BirdTroutOpen the map Is Palmer Creek good for rainbow trout?
Yes, on the classification rather than on a thermometer. WDNR has stocked rainbow trout into Palmer Creek across 2 recorded plants, between 2015 and 2016, and this site reads the water as cool from WDNR's management tier for it, which is an inference from how the fishery is managed and not a temperature WDNR publishes — but no USGS gauge on this river reports water temperature, so this site has no measured July mean to hold against the 55–65 °F band this fish wants. That is a stocking record and not a survey: it says WDNR put the fish in, not that anyone has since found one holding over. Fish of 8–16 inches are what Wisconsin reports as typical.
What the state's records say
- Species
- Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
- In Wisconsin
- introduced
- Record here
- stocked — no survey record on this water
- Holds in
- 55–65 °F, stops feeding above 75 °F
- Typical
- 8–16 inches
- Spawns
- Spring — March into May — on gravel, which is what separates it from the two autumn spawners above.
Introduced, and the least widely reproducing of Wisconsin's three stream trout: stocked broadly, wild in a smaller share of the classified water than brown or brook.
Is the water cold enough
No USGS gauge on this river reports water temperature, so there is no measured July mean to put beside the species' band. WDNR publishes no temperature classification for this water; the Cool band above is inferred from its management tier for the fishery, and it is not a thermometer.
| Gauge | Now | July mean |
|---|---|---|
| FOX RIVER NEAR NEW MUNSTER, WI | 64.0 °F | 78.4 °F |
What you may keep
Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class III. The management tier on those reaches is stocked. This is a designation of the fishery and not the season and creel rules.
WDNR trout stream classification → Wisconsin season and creel rules →
What to fish for it
- Fish Eggs — October–January and April, #10–16
- Little Brown Stonefly — February–April, #12–16
- Blue-Winged Olive — March–May and September–November, #16–22
- Blackfly — April–June, #18–22
- Cranefly — April–June and September–October, #6–10
- Grannom — April–May, #14–16
- Green Rock Worm / Green Weenie — April–June and September–October, #10–14
- Hendrickson — April–May, #12–14
The insects recorded from this river's region, earliest first. The full calendar →
More about Palmer Creek
Palmer Creek — live water temperature, regulations and access