There’s relatively little trout water in Missouri, and very few streams (6 apparently) managed as Wild Trout Streams. The Missouri DNR rates 298 stream-miles within the state as “Cold Water Fishery” (1.2% of the state’s total streams), all of which … Read More
Photo: Nebraskaland Magazine, used with permission The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality designates 38 streams in the state as Class A Coldwater, defined as follows: These waters provide a habitat which supports natural reproduction of a salmonid (trout) population. These … Read More
About 8 years ago I went fishing with a buddy in Shenandoah National Park, on a stream that didn’t have a trail along its banks for several miles. It was April, the fishing was superb, and I was having a … Read More
Kentucky enjoys relatively little cold-water habitat suitable for trout, and even fewer streams that support self-reproducing populations of wild trout. Where they exist, they appear mostly to be in the eastern end of the state, along Pine Mountain, and in … Read More
Minnesota isn’t as well known as a trout fishing destination compared to neighboring states such as, say, Michigan, but she does support thousands of miles of wild trout streams. The image below illustrates the range of data which is available … Read More
Wisconsin isn’t as well known as a trout fishing destination compared to neighboring states such as, say, Michigan, but she does support thousands of miles of wild trout streams. The image below illustrates the range of data which is available … Read More
Iowa isn’t well known as a trout fishing destination, and compared to neighboring states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin, she doesn’t have a large number of wild trout streams. However, as Spencer Tracy famously said about Katherine Hepburn, “What she … Read More
Michigan is famous as a trout fishing “mecca” as well as being the state in which Trout Unlimited started. Michigan DNR lists roughly 20,000 miles of “trout water”, of which many contain wild, self-sustaining trout populations. The image below illustrates … Read More
WI DNR defines 3 classes of trout streams as defined below the image. For the wild trout angler, the principal interest will be Class 1, shown in cyan. Each class of stream is provided in a separate KMZ file, which … Read More
The Driftless Area spans parts of southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and northwestern Illinois. It is a distinct landscape in the Upper Mississippi River Basin that was left unglaciated during the last ice-age which ended 10,000 years ago (The … Read More