BDFish, LLC is a family run trout and char hatchery working out of spring fed raceways at 1322 N 400 E, Centerville, 84014-1238, United States. Every batch begins as eggs taken under cold water in winter and ends as strong fry and fingerlings released into ponds, reservoirs, and private clubs across the Mountain West. We keep the counts honest, the water clean, and the fish moving.
This is the rack room. Each tray below holds a live batch and a service we run for ponds, clubs, and landowners who care where their fish come from. Follow any tray deeper on the services page.
We spawn brood stock in our own spring water and set the eggs into stacked incubation trays within hours, so the eye up stage arrives on schedule. Temperature holds near 52F, which stretches incubation into a slow, even hatch that produces lively alevins. Every lot is tagged with the tray number you see here and tracked from green egg to swim up.
Read the incubation methodAfter the yolk sac is absorbed, fry move into long concrete raceways where flowing spring water keeps oxygen high and crowding low. We grade and split the fish as they grow so each trough carries a uniform size class, and the fingerlings you receive are graded, healthy, and ready to travel. Rearing runs through every season of the year.
See the rearing scheduleClubs and growers who need extra capacity can lease a raceway section and grow their own fish under our water and our watch. We handle feeding flow, cleaning, and the daily walk of the troughs, and you get a dedicated channel with a clear count. Leases are seasonal or year round depending on availability.
Review lease termsOur crew loads fingerlings into insulated tanks with aerated spring water and drives them to your pond or reservoir across the Mountain West. We match water temperature on arrival, net the fish into the water by hand, and leave you a written count. Deliveries are booked around the cool hours so the fish never ride through the heat of the day.
Book a delivery routeWe test dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, and clarity at fixed points along the raceway run, and we log every reading by hand and by meter. Regular monitoring lets us catch a falling oxygen line before the fish ever show stress. Pond owners can add a monitoring visit that includes a written report and water treatment advice for the season ahead.
Understand the testingWhen a pond is ready to thin out or a club wants table fish, we arrive with nets, tanks, and a sorting grate. Fish are graded by size, counted, and either moved to a new water or kept live for harvest. The grate work is careful and quick, and every load leaves with a paper trail that matches the count in the tank.
Plan a harvest dayBDFish, LLC opens its winter egg-take window for Mountain West ponds. When the spring holds at 52F we start the spawn, and we hold that cold line through the whole hatch.
Our raceways run on a spring that does not freeze and does not warm much, so the fish live in the same clean water all year. That steady cold is why our egg take and incubation stays slow and even, and why fry from this bench travel well when they leave. We do not push the water to speed the fish up. We let the spring set the pace and work to it.
Fingerling rearing happens in two long parallel raceways, each one walked twice a day for feed, flow, and dead loss. We grade fish with a sorting grate as they grow, which keeps size classes honest and reduces competition at the feed line. If you want fish held for a season before pickup, our raceway leases give you a dedicated channel under the same care.
Most of our fish end up in private ponds, club waters, and small reservoirs. We make pond stocking deliveries by tank truck, matching temperature on arrival and netting the fish in by hand. A written count goes home with every load. From the bench to your bank, the fish ride in cool aerated water and are released by people who handle them every day.
We log water quality at fixed points along the run and keep an honest tally of what leaves the hatchery. Water quality monitoring and harvest and grading are services we offer because pond owners deserve a straight answer about what is in the water and what is in the net. No padded counts, no surprise losses.
Every order follows the same cold path down the raceway, whether it is a single load for a backyard pond or a season of fingerlings for a club.
Brood fish are spawned in house and eggs are set into incubation trays the same day, each lot tagged to a tray number.
Alevins absorb the yolk sac in the trays, then swim up into shallow troughs where they take their first feed.
Fry move into the long raceways, and a sorting grate keeps each channel at a uniform size as the fish put on length.
Fish are counted into aerated delivery tanks at the cool end of the day, with a paper count prepared before the truck rolls.
The crew matches temperature on arrival, nets the fish into your water by hand, and leaves you a signed count.
We check back on water quality and plan the next run so your pond keeps a healthy, balanced population.
Tell us the size of your pond, the species you want, and the month you plan to stock. We will match the order to a tray and hold your place on the delivery route.
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