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Trout fishing near Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Last updated 2026-09-24 · water classified by WDNR

WDNR classifies 24 named streams as trout water within 40 miles of Sheboygan, Wisconsin — 83.7 miles of it inside that circle. The most of it is Auburn Lake Creek, 23.9 miles out, with 7 classified miles that WDNR classifies Class II. The closest is Onion River at 11.6 miles. A classification is WDNR's statement about the water, not a record of a fish in it and not permission to stand on the bank — check access and the current regulations before you go.

The trout water within 40 miles of Sheboygan

Ranked by how much classified water lies inside the circle, and by nothing else. Distance is a straight line to the nearest point of the stream rather than to its middle, because the question is how far you drive before you can park — this app carries no road network and will not print a drive time it cannot compute. A stream that runs out of the circle is counted for the part that is inside it, never for its whole length.

Stream Miles out Classified miles WDNR class Size Thermal class
Auburn Lake Creek 23.9 7 Class II creek 100% cold
LaBudde Creek 13.8 6.9 Class I creek 100% cold
Mullet River 12.6 6.2 Class II medium stream 100% cold
North Branch Milwaukee River 14.4 5.8 Class I small stream 100% cold
Ben Nutt Creek 13.9 5.1 Class I small stream 100% cold
Jambo Creek 35.8 5 Class II small stream 100% cold
Onion River 11.6 5 Class I small stream 100% cold
Watercress Creek 18.9 5 Class II small stream 100% cold

24 named streams clear the circle in all and the 8 holding the most classified water are named. The rest carry less water than something a reader would pass on the way to it.

A stream marked part of the stream carries classified water outside the circle too, and the mileage here is only what is inside it. The thermal class is published by WDNR, and it describes the reaches inside the circle rather than the whole stream.

What WDNR is saying, and what it is not

Every row above is on the list because Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources publishes a trout classification — Class I, II or III — per segment. That is WDNR saying it classifies and manages the segment as trout water, and which of the three classes it puts it in. It is not a record of a fish caught there, it is not a promise about any particular day, and it is not permission to walk to the bank — the land beside a classified stream can be private, and in most of these five states most of it is.

No species are named on this page. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources classifies the water and does not publish which trout a segment holds, and this site will not put a fish in a named creek on its own authority. The classes above are what the state does say.

Getting to the water

This site has built access pages in Wisconsin and none of them stands within 40 miles of Sheboygan, so this page names none. Check WDNR for access, and read the boundary of any land you cross — a stream being classified says nothing about who owns the bank.

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