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Pine River, Wisconsin
9.3 mapped river miles, draining 115 square miles, in the Lake Dubay basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 37.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is Wisconsin DNR's classification of the water itself.
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 37.1 miles away, at Red River At Morgan Road Near Morgan, Wi — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The character of the water
The Lake Dubay basin's Pine River is typed over about three-quarters of its length — 18.6 of 25.56 NHD miles, 73 per cent — and the classification runs Cool ahead of Cold, 12.1 miles against 6.5. Wisconsin DNR designates the water Class II and Class III, managed as wild supplemented and as stocked, which agrees with that balance. These pages cannot say which end of the river each class sits at. There is no gauge in it and no measured temperature. The channel is 15.2 feet across at the median, fourth order, draining 115.31 square miles over just 9.3 miles of mapped axis. No block of public land in these files fronts it, and Wisconsin has no access file. The North Branch, twice the length of the mapped mainstem, comes in at river mile 9.3.
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.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | Wisconsin DNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 9.3–9.3 | 5.8 | cold | — |
| RM 9.3–9.3 | 4.2 | cool | — |
| RM 9.3–9.3 | 0.1 | cold | — |
| RM 9.3–9.3 | 3.1 | cool | — |
| RM 9.3–9.3 | 0.6 | cold | — |
| RM 9.3–4.9 | 4.8 | cool | — |
Wisconsin DNR has classified 18.6 of the 26 miles NHD carries for this stream — 73% of it. The typed water splits 12.1 mi cool, 6.5 mi 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
- Pine River fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish the Pine River — hatches, seasons and temperature
- Pine River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
Wisconsin DNR classification
Wisconsin DNR classifies this water as Class II 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 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
Wisconsin DNR designates this as trout water — Class II, 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
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.
| Insect | Peak | Water | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Eggs Other |
October–January and April | 33–60°F | #10–16 |
| Little Brown Stonefly Taeniopteryx / Strophopteryx spp. |
February–April | 38–50°F | #12–16 |
| Blue-Winged Olive Baetis spp. |
March–May and September–November | 38–58°F | #16–22 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Cranefly Tipula spp. |
April–June and September–October | 40–65°F | #6–10 |
| Grannom Brachycentrus spp. |
April–May | 48–58°F | #14–16 |
| Green Rock Worm / Green Weenie Rhyacophila spp. |
April–June and September–October | 45–68°F | #10–14 |
| Hendrickson Ephemerella subvaria |
April–May | 45–58°F | #12–14 |
| Alderfly Sialis spp. |
May–June | 52–66°F | #10–14 |
| Caterpillar Lepidoptera larvae |
May–September | 55–75°F | #8–14 |
| Crayfish Orconectes spp. |
May–October | 55–78°F | #4–8 |
| Giant Black Stonefly (Salmonfly) Pteronarcys dorsata |
May–June | 50–62°F | #4–6 |
| Green Sedge Rhyacophila spp. |
May–August | 48–64°F | #12–16 |
| Light Cahill Maccaffertium ithaca |
May–July | 55–68°F | #12–16 |
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
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- North Branch Pine River 17.8 mi · RM 9.3
- Rajek Creek 5.9 mi · RM 6.7
- Pat Smith Creek 5.4 mi · RM 4.9
Pine River sits in HUC 8 07070002, the Lake Dubay basin, and drains 115 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 54 NHD reaches carry the name for 25.6 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.