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Trout fishing near Two Rivers, Wisconsin

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

WDNR classifies 24 named streams as trout water within 40 miles of Two Rivers, Wisconsin — 81.5 miles of it inside that circle. The most of it is East Twin River, 15.9 miles out, with 14.8 classified miles that WDNR classifies Class II. The closest is Jambo Creek at 8 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 Two Rivers

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
East Twin River 15.9 14.8 Class II small stream 100% cold
LaBudde Creek 27.8 6.9 Class I creek 100% cold
Mullet River 32.8 6.1 Class II medium stream 100% cold
Ben Nutt Creek 35.2 5.1 Class I small stream 100% cold
Jambo Creek 8 5 Class II small stream 100% cold
Onion River 36.9 4.9 Class I small stream 100% cold
Stony Brook 33.1 4.4 Class III small stream 100% cool
Gilson Creek 32.7 3.9 Class I creek 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 Two Rivers, 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.

Thermometers in range

USGS gauges within 40 miles that report water temperature, nearest first. Federal rather than the state's, so one may stand across a state line. No reading is printed here — this page is about where the water is, and a temperature on it would be true only of the minute it was built. The river pages carry the live numbers.

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