Stocked

FMZ 8 · Cochrane · Chapleau District · unofficial name

Downey Lake

Downey Lake (FMZ 8) was last stocked in 2025 with 500 Brook Trout yearlings.

Records here go back to 1988: 22 stocking events in total.

Fish stocked per yearShaded years 2021–2023: those fish should be catchable size now
2016: 750 Brook Trout750201620172018: 750 Brook Trout750201820192020: 750 Brook Trout750202020212022202320242025: 500 Brook Trout50020252026
  • Brook Trout

By species

  • Brook TroutStill growing
    Last stocked
    2025
    Stocked 2021–2023
    0
    Last 10 yrs
    2,000

    Recent stockings, but most of those fish are still small.

Stocking history

YearSpeciesStageFishNotes
2025Brook Troutyearlings500
2020Brook Troutyearlings750
2018Brook Troutyearlings750
2016Brook Troutyearlings750
Older records (18 stockings, 1988–2014)
DateSpeciesStageFishStrain / purpose
2014-05-22Brook Troutyearlings900Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2012-05-07Brook Troutyearlings750Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2010-04-20Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2009-05-12Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2008-05-12Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2006-05-18Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2005-05-20Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2004-05-11Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2003-05-26Brook Troutyearlings500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
2001-05-30Brook Troutyearlings2,000Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
1999-05-26Brook Troutyearlings2,000Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
1997-06-03Brook Troutyearlings2,000Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
1994-04-07Brook Troutyearlings1,500Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
1992-06-04Brook Troutyearlings2,000Hills Lake · Put-Grow-and Take
1991-05-13Brook Troutyearlings1,750Put-Grow-and Take
1989-05-27Brook Troutyearlings1,750Put-Grow-and Take
1988-10-13Brook Troutfingerlings3,000Put-Grow-and Take
1988-05-15Brook Troutyearlings2,000Put-Grow-and Take

Recent records (2016 on) are year-only; MNRF does not publish stocking dates. Historical records (to 2015) include dates and strain.

Where it is

47.8773, -83.3537 · Open in OpenStreetMap