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East Fork Upper Twin Creek, Ohio
3.9 mapped river miles, draining 4 square miles, in the Ohio Brush Whiteoak basin watershed.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
Thermal classification
There isn't one. Ohio EPA publishes no temperature classification for any water in Ohio. What it publishes is the aquatic life use below — a habitat designation under Ohio Administrative Code 3745-1, which describes the assemblage the water holds rather than the temperature it runs at — so this river draws grey on the map above, and grey here means unmeasured rather than warm.
Questions about this river
- East Fork Upper Twin Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish East Fork Upper Twin Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to East Fork Upper Twin Creek — access, parking and public land
- East Fork Upper Twin Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Ohio EPA classification
Ohio EPA classifies this water as Exceptional Warmwater Habitat / Coldwater Habitat. This is Ohio EPA's description of the aquatic community the water supports, assigned under OAC 3745-1 on fish and macroinvertebrate survey scores. It is not the season and creel rules — those are the ODNR Division of Wildlife's, change yearly, and live with that agency.
Ohio EPA water quality standards, OAC 3745-1 →
Public land on the river
1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 69,749 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Shawnee State Forest | ODNR | 69,749 |
Species
Ohio EPA designates this as trout water — Exceptional Warmwater Habitat / Coldwater Habitat — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
56 insects are recorded from the Virginia mountains, across the state line. No insect records in this dataset are filed under Ohio, so these are the nearest ones — the same landscape and the same water, on the other side of the border, and not a survey of this stream or even of this state. Open the river in the app and the hatch panel will narrow it to the ones whose temperature window today's reading is inside.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Black Stonefly Allocapnia / Capnia spp. |
January–April | 34–46°F | #16–18 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Quill Gordon Epeorus pleuralis |
March–April | 42–52°F | #12–14 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Blue Quill Paraleptophlebia adoptiva |
April–May | 44–56°F | #16–18 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Green Rock Worm / Green Weenie Rhyacophila spp. |
April–June and September–October | 45–68°F | #10–14 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| Alderfly Sialis spp. |
May–June | 52–66°F | #10–14 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
And 42 more — the year-round records, mostly: midges, scuds and sculpins, which are in the water every day and are therefore never the news.
Tributaries and watershed
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Upper Twin Creek 10.4 mi · RM 0.0
- Bald Knob Run 1.6 mi · RM 1.3
- Jake Run 0.4 mi · RM 1.1
East Fork Upper Twin Creek sits in HUC 8 05090201, the Ohio Brush Whiteoak basin, and drains 4 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 12 NHD reaches carry the name for 4.0 miles in total — more than the 3.9 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.