Explore Indiana’s steelhead and trout water: the Lake Michigan tributaries (the St. Joseph River below Twin Branch Dam, Trail Creek, the East Branch Little Calumet and Salt Creek) with this year’s steelhead and salmon stockings, IDNR’s stocked trout streams such as the Pigeon River, Little Elkhart and Turkey Creek, and the lakes, ponds and tailwaters stocked with trout, with public access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Indiana's own data and can be out of date.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 Indiana 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 · Indiana
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Steelhead and salmon tributaries are IDNR’s salmonid waters on the Lake Michigan streams (main stems only), with IDNR’s steelhead, coho and Chinook stockings for the year from the Great Lakes stocking database. The St. Joseph River, Trail Creek and the Little Calumet have closures near dams, ladders and the lamprey barrier; they’re in each river’s details.
Inland streams are the ones in IDNR’s current trout stocking plan, drawn from IDNR’s put-and-take trout water for each stream; the Mississinewa and Big Blue are limited to Randolph County WMA and Wilbur Wright FWA. Stream trout season opens on the last Saturday in April. The Little Elkhart, Solomon and Cobus creeks have year-round catch-and-release sections, described in their details.
Lakes, ponds and the Brookville and Harden tailwaters are points from IDNR’s plan (spring and fall numbers are targets). Not placed: Cedar Creek (Allen), Wildcat Creek (Howard), Fairfield Pit NE, Morsches Park and Memorial Park Pond. Check the current regulations before fishing.
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.