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Hornby Creek, Wisconsin

9.3 mapped river miles, draining 20 square miles, in the Coon Yellow basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 33.0 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR'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

The nearest gauge is 33.0 miles away, at Silver Creek At State Highway 21 Near Angelo, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

Thermal classification

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

Wisconsin DNR has classified 16.1 of the 16.0 miles NHD carries for this stream — 101% of it. The typed water splits 9.9 mi cold, 6.2 mi cool. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water Wisconsin DNR's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.

Questions about this river

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

Wisconsin DNR classification

Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class I and Class III. 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 stocked, wild. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

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Public land on the river

1 unit of public or open-access land touches this river, 1,362 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

Wisconsin DNR designates this as trout water — Class I, Class III — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Hatches on this water

51 insects are recorded from the Wisconsin driftless, which is the region this river sits in. That is a claim about the region and not a survey of this stream: nobody has recorded which of them has been caught here. 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 37 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.

• Bull Run 1.6 mi · RM 1.1

Hornby Creek sits in HUC 8 07060001, the Coon Yellow basin, and drains 20 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 36 NHD reaches carry the name for 16.0 miles in total — more than the 9.3 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.

• Springville Branch Bad Axe River 3.5 mi
• South Fork Bad Axe River 3.5 mi
• North Fork Bad Axe River 3.9 mi
• Cox Creek 3.9 mi
• Reads Creek 4.3 mi
• Sherry Creek 4.9 mi