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Spring Creek Delayed Harvest — Spring Creek French Broad, North Carolina

Also called Hot Springs DH.

16 NHD reaches, 2.7 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver.

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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 delayed-harvest water through Hot Springs, from the N.C. 209 bridge at the town limits to the iron bridge at the end of Andrews Avenue.

Delayed Harvest Trout Waters. Artificial lures with one single hook, catch and release, October 1 to the first Saturday in June.

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

Delayed Harvest Trout Waters. Artificial lures with one single hook, catch and release, October 1 to the first Saturday in June.

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

October through spring; walkable from town.

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.