As part of the state’s ongoing water quality monitoring, the NC DENR/Division of Water Quality samples fish populations accross the state. Since 1990 more than 875 sites across the state have been assessed by the wadeable stream fish community assessment … Read More
The Great Smoky Mountains are one of the last preserves of wild trout water in the deep south. Below, you see the park boundary (Green) and brook trout habitat quality as rated by the EBTVJ dataset. It’s clearly the best … Read More
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission lists several hundred stream segments as “Wild Trout Waters”. If you look at other data sets, it’s clear that this represents only a relatively small fraction of the total wild trout water in the … Read More
Available as an overlay on the NJ Web Map, or as a KMZ file from the download system. The list of Trout Production (“TP”) waters was first published in the NJDFW’s Coldwater Management Plan in 2005… Because of their high … Read More
Once, virtually the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts was home to brook trout. Today, they have been virtually extirpated from the greater Boston area. Other habitat is degraded, though there are a fair number of good brook trout streams in the … Read More
Massachusetts, unlike many states, does not seem to publish GIS data for water quality classifications. However we finally “cracked the code” and have been able to create maps which show cold water habitat (see the Coldwater Fish Resource link in … Read More
Based on the data developed by the WV DEP in the middle of the last decade, WV enjoys an amazing water resource. Streams marked in blue are the 640-odd streams (a few lakes aren’t plotted) recognized in the state’s submission … Read More
The geographic data which is available for download on this site for free must have originally cost $100’s of millions to assemble — possibly $billions. While some of it might have been gathered for other reasons, water quality regulation and … Read More
Maryland published its first, state-wide water quality classification based on “designated uses” in 2010. Of particular interest to us, cold water streams which are “suitable for the growth and propagation of trout” are classified as Class III or III-P. III-P … Read More
The Catskills region of New York state, along with its more northerly sister range, the Adirondacks, contain the oldest wilderness areas in the country (set aside in the late 19th century) and some of the most famous fly fishing streams … Read More