Explore Arizona’s trout streams by species — native Apache and Gila trout, rainbow, brown and brook trout — with wild-trout and catch-and-release water, Lees Ferry on the Colorado, each stream’s special regulations, public land and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Arizona's own data and can be out of date. Posted signs and landowners' wishes come first, and private land needs permission. The rules that apply are in the Arizona fishing regulations, and you need a valid fishing license.
Bold where the stream crosses public land; faint and dashed across private land. Gauges are measurement stations; a nearby gauge may be on a different stream.
Stream types · Arizona
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Streams come from Arizona Game and Fish’s Trout Challenge layers, one per species: the fishable trout streams, whether their trout are wild, and the special regulation for each stream or section in AZGFD’s words. A stream holding several species shows them all. Lakes are left out.
Most of Arizona’s trout water is in national forests and on tribal land. Fishing on White Mountain Apache and San Carlos Apache land needs a tribal permit, not a state license. Big rivers like the Colorado can show less public water here than they have, because the channel is wider than the bank allowance used to match it to park land.
Highlighted banks adjoin mapped open-access public land, with a roughly 20-meter bank tolerance. Dimmed water has no adjacent open-access parcel recorded in this source. Neither determines legal entry, rights of way or permission to cross private land. Check signs, property rules and the current fishing regulations.
Access markers are source facility locations within about 800 meters of mapped water, not verified parking spaces or guaranteed entry to a particular reach. River-gauge readings describe the gauged location; a nearby gauge on another stream is shown as context.