Explore West Virginia’s stocked trout streams and its catch-and-release, fly-fishing-only and delayed-harvest water, with WVDNR stocking schedules, wild trout streams, public land, fishing access and river gauges.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from West Virginia's own data and can be out of date.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 WVDNR fishing 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 · West Virginia
Bold where the stream crosses public land
Stocked streams and special-regulation sections come from WVDNR’s stocked trout streams layer, the one behind the WV Hunting & Fishing map. Each section shows its regulation, the stretch that is stocked and how often it is stocked. Sections of one stream are listed together. WVDNR notes that the published fishing regulations take precedence.
Wild trout are reaches where WVDNR verified trout presence (its 2020 trout distribution, mapped on medium-resolution NHD lines). They show presence, not abundance, and only named streams are listed.
WVDNR posts stocking as a daily list without fish counts, so the map shows each stream’s stocking schedule rather than numbers. Lakes are left out. The North Branch Potomac is managed under Maryland regulations.
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.