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The Special Regulations Stretch — Bois Brule River, Wisconsin
Also called Co. Hwy. B to Co. Hwy. S, the upper Brule meadows.
58 NHD reaches, 53.4 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.
The map draws the whole named Bois Brule. The special-regulations water is the stretch between County Highway B and County Highway S; the state forest posts both boundaries.
What it is
The slow, wide upper Brule between County Highway B and County Highway S, above Stone's Bridge — spring-fed meadow water and the part of the river that fishes best with a dry fly.
Artificial lures only with a reduced bag limit — three trout or salmon in total. The upper river south of U.S. Highway 2 opens the first Saturday in May; the lower river north of Highway 2 opens the last Saturday in March.
Where it is
This name covers a stretch whose boundaries are posted on the ground rather than held in any file this site reads, so the map draws the named stream and the boundaries are described in words above rather than guessed at with a line.
No access site in this state's file falls within 3 miles of the mapped reach.
Regulations on this stretch
Artificial lures only with a reduced bag limit — three trout or salmon in total. The upper river south of U.S. Highway 2 opens the first Saturday in May; the lower river north of Highway 2 opens the last Saturday in March.
Rules change every year and the posted signs are the authority, not this page. Check the current Wisconsin 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
The larger hatches run from May to the end of June. Resident brown and brook trout above County Highway B.
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
- The Bait Box — 19.1 mi
- Southside Bait & Tackle — 22.1 mi
- Sportsman's Choice — 22.7 mi
Straight-line distance from the centre of the mapped reach.
Sources for the name
BirdTrout did not name this water. 3 independent sources below use the name, and it ships only because more than one of them does.
- dnr Wisconsin DNR
- guide Fly Fishing Wisconsin
- magazine Great Lakes Angler