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Waumandee Creek, Wisconsin
15.8 mapped river miles, draining 169 square miles, in the Buffalo Whitewater basin watershed.
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 character of the water
Waumandee Creek is Class II water under Wisconsin DNR, managed as wild supplemented, with 19.3 of its 35.63 NHD miles typed Cold — 54 per cent, and no reach classed otherwise. Half the creek classified is half a description of it. There is no gauge in it and no measured temperature. The channel is 20.1 feet across at the median, fifth order, draining 169.18 square miles over the 15.8 miles of axis mapped. No block of public land in these files fronts it, and Wisconsin has no access file, so this page can say nothing about where the bank is open. Little Waumandee Creek, at 21.6 miles longer than the mapped mainstem, comes in at the head at river mile 15.8, and Eagle Creek meets the water at the mouth.
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.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | Wisconsin DNR type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 15.8–10.1 | 19.3 | cold | — |
Wisconsin DNR has classified 19.3 of the 36 miles NHD carries for this stream — 54% 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
- Waumandee Creek fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Waumandee Creek — hatches, seasons and temperature
- Waumandee Creek fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
- Is Waumandee Creek good for brook trout?
- Is Waumandee 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
WDNR has stocked brook trout into this water 12 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 10 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.
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.
- Little Waumandee Creek 21.6 mi · RM 15.8
- Eagle Creek 17.8 mi · RM 0.0
- Screech Owl Creek 1.9 mi · RM 11.8
Waumandee Creek sits in HUC 8 07040003, the Buffalo Whitewater basin, and drains 169 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 216 NHD reaches carry the name for 35.6 miles in total — more than the 15.8 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.