What is a trout stream? It seems like a straight-forward question, but since classification as a trout stream today carries a lot of restrictions for land-owners, it’s anything but. Check out this detail from the Upper New River basin (yellow) … Read More
Recently, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) joined the more enlightened states in publishing good quality GIS information on wild trout. Trout streams that support natural trout reproduction have descriptive data which describes the species which can … Read More
Recently, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) joined the more enlightened states in publishing good quality GIS information on wild trout. Trout streams that support natural trout reproduction are classified on a 4-level scale (defined below the … Read More
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) is one of the more enlightened states as it publishes good quality GIS information on wild trout. In November, 2014, we updated our offerings based on a new dataset (collected in … Read More
Virginia wild trout are found almost exclusively in the Appalachian Highlands (shown in pink). Shenandoah National Park is shown in red. A few other streams outside of the highlands area also support trout, marked in orange. Click on the highlands … Read More
The image on this page was taken from an out-of-print book, published in 1985, entitled The Inland Fishes of New York State. It is a comprehensive field guide for species identification, and includes a distribution map for each species. Since … Read More
Atlantic salmon live in the Connecticut River and its tributaries. Your cooperation is essential for their survival. Know the difference between trout and salmon. All salmon must be returned to the water. Young salmon (parr) resemble brown trout. Familiarize yourself … Read More
It took some doing, but this is the dataset we’ve hoped to provide for 7 years. The need for this website was first driven home to me when I was visiting my family in the Berkshires, and couldn’t find anyone … Read More
This website really started because I used to visit my dad at his condo in the Berkshires, and I couldn’t find any reliable information about where to fish for wild trout. The closest “fly shop” was the Orvis Store in … Read More
In 2006, we created a series of maps around the NHSP “Living Waters” dataset. Today, we can distribute the same dataset in Google Earth, so you can view it yourself at any resolution, and combine it with other information. Source … Read More