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Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

510,983 acres of public ground in Transylvania, McDowell, Haywood, Caldwell counties, managed by US Forest Service. 675 named streams run through it, of which 643 are designated trout water — 1447.2 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.

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Map key
This unit — the ground this page is about
Other public land — state, federal and county ground around it
USGS gauge — a gauge, coloured by what it reads now
Water temperature — the colour of every stream on this ground

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is NC Wildlife Resources Commission's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water NC Wildlife Resources Commission has not typed.

The unit in numbers

Assembled from the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.

510,983 ac
public ground
798.4 square miles · 111 separate blocks
US Forest Service
managing agency
National forest
675
named streams on it
2413.2 miles · 643 designated trout
Open access
public access
as recorded in the ownership file

Getting on it

Open to the public without a permit, as PAD-US records it. State licence and season rules still apply.

This unit is 111 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are USDA Forest Service's to say.

Trout streams on this ground

Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 404 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is NC Wildlife Resources Commission's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream Miles Class Now Designation
French Broad River 63.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Catawba River 58.4 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Special Regulation Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Pigeon River 45.4 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Linville River 44.9 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Johns River 41.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Laurel Creek 35.0 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
South Toe River 33.2 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Elk River 29.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
South Fork Mills River 26.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wilson Creek 24.8 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Spring Creek 23.5 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Catawba River 23.1 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Long Branch 21.3 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
West Fork Pigeon River 19.7 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
East Fork Pigeon River 19.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Nolichucky River 17.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Upper Creek 16.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shelton Laurel Creek 16.1 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Mulberry Creek 15.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Creek 15.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Rock Creek 15.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Big Crabtree Creek 15.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Buck Creek 14.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork French Broad River 13.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Irish Creek 13.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Roses Creek 13.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Davidson River 13.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Bradley Creek 13.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
West Fork French Broad River 13.0 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Clear Creek 12.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Curtis Creek 12.8 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Shoal Creek 12.4 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Armstrong Creek 12.0 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Steels Creek 11.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Whiteoak Creek 11.7 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Avery Creek 11.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Meadow Fork 11.3 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Big Creek 10.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mill Creek 10.4 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Little Creek 10.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lost Cove Creek 9.9 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Gragg Prong 9.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Branch 9.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Long Branch 9.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Laurel Creek 9.3 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Harper Creek 9.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Toms Creek 8.4 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Roaring Fork 8.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Mill Creek 8.1 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Spivey Creek 7.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
King Creek 7.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little East Fork Pigeon River 7.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Catheys Creek 7.4 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Flat Creek 7.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cataloochee Creek 7.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Ivy Creek 7.3 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Paddy Creek 7.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pigeonroost Creek 7.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Looking Glass Creek 7.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Walker Branch 7.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Foster Creek 7.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mackey Creek 7.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bent Creek 7.0 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Branch 6.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beaverdam Creek 6.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Fork 6.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Jarrett Creek 6.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Stony Fork 6.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Branch 6.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Anthony Creek 6.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Glady Fork 6.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Creek 6.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Creek 6.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Russell Creek 6.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cold Springs Creek 6.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Hurricane Creek 6.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Mills River 6.2 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters
North Harper Creek 6.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bowlens Creek 6.0 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Hollow Poplar Creek 6.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wolf Branch 5.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bear Branch 5.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Leatherwood Branch 5.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Puncheon Fork 5.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Simpson Creek 5.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mount Sterling Creek 5.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Thunderhole Creek 5.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rockhouse Creek 5.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cane Creek 5.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Honeycutt Creek 5.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Branch 5.4 untyped — —
Parks Creek 5.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Grass Creek 5.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Roaring Creek 5.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shut-In Creek 5.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Pisgah Creek 5.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Puncheon Camp Branch 5.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bearpen Branch 4.9 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Big Branch 4.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tucker Creek 4.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fall Branch 4.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Shope Creek 4.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bee Branch 4.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cantrell Creek 4.7 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Chestnut Creek 4.6 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Parker Creek 4.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bill Moore Creek 4.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cedar Rock Creek 4.5 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Cherryfield Creek 4.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Dales Creek 4.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wash Creek 4.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lamb Creek 4.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Murray Branch 4.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shelton Branch 4.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ayles Creek 4.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Franklin Branch 4.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Creek 4.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Buck Creek 4.3 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Chestnut Branch 4.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Crawford Creek 4.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Kuykendall Creek 4.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Stillhouse Branch 4.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Roaring Fork 4.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Spring Creek 4.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dunns Creek 4.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Creek 4.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Horse Creek 4.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rock Branch 4.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Creek 3.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Broad Branch 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Brown Creek 3.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Calvin Creek 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dismal Creek 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
