Waters We Haven’t Covered
Not seeing a water? Either we haven’t gotten to it yet, or it’s below with the reason. These are the 176 waters we looked at and didn’t cover.
- Not yet
- The water’s fine; the gauge data or sources aren’t there yet.
- Won’t
- Not trout water, no public access, impaired water, or the gauge belongs to a different stream.
- Case by case
- The note says why.
Pennsylvania (77)
Antes Creek
Not yetDead gauge, and no trout-fishing sourcing beyond its karst geology; still too thin after the 2026-09-02 policy change.
Bear Creek (Schuylkill County)
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Beech Creek
Won’tLower half is described as essentially lifeless from acid mine drainage, and the only live gauge sits in that dead reach.
Big Cove Creek
Not yetNo gauge exists.
Big Sewickley Creek
Not yetReal PFBC-stocked water; no active gauge.
Big Spring Run
Not yetLive gauge, but no trout designation.
Brady's Run
Not yetReal PFBC-stocked water; no active gauge.
Briar Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Buffalo Creek
Not yetSubstantial PFBC-stocked trout stream, but gauge 03048900 sits downstream of Boggsville, the end of the stocked reach.
Carbaugh Run
Not yetNo gauge exists.
Catawissa Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Chartiers Creek
Won’tWarmwater main stem (reconfirmed 2026-09-02); the separate trout water, Little Chartiers Creek, was added instead.
Chillisquaque Creek
Won’tConfirmed warmwater.
Chiques Creek
Not yetLive gauge, but no trout designation.
Choconut Creek
Won’tLive gauge, but DEP's Chapter 93 list designates the whole basin Warm Water Fishes (reconfirmed 2026-09-02).
Clark Creek
Not yetReal trout designation, no gauge.
Conestoga River
Won’tUrban warmwater river.
Connoquenessing Creek
Not yetPFBC stocks a section near Renfrew, but the only live gauge (Zelienople) sits in the documented smallmouth water.
Conococheague Creek (Chambersburg)
Not yetDead gauge; Franklin County has no live streamflow or temperature gauge anywhere. Not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Conodoguinet Creek
Won’tMain stem between Carlisle and Harrisburg is smallmouth and panfish water; its trout tributaries are Letort Spring Run and Big Spring Creek.
Crooked Creek (Armstrong County)
Won’tCrooked Creek Lake is a largemouth bass and crappie fishery, not trout.
Cross Fork Creek
Not yetNo dedicated USGS gauge exists at all, the same gap as Slate Run.
East Branch Antietam Creek
Not yetNo gauge exists.
East Mahantango Creek
Not yetDalmatia gauge is live, but trout live only in tributaries and the main stem is smallmouth water (reconfirmed 2026-09-02).
Elk Creek (Erie County)
Not yetLake Erie steelhead tributary; its 2019 USGS site is a partial-record or crest-stage station that returned no values, not a continuous live gauge.
Frankstown Branch Juniata River
Not yetA 2007 PFBC survey shows only the headwater reach near Claysburg is trout-stocked; the live gauge (Williamsburg) sits downstream in warmwater-managed water.
Harveys Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Hunlock Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Kitchen Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Little Conestoga Creek
Won’tUrban warmwater stream.
Little Fishing Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Little Tonoloway Creek
Not yetNo gauge exists.
Locust Creek
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Lorberry Creek
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Mahoning Creek (Indiana, Jefferson and Armstrong Counties)
Won’tMain stem is described as coolwater with managed trout water in its tributaries; the short dam-cooled tailwater reach was later added separately as Mahoning Creek, Dam Tailwater.
Mahoning Creek (Montour and Columbia Counties)
Not yetReal PFBC trout designation on a 10.6-mile creek unrelated to the other PA Mahoning Creeks, but no USGS gauge exists on it.
Manada Creek
Not yetReal trout designation, no gauge.
Mehoopany Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Mill Creek (Port Carbon)
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Muddy Creek (Butler County)
Won’tSmallmouth-characterized tributary feeding Lake Arthur and not on Butler County's PFBC trout-stocking list.
Nanticoke Creek (Wilkes-Barre area)
Not yetNamed as part of the Nanticoke and Toby Creek cluster near Wilkes-Barre; no currently reporting gauge. Not the Broome County, NY Nanticoke Creek.
