Explore Hawaii’s only trout water, the Kōkeʻe Public Fishing Area on Kauaʻi: Puʻu Lua Reservoir, stocked each January and the source of most of the catch, and the eight upland streams the fishing area covers, with the season and rules.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Hawaii's own data and can be out of date.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 DAR Kōkeʻe Public Fishing Area, 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.
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Bold where the stream crosses public land
The fishing area’s limits are published only as a map image, so the streams are DAR’s stream lines with the names in the rule (HAR 13-64), kept within Kōkeʻe State Park and the neighboring forest reserves. Fishing is not allowed in Kōkeʻe Stream above Camp Sloggett.
DLNR announces the trout season each year (2026: June 20 to September 30). Every trout caught counts toward the 7-fish limit; there is no catch and release. Check in and out at the check stations.
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.