East Prong Hickey Fork 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Limekiln Creek 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Middle Prong West Fork Pigeon River 3.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ballard Creek 3.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Carter Creek 3.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Craig Creek 3.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lenoir Creek 3.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Fork 3.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Swannanoa Creek 3.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cold Water Creek 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Doe Branch 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mineral Creek 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sam Branch 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Seniard Creek 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Slate Rock Creek 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
White Creek 3.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Carroll Creek 3.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Courthouse Creek 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cove Creek 3.5 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Diamond Creek 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fletcher Creek 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gingercake Creek 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rush Branch 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Silver Mine Creek 3.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Back Creek 3.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Blood River 3.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Boone Fork 3.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Elk Creek 3.4 untyped — —
Stack Rock Creek 3.4 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Larkins Estes Mill Creek 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Hurricane Creek 3.3 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Ox Creek 3.3 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Pounding Mill Branch 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rocky Branch 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shooks Creek 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
South Prong Turkey Creek 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Yellow Fork 3.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Hurricane Creek 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Davis Branch 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dry Branch 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Greasy Branch 3.2 untyped — —
Middle Creek 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Morgan Mill Creek 3.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Newberry Creek 3.2 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Panther Branch 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Fork Beans Creek 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rock Creek 3.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bee Rock Creek 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bucks Timber Creek 3.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Clark Branch 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Corner Rock Creek 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Horse Creek 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pearcey Creek 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Thompson Creek 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Toms Branch 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Yellowstone Prong 3.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Amos Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bailey Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bear Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Branch 3.0 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Lower Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mason Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sandy Branch 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sutton Creek 3.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beetree Fork 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dixon Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Flat Branch 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Frankum Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Kirby Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
New Years Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Raccoon Branch 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Reedys Fork 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shinbone Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Webb Creek 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
West Prong Hickey Fork 2.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bad Fork 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Barnett Branch 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bearwallow Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Charles Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dogwood Flats Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Kiesee Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lamance Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lyddies Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
McClure Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Middle Fork Fletcher Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mills Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Prong Turkey Creek 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Hand Prong West Fork Pigeon River 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tarkiln Branch 2.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bearwallow Branch 2.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Cascade Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Charley Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
China Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Indian Camp Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Indian Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jones Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Licklog Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Miser Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pritchard Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Fork Pigeonroost Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sally Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sawmill Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Timbered Branch 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Walnut Bottom Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wiles Creek 2.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Andrews Creek 2.6 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Beasley Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dark Prong 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hensley Branch 2.6 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
House Branch 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Left Fork Mulberry Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lottie Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pond Branch 2.6 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Poundingmill Branch 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shuford Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Snowbird Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Thorps Creek 2.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Town Branch 2.6 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Wilson Mill Creek 2.6 untyped — —
Amos Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Colbert Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cook Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Devils Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Eliza Estes Mill Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Glady Branch 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Harris Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Johnies Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Brook 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Locust Creek 2.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Loving Branch 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sorrell Creek 2.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beatty Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Bearpen Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Blacksnake Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Caney Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Chestnut Cove Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Chimney Creek 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dovers Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Flint Level Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Greasy Creek 2.4 untyped — —
Griffith Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hickorylog Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Wilson Creek 2.4 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Orchard Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Paxton Creek 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pine Branch 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Poplar Creek 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rocky Fork 2.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Anderson Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cold Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dry Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
East Fork Shut-In Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gilliland Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Grogan Creek 2.3 untyped — —
Groundhog Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mill Station Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Cattail Creek 2.3 untyped — —
Pate Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Peter Cove Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Phillips Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Reids Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Prong South Toe River 2.3 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
South Fork Cattail Creek 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tough Hill Branch 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Trent Branch 2.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
West Fork Shut-In Creek 2.3 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Bear Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Bearwallow Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Black Fork 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bowling Green Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bridge Branch 2.2 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Camp Rock Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Deerstand Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dog Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dry Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fall Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gilbert Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Horse Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jim Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Locust Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lonon Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
