Explore North Dakota’s trout and salmon water: the Garrison Dam tailrace on the Missouri River, home of the state records, Lake Sakakawea’s Chinook salmon, and the lakes, ponds and streams North Dakota Game and Fish stocks with rainbow, brown, cutthroat and tiger trout, with boat ramps and piers.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from North Dakota's own data and can be out of date.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 North Dakota 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 · North Dakota
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Every water here was stocked with trout or salmon by NDGF in the last two years, with numbers and the last stocking date from NDGF’s stocking records and the biologist’s current notes on the fishery.
Trout: 3 a day (6 in possession), all species together; salmon 5 a day. Waters are open all year except posted areas near Garrison Dam. Brook trout aren’t a legal game fish in North Dakota.
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.