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Nantahala River fishing regulations

North Carolina WRC classifies water on the Nantahala River as Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters and Wild Trout Waters, managed as stocked holdover and wild. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules. The posted signs and the current digest are the authority, not this page.

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State trout-water classification

Class
Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, Hatchery Supported Trout Waters, Wild Trout Waters
Management
stocked holdover, wild
Source
North Carolina WRC, per classified reach

The season and creel rules change yearly and live with the agency; this page does not paraphrase them.

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Rules change every year and the posted signs are the authority, not this page. The full state tables, with the date they were read, are on North Carolina fishing regulations.

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