 13; Snow Lake, 1,656 fish on Oct. 14; and the Jemez River, 1,001 fish on Oct. 15.

The same sheet includes a 16-inch plant of 717 fish (1,195 pounds) in the Red River below Questa on Oct. 13, and 108 fish at 16 inches in a 180-pound load at Monastery Lake the same day, on top of 1,006 smaller rainbows there. Smaller Oct. 16 drops include Eagle Rock Lake (601), Glenwood Pond (479), Blue Hole Park Pond (111), El Rito Creek near Santa Rosa (51), and 21 fish in the kids’ ponds at Rock Lake. This stocking file is separate from the Oct. 15 Fishing Line already on the desk.

This is a The Gillnet news desk summary, not a reprint.

Source: New Mexico Department of Game and Fish — Stocking Report 10-16-26 (stocking report by date for Oct. 10–16, 2026). Listed from the weekly reports page.