Neshannock Creek
Case by caseLive gauges and a famous Delayed Harvest section, but in Lawrence County, outside that pass's assigned counties; not rejected for cause.
North Branch Mehoopany Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
North Branch Sugar Creek
Not yetThe nearby live gauge is on an unnamed tributary roughly 3.7 miles from the creek's own stocked reach, so it would misattribute another stream's data.
North Branch Towanda Creek
Won’tLive flow and temperature gauge and a paper Cold Water Fishes designation, but a 2007 PFBC survey found one incidental hatchery trout and mostly stagnant summer pools.
Panther Creek
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Paxton Creek
Not yetLive urban gauges, but no confirmed trout designation.
Pequea Creek
Case by caseNarrow stocked reach with unconfirmed gauge position against it, and the water is independently described as mostly posted.
Pine Creek (Allegheny County, Etna)
Not yetGauge 03049807 reports gage height only, with no discharge or temperature; the file was removed before shipping.
Pine Creek (Barnesville)
Not yetDead gauge; not added in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Raccoon Creek
Not yetMain stem through Raccoon Creek State Park is a bass and catfish fishery; the stocked trout water is Traverse Creek, a separate tributary.
Raystown Branch Juniata River
Not yetOnly live gauge (Saxton) sits in a stretch described as smallmouth water; the gauge nearer the trout reach (Wolfsburg) is dead.
Roaring Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Schrader Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Shamokin Creek
Won’tAll three candidate sites are dead, and DEP lists it impaired for AMD metals and officially a Warm Water Fishery.
Shickshinny Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
Slate Run
Not yetPine Creek's famous tributary has no dedicated USGS gauge; its character and regulations are documented inside the Pine Creek entry instead.
Solomon Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
South Branch Tunkhannock Creek
Not yetChecked against the live endpoint; no currently reporting gauge.
South Fork Tenmile Creek
Won’tLive gauge, but a smallmouth, drum and catfish fishery with no trout designation.
Spruce Creek
Won’tThe USGS site named "Little Juniata River at Spruce Creek" gauges the Little Juniata River, which was documented instead; Spruce Creek itself has no gauge and is largely private water.
Stony Creek (Dauphin County)
Not yetReal trout designation, no gauge.
Sugar Creek (Bradford County)
Not yetStocked from the South Branch confluence to Tomjack Creek; the only live gauge (West Burlington) is downstream in a Warm Water Fishes reach.
Swatara Creek
Won’tMain stem at Pine Grove and Suedberg is warmwater smallmouth and panfish water; trout water is confined to small ungauged tributaries.
Swift Run (Adams County)
Won’tNot PFBC-regulated, and the live temperature read 80°F.
Toby Creek
Not yetNamed as part of the Nanticoke and Toby Creek cluster near Wilkes-Barre; no currently reporting gauge.
Tonoloway Creek
Won’tLive gauge, but a documented carp, muskellunge and smallmouth fishery.
Tunkhannock Creek (Susquehanna basin)
Not yetThe 42.3-mile Susquehanna-basin creek, unrelated to the Poconos Tunkhannock Creek in the KB; its only gauge is in smallmouth water near the Susquehanna, and trout fishing is on ungauged tributaries.
Turtle Creek
Not yetLive gauge at Wilmerding, but the PFBC trout reach ends upstream at Trafford, past the gauge.
Two Lick Creek
Not yetCelebrated 7.8-mile wild-trout fishery, but gauge 03042500 at Graceton is below the Yellow Creek confluence where the cold-water characteristics end; site 03042505 returns no values.
Walnut Creek (Erie County)
Not yetLake Erie steelhead tributary; its 2019 USGS site is a partial-record or crest-stage station that returned no values, not a continuous live gauge.
West Branch Octoraro Creek
Not yetReal Delayed Harvest water, but the gauge sits below the lake outflow.
West Conewago Creek
Not yetGenuinely mixed fishery with the gauge position ambiguous relative to the trout and bass boundary.
Wiconisco Creek
Not yetReal trout designation, no gauge.
Wills Creek
Won’tMixed rainbow, smallmouth and channel catfish at the gauge with no confirmed trout designation; the better trout water, Little Wills Creek, is a separate ungauged stream.
