Explore Kansas winter trout water: the Type 1 and Type 2 waters KDWP stocks from December through March, from the Webster and Glen Elder tailwaters and the Kanopolis seep stream to Mined Land Wildlife Area, Lake Shawnee and city ponds, with estimated stockings.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Kansas's own data and can be out of date.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 Kansas trout permit and waters, 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 · Kansas
Bold where the stream crosses public land
KDWP lists its trout waters without coordinates; each is placed at KDWP’s fishing-atlas point, the dam above a stilling basin or outlet, a USGS place name, or the park. Not placed: Glen Elder State Park pond, Kings Lake (Emporia), Fort Riley Moon Lake, Kanopolis State Park pond, and Vic’s Lake and Slough Creek in Sedgwick County Park.
The trout season runs December 1 to March 31. On Type 1 waters every angler needs a trout permit then; on Type 2 waters only trout anglers do. 5 trout a day.
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.