Explore Oklahoma’s designated trout areas: the year-round Lower Mountain Fork below Broken Bow Dam and Lower Illinois below Tenkiller Dam, the winter trout areas on the Blue River, at Robbers Cave and on Medicine Creek, and the urban trout ponds, with public land, access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Oklahoma's own data and can be out of date.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 Oklahoma trout 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 · Oklahoma
Bold where the stream crosses public land
ODWC describes its trout areas in words, not as a map layer. Each is drawn on the USGS 3D Hydrography channel between the dam, bridge or boundary ODWC names, checked against the National Inventory of Dams, the National Bridge Inventory, USGS gauges and ODWC’s area boundaries.
The Lower Mountain Fork is drawn as one line from Broken Bow Dam to US 70. ODWC splits it at the Old State Park Dam into Area 1 and Area 2 with different limits; that dam isn’t in public map data, so use ODWC’s Lower Mountain Fork map for the split. The Lower Illinois special-regulation stretches below the USGS gauge are described in its details. Medicine Creek’s line starts at Lake Lawtonka’s dam, a little above the Gondola Lake dam where the trout area begins.
Winter trout areas are stocked from November into March. Urban ponds are points at ODWC’s listed address or the lake’s Census outline; Route 66 Park in Oklahoma City and the Lake Carl Blackwell Turtle Pond aren’t placed yet. Check the current trout 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.