McGegers Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mountain Island Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Nick Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Patsy Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pups Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Revels Prong 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Skiffley Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Spencer Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sugar Cave Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sweetwater Branch 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
West Fork Little Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wilkins Creek 2.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ashley Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Barnett Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beech Creek 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Mountain Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cary Flat Branch 2.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Cave Creek 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dicks Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Estes Mill Creek 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hampton Creek 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Joel Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jones Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pineroot Branch 2.1 untyped — —
Reedy Branch 2.1 untyped — —
Rockhouse Creek 2.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Sams Creek 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Soapstone Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Staire Branch 2.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Anderson Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Burnett Creek 2.0 untyped — —
Caney Bottom Creek 2.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Carroll Mill Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cherry Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cow Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Daniel Ridge Creek 2.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Elijah Estes Mill Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fork Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Greasy Cove Prong 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Inman Branch 2.0 untyped — —
Johns Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Bottom Branch 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Maple Spring Branch 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Racket Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Raider Camp Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Fork Davidson River 2.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Ripshin Branch 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Runyon Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sitton Creek 2.0 untyped — —
Thee Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Toms Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wesley Creek 2.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bearwallow Brook 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bull Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Coffey Creek 1.9 untyped — —
Elk Hollow Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Guys Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hawkbill Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Holder Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hunter Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jack Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Licklog Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Log Hollow Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mill Creek 1.9 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Tucker Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Peach Orchard Creek 1.9 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Roaring Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Roaring Fork 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shuck Ridge Creek 1.9 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Singecat Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
South Fork Upper Creek 1.9 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Spain Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Spanish Oak Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Turkey Creek 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Van Noy Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
White Spring Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Whiteoak Flats Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Woolsey Branch 1.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bad Fork 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bee Branch 1.8 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Big Beartrap Branch 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bubbling Spring Branch 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Burgins Fork 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Clear Creek 1.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Crawley Branch 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dyson Creek 1.8 untyped — —
Horsepen Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Left Prong Still Fork Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
McKinney Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Queen Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Roaring Spout Branch 1.8 untyped — —
Rube Rock Branch 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shade Branch 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shining Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
South Fork Roses Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
South Fork Toms Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Stapps Branch 1.8 untyped — —
Straight Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Youngs Fork Creek 1.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beasley Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Lost Cove Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Clover Patch Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Crawford Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Flat Laurel Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Flattop Mountain Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Henry Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hurricane Gap Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jerry Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ledford Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Andy Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Prong 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pigeon Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Reed Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Richland Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sassafras Creek 1.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Shut-in Branch 1.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Stinking Camp Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Strutton Creek 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Waterfall Creek 1.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Woodson Branch 1.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ballew Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Brown Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cline Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Coontree Creek 1.6 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Counterfeit Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Deep Cove Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Deer Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fall Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Friddle Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Graham Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gulf Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hicks Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Honey Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Left Prong Mill Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Fall Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Long Mountain Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mitchell Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Puncheon Camp Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Reuben Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rich Cove Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sheehan Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Spencer Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Straight Branch 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ugly Creek 1.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ball Branch 1.5 untyped — —
Bear Cave Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bear Drive Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beck Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Billy Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Buckeye Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Camp Cove Branch 1.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Clawhammer Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cook Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cooper Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cox Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Dogback Spring Branch 1.5 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Georges Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Grassy Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Horse Branch 1.5 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Hughes Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jumping Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Fork Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Left Prong South Toe River 1.5 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Little Will Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Melhany Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Mill Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Moore Branch 1.5 untyped — —
Painter Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Phillips Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Right Prong Mill Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shining Rock Creek 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Skiffly Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Squirrel Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Starens Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Stein Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tom Hall Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
