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The Namekagon Artificial-Only Water — Namekagon River, Wisconsin

104 NHD reaches, 124.0 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 Namekagon above the St. Croix, under artificial lures and a single fish over fourteen inches — big water for Wisconsin, wild browns and brook trout, and a National Scenic Riverway around it. The regulation covers part of the stream, not all of it — the extent above is the agency's wording. What is drawn here is the whole named stream, because there is no boundary anywhere we could check it against.

Artificial lures only; 1 trout over 14 inches.

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; 1 trout over 14 inches.

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 Hendrickson and the brown drake are the two hatches people plan trips around.

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. 3 independent sources below use the name, and it ships only because more than one of them does.