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Wes Run, Ohio

2.2 mapped river miles, draining 1 square mile, in the Ohio Brush Whiteoak basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 38.4 miles away, and it is the only temperature evidence on this page — what Ohio EPA 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.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish

USGS gauge — live water temperature

Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

58 64 70

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.

The nearest live reading

The nearest gauge is 38.4 miles away, at Paint Creek (Scioto) — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

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. The only temperature on this page is the live reading from the nearest USGS gauge, 38.4 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.

Questions about this river

• Wes Run fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish Wes Run — hatches, seasons and temperature
• How to get to Wes Run — access, parking and public land
• Wes Run fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

Ohio EPA classification

Ohio EPA classifies this water as 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.

Species

Ohio EPA designates this as trout water — 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.

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

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• Turkey Creek 12.9 mi · RM 0.0

Wes Run sits in HUC 8 05090201, the Ohio Brush Whiteoak basin, and drains 1 square mile, Strahler order 2 at the mouth. 3 NHD reaches carry the name for 2.2 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.

• Barbara Run 0.3 mi
• Buck Lick 0.6 mi
• Harber Fork Turkey Creek 0.6 mi
• Brush Fork 1.2 mi
• Turkey Creek 1.7 mi
• Lampblack Run 1.9 mi