White Oak Flats Branch 1.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Anthony Bolick Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bart Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bennett Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Rocky Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Boomer Inn Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Boyd Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cambric Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Cane Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Charles Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Chestnut Orchard Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Crooked Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Early Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Henderson Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hickory Ridge Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hull Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Log Branch 1.4 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Leathermans Fork 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Bearwallow Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Lost Cove Creek 1.4 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Little Spivey Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Cow Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ogle Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rightfork Mulberry Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Scapecat Branch 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tom Creek 1.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Allen Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Baldwin Field Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Billy King Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bracken Creek 1.3 untyped — —
Camp Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Catpen Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Coonpatch Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Crusher Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
East Fork Little Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hogpen Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ling Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Major Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Middle Fork Upper Creek 1.3 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Mine Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Muddy Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Prong Shining Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Parris Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pump Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Reservoir Branch 1.3 untyped — Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Rush Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sawmill Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Setrock Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Slick Falls Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Spring Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Steve Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Walnut Cove Creek 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wayah Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Woody Branch 1.3 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Acorn Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Baxter Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Big Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Burnthouse Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Camp Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Charlie Creek 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Chute Branch 1.2 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Dave Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fall Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Grassy Knob Branch 1.2 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
House Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jake Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jesse Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Fork 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
McLean Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Middle Fork Cow Creek 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Middle Fork Rock Creek 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Paddys Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pea Branch 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pinchgut Creek 1.2 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Shingle Pile Creek 1.2 untyped — —
Barn Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Beaten Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Brushy Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Coalney Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Double Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Ephraim Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gaylors Branch 1.1 untyped — —
Green Creek 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hemphill Creek 1.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Holly Bottom Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Jason Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Laurel Mountain Branch 1.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Left Prong Newberry Creek 1.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Matheys Branch 1.1 untyped — —
Neals Creek 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Orchard Branch 1.1 untyped — —
Orchard Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rattlesnake Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Simmons Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Thad Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Turkey Branch 1.1 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
West Ridge Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Whistling Gap Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Woodruff Branch 1.1 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bear Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Burnfield Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Chimney Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Douglas Branch 1.0 untyped — —
Firescald Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Flat Land Branch 1.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Globe Mountain Branch 1.0 untyped — —
Grassy Ridge Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Haywood Gap Stream 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Johns Camp Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Kagle Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Lanning Branch 1.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Linn Cove Branch 1.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Maple Bald Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Maple Camp Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Norris Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
North Fork Rock Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pit Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Poplar Cove Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Powers Branch 1.0 untyped — —
Searcy Creek 1.0 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Shop Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Slaty Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Slim Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
South Prong Shining Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Tantrough Branch 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Yellow Gap Creek 1.0 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bald Knob Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Benbo Branch 0.9 untyped — —
Boardpan Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Camping Fork 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Case Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Deep Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
East Branch Little Whiteoak Creek 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fawn Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Goldmine Branch 0.9 untyped — —
Hammett Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hickory Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Joe Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
John Rock Branch 0.9 untyped — —
Middle Prong Clear Creek 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Newman Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Poplar Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Poplar Spring Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Pounding Mill Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Raven Cliff Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Rich Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Turnpike Creek 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Whaley Branch 0.9 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bearpen Creek 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bynum Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Camp Two Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Creasman Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Darb Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hannah Branch 0.8 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Left Prong Clear Creek 0.8 untyped — —
Little Beartrap Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Laurel Creek 0.8 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Right Prong Clear Creek 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Sam Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Slickrock Branch 0.8 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Upper Creek 0.8 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Beetree Creek 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bills Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Fisher Branch 0.7 untyped — Hatchery Supported Trout Waters
Little Darb Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Mountain Creek 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Little Tarkiln Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Neil Gap Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Stillwater Branch 0.7 untyped — Catch and Release/Artificial Flies and Lures Only Trout Waters
Sugartree Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Waterfall Branch 0.7 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Bill Autrey Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Brushy Ridge Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Buckeye Branch 0.6 untyped — —
Clear Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hemlock Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hickory Mountain Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Hopewell Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Wildcat Branch 0.6 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Carvers Gap Creek 0.5 untyped — —
Dina Branch 0.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
Gumstand Branch 0.5 untyped — Wild Trout Waters
John Autrey Branch 0.4 untyped — Wild Trout Waters

