Explore South Carolina’s mountain trout water: the Chattooga’s wild, stocked and delayed-harvest sections, the Chauga, Eastatoe, Saluda forks and other SCDNR trout streams, the Lake Murray tailrace, and the state’s trout water classes, with public land, access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from South Carolina's own data and can be out of date.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 South Carolina trout regulations, 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.
Stream types · South Carolina
Bold where the stream crosses public land
SCDNR publishes no map layer of its trout streams, so three official sources are combined. Streams with SCDNR trout access sites are drawn from their uppermost to their lowest trout access site. The Chattooga’s sections and the Lake Murray tailrace follow SCDNR’s South Carolina Trout Fishing guide. All lines are traced on USGS 3D Hydrography channels.
The state trout water classes are South Carolina’s water-quality classifications: put-grow-and-take water and natural trout water. They mark streams cold enough for trout, not fishing regulations, and only named stream reaches are shown. The Chattooga is the Georgia line; Georgia’s map shows it too.
Delayed-harvest and other special rules change: check the current South Carolina 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.