Wyalusing Creek
Not yetSite 01532940 (Camptown) is new and reports gage height only; the 2026-09-02 pass found PFBC stocks only the East and North Branch tributaries, not the main stem at the gauge.
Yellow Creek (Indiana County)
Not yetTrout stocking is in tributaries above Yellow Creek Lake; the only live gauge sits downstream of the dam.
New York (28)
Allegheny River (New York reach near Olean and Salamanca)
Won’tNYSDEC's warmwater rivers page for western New York lists it.
Bennett Creek
Not yetDEC-stocked; no gauge.
Black Creek (Churchville)
Won’tLive gauge, but a mixed warmwater bass and pike fishery rather than trout water.
Butternut Creek
Not yetReal wild and stocked brown trout water; its candidate gauge at Morris reports zero live values.
Canaseraga Creek
Not yetNo usable gauge found.
Cassadaga Creek
Not yetNo usable gauge found; trout and warmwater reports are mixed.
Catatonk Creek
Not yetDEC-stocked; no gauge.
Charlotte Creek
Not yetDEC's current stocking table confirms trout stocking at Davenport, but no live USGS gauge exists.
Chenango River
Not yetFirst set aside as smallmouth-leaning; the 2026-08-28 pass found all three live gauges downstream of Sherburne, while the upper reach near Morrisville (brown trout per NYSDEC) is ungauged.
Conewango Creek
Won’tNYSDEC describes it as a warmwater fishery start to finish.
Delaware River (main stem below Hancock)
Not yetNo continuous NY-side gauge exists below the East and West Branch confluence; the two branches are documented separately against their own tailwater gauges.
East Branch Nanticoke Creek
Not yetDEC-stocked; no gauge.
Elk Brook
Not yetOn DEC's current stocking list; no gauge.
Five Mile Creek (Cohocton River tributary)
Not yetReported to hold wild brook trout; its gauge near Kanona exists but reports zero live values.
French Creek (New York headwaters)
Not yetNo usable gauge found; if added, it would collide in name with the covered French Creek in Chester County, PA, a wholly unrelated river.
Genegantslet Creek
Not yetDEC-stocked; no gauge.
Genesee River (Rochester, Ford Street Bridge)
Not yetGauge 04231600 is live but sits above the Upper (High) Falls, while the lake-run steelhead and salmon fishery runs from the mouth to the Lower Falls.
Grasse River
Not yetRemote and under-documented; no gauge exists at all (reconfirmed in the second NY pass).
Little Salmon River (Lake Ontario mouth)
Not yetDead gauge near Texas in Oswego County; distinct from the Franklin County Little Salmon River that is covered.
Nanticoke Creek (Broome County)
Not yetDEC-stocked; no gauge. Not the Wilkes-Barre area Nanticoke Creek in Pennsylvania.
Naples Creek
Not yetNo usable gauge found.
Otego Creek
Not yetOn DEC's current stocking list; no gauge.
Schenevus Creek
Not yetOn DEC's current stocking list; no gauge.
Silver Creek (Chautauqua County)
Not yetVerified as a legitimate candidate with a live gauge, but cut for batch-size scope rather than rejected for cause; a reasonable pick for a follow-up pass.
Tioga River
Won’tOnly live gauges sit on a smallmouth, walleye and muskellunge main stem; the trout stocking in this drainage belongs to the Canisteo River.
Tuscarora Creek (Steuben County)
Won’tLive gauge, but the Susquehanna River Basin Commission classes it plain Class C, without the (T) or (TS) trout suffix. Not the covered Tuscarora Creek in Pennsylvania.
Unadilla River
Not yetOnly live gauge (Rockdale) sits downstream of New Berlin, already in the warmwater-leaning reach per NYSDEC.
Wharton Creek
Not yetOn DEC's current stocking list; no gauge.
Virginia (58)
Abrams Creek
Won’tGauge returned zero live values; the 2026-09-02 pass found no trout evidence and a smallmouth and panfish fishery.
Back Creek (Swoope)
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass; a different water from the covered Back Creek in Bath County.
Battle Run
Not yetLive gauge, but no source confirms it as trout water.
Beaver Creek (Ottobine)
Not yetGauge exists but returned zero live values; not among the 2026-09-02 reopening candidates.
