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The West Fork — West Fork Kickapoo River, Wisconsin
Also called West Fork of the Kickapoo, West Fork Kickapoo River.
57 NHD reaches, 27.7 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
Twenty-odd miles of spring-fed Coulee Country water above and below Avalanche, held open to anglers in large part by the West Fork Sports Club's leases and habitat work.
Wisconsin inland trout regulations; several reaches carry their own bag and size limits. Check the current WDNR trout regulations for the reach you are 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; several reaches carry their own bag and size limits. Check the current WDNR trout regulations for the reach you are 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
Fishes from the March catch-and-release opener through October; hatches follow the Driftless pattern of olives, caddis and then hoppers.
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 — 7.1 mi
- River n Ridge Outdoors — 28.2 mi
- American Outfitters — 28.6 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
- association West Fork Sports Club
- flyshop Driftless Angler
The river this is part of
West Fork Kickapoo River — live temperature, regulations and access