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McGinnis Creek, Wisconsin

9.6 mapped river miles, draining 23 square miles, in the Lake Dubay basin watershed.

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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.

Thermal classification

There is no USGS gauge within 40 miles of this stream in the record this site holds, so there is no live temperature on this page and no measured July mean. Everything below the bar is Wisconsin DNR's own classification of the water.

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 6.3 of the 14.8 miles NHD carries for this stream — 42% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. 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

• McGinnis Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish McGinnis Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
• McGinnis Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
• Is McGinnis Creek good for brook trout?
• Is McGinnis Creek good for rainbow trout?

Wisconsin DNR classification

Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class II. The management tier on those reaches is wild supplemented. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.

WDNR trout stream classification →

Species

• Brook Trout stocked only
• Rainbow Trout stocked only

WDNR has stocked brook trout into this water 3 times between 2015 and 2017. That is a stocking record rather than a survey — it says the fish were put in, not that a survey has found them since.

WDNR has stocked rainbow trout into this water once, in 2018. That is a stocking record rather than a survey — it says the fish were put in, not that a survey has found them since.

Hatches on this water

42 insects are recorded from northern Wisconsin, 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 28 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.

• Grass Creek 6.4 mi · RM 1.6

McGinnis Creek sits in HUC 8 07070002, the Lake Dubay basin, and drains 23 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 32 NHD reaches carry the name for 14.8 miles in total — more than the 9.6 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.

• Stony Creek 2.6 mi
• Grass Creek 2.8 mi
• Baldwin Creek 4.9 mi
• Einert Creek 5.3 mi
• South Fork Copper River 5.3 mi
• Spring Creek 6.5 mi