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Fishing Creek, Pennsylvania

11.5 mapped river miles, draining 19 square miles, in the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and PA DEP's classification of the water itself.

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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

This gauge stands in Fishing Creek. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is PA DEP's — but the reading is this water.

Thermal classification

PA DEP's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.

PA DEP has classified 34.1 of the 37 miles NHD carries for this stream — 93% of it. The typed water splits 12.2 mi warm, 11.4 mi cold, 10.5 mi cool. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water PA DEP's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.

Questions about this river

• Fishing Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to Fishing Creek — access, parking and public land
• Fishing Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

PA DEP classification

PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, and Warm Water Fishes. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking, Warm Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

Access

1 mapped PA DEP access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Fort Hunter Access (RM 0.0). 0 walk-in, 1 boat or canoe launches.

Public land on the river

3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 1,079 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes, Trout Stocking — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Tributaries and watershed

Fishing Creek sits in HUC 8 02050305, the Lower Susquehanna Swatara basin, and drains 19 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 76 NHD reaches carry the name for 36.7 miles in total — more than the 11.5 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.

• Swatara Creek 8.0 mi
• Powells Creek 8.6 mi
• Iron Run 9.2 mi
• Stony Run 10.1 mi
• Stony Creek 10.3 mi
• Spring Creek 10.7 mi