BirdTrout

Moore Creek, Wisconsin

13.5 mapped river miles, draining 39 square miles, in the Kickapoo basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.2 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR's classification of the water itself.

Open in BirdTrout →

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 12.2 miles away, at Stillwell Creek At Sixteenth Court Near Tomah, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

Thermal classification

This is inferred, not measured. Wisconsin DNR does not publish a temperature classification for this water. What it publishes is a management tier — whether the trout in it are wild, hold over through summer, or are stocked and fished out — and the bands below are read off that tier, because a stream that sustains wild trout is a cold stream and one that does not hold fish past July is not. It is the agency's judgement of the fishery translated into the four bands this site paints everywhere else; it is not a thermometer, and where the two disagree the thermometer is right.

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 14.9 of the 15.0 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% 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

• Moore Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish Moore Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
• Moore Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
• Is Moore Creek good for brook trout?
• Is Moore Creek good for brown 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
• Brown Trout stocked only

WDNR has stocked brook trout into this water 8 times between 2015 and 2024. 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 brown trout into this water 8 times between 2015 and 2022. 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

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

Moore Creek sits in HUC 8 07070006, the Kickapoo basin, and drains 39 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 26 NHD reaches carry the name for 15.0 miles in total — more than the 13.5 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.

• Cook Creek 3.8 mi
• Brush Creek 3.9 mi
• Billings Creek 4.8 mi
• Lydon Valley Creek 5.1 mi
• Warner Creek 5.1 mi
• Spring Valley Creek 5.3 mi