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Timber Coulee — Timber Coulee Creek, Wisconsin
Also called Timber Coulee Creek, The Coulee.
29 NHD reaches, 12.4 miles of drawn channel — side channels and braids included, so more than the distance downriver.
Open in BirdTroutThe 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
Eight miles of Class I brown trout water running from Westby through Coon Valley — the stream the Driftless restoration model was built on, with lunker structures and bank work along most of its length.
Wisconsin inland trout regulations; the reach from CTH P upstream to Olstad Road is regulated separately from the rest of the creek. Check the current WDNR trout regulations before fishing.
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
Wisconsin inland trout regulations; the reach from CTH P upstream to Olstad Road is regulated separately from the rest of the creek. Check the current WDNR trout regulations before fishing.
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
Spring-fed and cold through summer. Blue-winged olives and caddis from April, terrestrials from July.
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 Driftless Angler — 9.6 mi
- Tri State Bait & Tackle — 21.9 mi
- American Outfitters — 24.8 mi
- River n Ridge Outdoors — 27.6 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.
- guide Fly Fishing Wisconsin
- flyshop Driftless Angler
- state Travel Wisconsin
The river this is part of
Timber Coulee Creek — live temperature, regulations and access