Beaverdam Creek (Loudoun)
Won’tPiedmont creek, not coldwater; Loudoun County has no DWR-designated trout waters.
Big Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a Shenandoah National Park stream.
Big Stony Creek
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Big Wilson Creek
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Blacks Run
Won’tUrban stream confirmed impaired by DEQ for bacteria and sediment, with no trout evidence.
Broad Run (Loudoun)
Won’tLive gauge, but Loudoun County has no designated stocked-trout waters in the 2026 state plan.
Buckhorn Creek
Not yetBoth gauge sites returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Catoctin Creek (Virginia)
Won’tLive gauge, but Loudoun County has zero DWR-designated trout waters; both forks are piedmont streams, not coldwater.
Cedar Creek (Winchester)
Won’tAlmost entirely posted or closed to public access per a dedicated angler-reconnaissance source.
Cedar Run (near Winchester)
Won’tPrivate or club water.
Christians Creek
Won’tGauge returned zero live values; the 2026-09-02 pass found no trout evidence and a smallmouth and panfish fishery.
Conway River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Cowpasture River
Not yetLive gauge sits in the smallmouth-dominant reach; the real trout water is upstream and ungauged.
Cub Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Dan River (Talbott Dam tailwater)
Not yetHas a real 6-mile permit-only trout tailwater, but every gauge found sits far downstream in warmwater Danville-area water.
Doyles River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Eidson Creek
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Fox Creek (Trout Dale)
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Garth Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
German River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Goose Creek (Loudoun)
Won’tLive gauge, but Loudoun County has zero DWR-designated trout waters; the 2026-08-28 pass notes its trout section is private.
Guest River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Happy Creek
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Hawksbill Creek
Not yetListed as ungauged in this pass; the 2026-08-28 pass found it is a Class A wild trout stream whose only gauges are dead.
Hughes River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a Shenandoah National Park headwater stream.
Jeremys Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a Shenandoah National Park stream.
Linville Creek
Won’tLive gauge, but no trout designation found in DWR's reach dataset despite limestone-creek character.
Long Glade Creek
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Meadow Run (Crimora)
Won’tHas a DWR Class II wild brook trout designation, but a dedicated trip report says there is no public access from the valley floor.
Middle River (Augusta)
Case by caseA river conservancy documents a failed brook trout stocking attempt.
Mill Creek (Luray)
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Mill Creek (Shenandoah County)
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; not the Mill Creek near Luray.
Mountain Run (Culpeper)
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
Muddy Creek (Mount Clinton)
Won’tLive gauge, but absent from DWR's authoritative trout reach dataset.
Naked Creek
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
North Fork Goose Creek
Won’tPiedmont creek, not coldwater; Loudoun County has no DWR-designated trout waters.
North Fork Holston River
Not yetDWR describes it as exceptional smallmouth water from Saltville downstream, where the live gauge sits.
North Fork Shenandoah River
Not yetDWR describes the whole river as smallmouth, muskie, walleye and catfish water; the 2026-08-28 pass found the upper stocked reaches near Bergton have no live gauge nearby and the only live gauge (Cootes Store) is far downstream.
Overall Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a Shenandoah National Park stream.
Peters Mill Creek
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Piney Run (Loudoun)
Won’tPiedmont creek, not coldwater; Loudoun County has no DWR-designated trout waters.
Redbud Run
Not yetClass III wild trout stream whose only gauge is dead.
Rose River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a Shenandoah National Park headwater stream.
Rush River
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
South Fork Shenandoah River
Won’tDWR describes the river as smallmouth, muskie, walleye and catfish water.
South River (Greene County, Stanardsville)
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a different water from the covered South River at Waynesboro.
Stony Creek (Shenandoah County)
Not yetListed as ungauged in this pass; the 2026-08-28 pass found a gauge whose record stopped in 2016.
Swift Run (Virginia)
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists.
Thornton River (including North Fork)
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists on the river or its North Fork.
Thorny Branch
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass.
White Oak Canyon Run
Not yetNo USGS gauge exists; a different water from White Oak Run at Grottoes.
White Oak Run (Grottoes)
Not yetGauge returned zero live values, and no current trout designation could be confirmed in the 2026-09-02 reopening pass; a different water from White Oak Canyon Run.