The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.

Hunting

This ground is in North Carolina's huntable public-land layer as national forest, managed by US Forest Service — 100% of the unit is covered by it. The seasons below are the 2026–2027 small-game seasons as the state's own digest publishes them; they are statewide except where a species is zoned, and the bars run 1 September to 31 August.

Ruffed grouse 12 Oct – 28 Feb

North Carolina requires hunter orange — a cap or hat, or an outer garment visible from all sides — for anyone hunting grouse, pheasant or quail with a firearm. Turkey is not on that list and woodcock is not either. NCWRC does not publish a bag limit on its season-dates sheet and we could not confirm one elsewhere, so none is shown — check the Regulations Digest. The season is statewide because NCWRC writes it statewide. The bird is not: ruffed grouse in North Carolina are a western mountain species, in and around the Blue Ridge and the Nantahala and Pisgah forests, and the population there has fallen hard with the loss of young forest.

Northern bobwhite 21 Nov – 28 Feb

North Carolina requires hunter orange — a cap or hat, or an outer garment visible from all sides — for anyone hunting grouse, pheasant or quail with a firearm. Turkey is not on that list and woodcock is not either. NCWRC does not publish a bag limit on its season-dates sheet and we could not confirm one elsewhere, so none is shown — check the Regulations Digest. The Piedmont and the coastal plain are the quail ground, and NCWRC runs an active restoration programme on it — the CURE co-operative and its focal landscapes are the reason North Carolina's bobwhite story is not simply the decline it is elsewhere.

American woodcock 10 Dec – 30 Jan

Daily bag 3, possession 9. Migratory bird: HIP certification is required in addition to the hunting licence. North Carolina sits near the southern end of the Atlantic flyway, so the season opens late — the birds arrive on hard cold fronts in December rather than living here in October. Not on NCWRC's hunter-orange list, which names grouse, pheasant and quail. The possession limit is three times the daily bag.

Wild turkey (spring) 17 Apr – 15 May, 10 Apr – 11 Apr

NCWRC does not publish a bag limit on its season-dates sheet and we could not confirm one elsewhere, so none is shown — check the Regulations Digest. North Carolina has no fall turkey season. This is the state's only one, and unlike Michigan's and Virginia's fall hunts it takes male or bearded birds only. Turkey is not on NCWRC's hunter-orange list. A youth season runs the weekend before the general opener.

Ring-necked pheasant zoned — see below

Zoned — North Carolina publishes this season by zone, and this page does not place this unit in one, so no season bar is drawn. Seasons by zone — Remainder of the state: 5 Sep – 28 Feb; Barrier islands of Carteret, Dare and Hyde counties: 21 Nov – 28 Feb. North Carolina requires hunter orange — a cap or hat, or an outer garment visible from all sides — for anyone hunting grouse, pheasant or quail with a firearm. Turkey is not on that list and woodcock is not either. NCWRC does not publish a bag limit on its season-dates sheet and we could not confirm one elsewhere, so none is shown — check the Regulations Digest. Two seasons, and the short one is the real one. The barrier islands of Carteret, Dare and Hyde carry a naturalised population hunted as a wild bird, male only. The statewide either-sex season is long and permissive because the mainland birds being shot under it are released ones. Neither boundary is drawn in this app.

Hunter orange: Anyone hunting bear, feral swine, rabbit, squirrel, grouse, pheasant or quail with a firearm must wear a cap or hat of hunter orange, or an outer garment of hunter orange visible from all sides. It applies to hunting grouse, pheasant or quail with a firearm, except when hunting wild turkey, woodcock and waterfowl.

North Carolina allows Sunday hunting on private land with some limits, and restricts it on many public game lands. The per-game-land rule is not carried in this app — check the game land before you go.

Access sites and amenities

No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.

When to come

The hatch calendar for the North Carolina mountains, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out. The seasons above are the other half of this calendar: the water is best before the ground is.

December

Nothing seasonal on the water.

What makes this unit distinctive

Pisgah is 510,983 acres in 111 parts across Transylvania, McDowell, Haywood and Caldwell counties, and 643 of the 675 named streams touching it are designated trout water. It carries the two rivers that define trout fishing in western North Carolina at opposite ends of the forest: the Catawba, 58.4 miles holding Delayed Harvest, Hatchery Supported, Special Regulation and Wild Trout designations, and the French Broad, 63.5 miles of Hatchery Supported and Wild Trout water. The Pigeon runs 45.4 miles, the Linville 44.9 and the Johns River 41.2 as Wild Trout; Big Laurel Creek adds 35.0 miles across three regimes. It appears on the Upper Yadkin, Upper Catawba, Seneca and Watauga watershed pages. PAD-US records it open access.

Regulations

Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the North Carolina fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns. The hunting seasons above come from the state's hunting digest, read against the 2026 licence year.

Watersheds it lies in

The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.

Public land nearby

The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.

Plan a weekend around it

The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.