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South Toe Catch-and-Release — South Toe River, North Carolina

4 NHD reaches, 1.7 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver.

Open in BirdTrout

The line is the water this name refers to, drawn from the NHD reaches it resolves to; the dots are the nearest gauges reporting water temperature, coloured by what they read now.

What it is

The catch-and-release, artificial-flies-and-lures-only water on South Toe River — headwaters down to Upper Creek. Wild-trout water rather than stocked: nothing is put in and nothing comes out, and the extent drawn here is NCWRC's own.

Catch and Release / Artificial Flies and Lures Only: open all year, no trout may be harvested or possessed, one single hook, and natural bait may not be on your person.

Where it is

The line on the map is the stretch the NC Wildlife Resources Commission designates, drawn from the Commission's own Public Mountain Trout Waters geometry rather than from a boundary this site inferred.

No access site in this state's file falls within 3 miles of the mapped reach.

Regulations on this stretch

Catch and Release / Artificial Flies and Lures Only: open all year, no trout may be harvested or possessed, one single hook, and natural bait may not be on your person.

Rules change every year and the posted signs are the authority, not this page. Check the current North Carolina regulations before you fish. Where this stretch sits inside a larger river, that river's general regulations apply everywhere this stretch's do not.

Best times

Wild fish, so the season is the weather rather than a stocking truck. Spring and autumn are the reliable ends of it; the water is small enough that a hot, dry August is worth waiting out.

Live water temperature

No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 25 miles of this stretch, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.

Fly shops nearby

Straight-line distance from the centre of the mapped reach.

Sources for the name

BirdTrout did not name this water. 2 independent sources below use the name, and it ships only because more than one of them does.