Whitetop Laurel Creek
Not yetWidely regarded as one of Virginia's best wild trout streams, but no live gauge exists.
Wolf Creek near Narrows
Not yetGauge sits at the New River mouth, not at the Burkes Garden headwater trout water.
New Hampshire (1)
Piscataquog River (below Everett Dam)
Not yetGauge 01090800 (below Everett Dam, near East Weare) is live (flow only). No source read names trout stocking or a trout fishery on this main-stem reach below the Army Corps flood-control dam, and no release schedule was found. The South Branch is covered instead.
Connecticut (2)
Hubbard River
Not yetGauge 01187300 (near West Hartland) is live (flow) and sits just inside Connecticut. The river heads in Massachusetts, where MassWildlife lists a Granville reach as stocked, but the Connecticut stretch ending at Barkhamsted Reservoir does not appear on the state's stocking-map index, Wild Trout Management Area lists or River and Stream Regulations page, and no source naming trout at the gauge was found.
Tenmile River (Bulls Bridge)
Not yetThe only USGS site on the river, 01200000 (near Gaylordsville, live flow), is recorded in Dutchess County, New York (Dover Plains quad), upstream of the Connecticut trout management area at the Housatonic confluence. The 01196100 site named in the issue is a different river in Southington. The Tenmile trout water is mentioned in the Housatonic Bulls Bridge entry.
Vermont (10)
Little Otter Creek
Not yetGauge 04282650 (Ferrisburg) is live (flow) but sits near the lake; a state management area document says the lower reaches of the Otter Creek system hold warmwater species, and no trout source for Little Otter Creek itself was found (substitute for Missisquoi).
Missisquoi River (upper)
Not yetGauges 04293000 (near North Troy) and 04293500 (near East Berkshire) are live (flow). The state's trophy-trout reach runs from the Kane Road bridge in Sheldon up to the Enosburg Falls Dam, downstream of both gauges; no source naming trout in the North Troy or East Berkshire reach was found.
Moose River (Vermont)
Not yetGauge 01134500 (at Victory) is live (flow) but is in remote Essex County, many miles upstream of the state's trophy-trout reach at the mouth in St. Johnsbury (confluence up to the Concord Avenue bridge). No source naming trout at Victory was found.
Ottauquechee River (lower, North Hartland and Quechee)
Not yetGauge 01151500 is live but sits below Quechee and the North Hartland dam; the only stocking found (2025) ends at Quechee, so no lower trout section was claimed.
Otter Creek (Vermont)
Not yetGauges 04282000 (Center Rutland) and 04282500 (Middlebury) are live (flow). The state's trophy-trout stocking reach is in Danby and Mount Tabor, many miles upstream of both, and a fly-shop profile describes the lower creek as mixed warmwater and coldwater with trout mainly below dams and at cold tributaries, so neither gauge was shown to sit in a trout reach.
Passumpsic River (main stem)
Not yetGauge 01135500 (at Passumpsic, Barnet) is live (flow). The state's trophy-trout reach is in St. Johnsbury, from Gage Dam up to Arnold Falls Dam, upstream of the gauge, and no source naming trout at the gauge was found. The East Branch shipped as its own entry.
Poultney River
Not yetGauge 04280000 is live (flow), but no state stocking or regulation source was found; the only trout mention was a guide listing of wild trout running up from Lake Champlain, and the gauge reach was not confirmed as trout water.
Saxtons River
Not yetGauge 01154000 is historical (discharge ended 2023-03). No Vermont Fish & Wildlife stocking, regulation or wild-trout source was found for the river; the only trout mention was a June 2026 community fishing event.
Third Branch White River
Not yetSite 435533072392701 exists but has no flow or temperature series. A 2025 magazine article names the branch only as a place in the White River watershed (Randolph and Bethel); no trout source for the branch itself was found (substitute for the upper Winooski).
Winooski River (upper, Marshfield to Montpelier)
Not yetGauges 04286000 (Montpelier) and 04282886 (Lower Cabot) are live flow. No readable state source was found for trout in this reach (the Streambank Management Area PDF was not machine-readable); the state's trophy-trout stocking reach is Bolton Dam to the Route 2 bridge east of Waterbury, well downstream of both gauges.
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