Explore Maryland’s trout special management areas (put-and-take, catch-and-return, fly-fishing-only, delayed-harvest, trophy and youth waters) with each stream’s latest stocking, the state’s Class III cold-water streams, DNR land, angler access, boat ramps and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Maryland's own data and can be out of date.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 Maryland trout special management areas, and you need a valid fishing license.
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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
Trout areas are Maryland DNR’s special management areas, the lines on DNR’s angler map, each with its legal description from the fishing guide. Sections of one stream are listed together, so a stream can carry several categories.
Each stocked stream shows its most recent stocking from DNR’s stocking activity data: date, number of trout and species. A date years old means the stream hasn’t been stocked since.
DNR publishes its wild trout surveys only as watershed outlines, so the map draws the state’s Class III cold-water streams instead: reaches with the potential for self-sustaining trout under Maryland’s water use classes. It’s a water quality class, not a fish survey. Public land combines PAD-US with Maryland DNR’s own state parks, forests and wildlife management areas.
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.