Is Fish Creek good for rainbow trout?

Yes, on the classification rather than on a thermometer. Michigan stocks rainbow trout into Fish Creek, and MDNR classes most of its typed water as cold — but no USGS gauge on this river reports water temperature, so this site has no measured July mean to hold against the 55–65 °F band this fish wants. Fish of 8–16 inches are what Michigan reports as typical. The river is designated Type 1, Type 2 and Type 4 trout water, which is what sets the size and creel limits.

Open Fish Creek on the map See Fish Creek on the live map → Every reach coloured by water temperature, with the public land and access points along it.

What the state's records say

Species: Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
In Michigan: introduced
Record here: stocked — no survey record on this water
Holds in: 55–65 °F, stops feeding above 75 °F
Typical: 8–16 inches
Spawns: Spring — March into May — on gravel, which is what separates it from the two autumn spawners above.

Introduced from Pacific-slope stock in the 1880s. The lake-run form — steelhead — is the same species, and the rivers that hold resident rainbows are largely the rivers steelhead run.

Is the water cold enough

No USGS gauge on this river reports water temperature, so there is no measured July mean to put beside the species' band. MDNR's classification of the typed reaches is Cold, and that is a classification rather than a thermometer.

Gauge	Now	July mean
WOLF CREEK AT PINE GROVE ROAD NEAR VESTABURG, MI	58.6 °F	—

What you may keep

Reach type	Miles	Minimum	Season
Type 1 Designated	13.0	10″	Last Saturday in April–September 30th
Type 4 Designated	27.0	10″	January 1st–December 31st

From Michigan's own regulation tables, per designated type, and the current digest is the authority rather than this page. Full regulations for this river →

What to fish for it

Fish Eggs — October–January and April, #10–16
Little Black Stonefly — January–April, #16–18
Little Brown Stonefly — February–April, #12–16
Blue-Winged Olive — March–May and September–November, #16–22
Blackfly — April–June, #18–22
Blue Quill — April–May, #16–18
Cranefly — April–June and September–October, #6–10
Grannom — April–May, #14–16

The insects recorded from this river's region, earliest first. The full calendar →

More about Fish Creek

Fish Creek — live water temperature, regulations and access