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Red Run, West Virginia
5.6 mapped river miles, draining 10 square miles, in the Cheat basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 7.4 miles away, and it is the only temperature evidence on this page — what WV DEP publishes is the Category B-2 trout water designation below — WV DEP's finding under 47 CSR 2 that a stream sustains a year-round trout population, which is a statement about the fishery rather than about the temperature it runs at.
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 7.4 miles away, at Shavers Fork At Bemis, Wv — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
The pills above go to USGS. These are this site's pages for the same gauges — a thirty-day chart, the monthly means, the record, and today's reading against the five-year normal for today: 03068000.
Thermal classification
There isn't one. WV DEP publishes no temperature classification for any water in West Virginia. What it publishes is the Category B-2 trout water designation below — WV DEP's finding under 47 CSR 2 that a stream sustains a year-round trout population, which is a statement about the fishery rather than about the temperature it runs at — so this river draws grey on the map above, and grey here means unmeasured rather than warm. The only temperature on this page is the live reading from the nearest USGS gauge, 7.4 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.
Questions about this river
- Red Run fishing report — what it reads right now
- When to fish Red Run — hatches, seasons and temperature
- How to get to Red Run — access, parking and public land
- Red Run fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
WV DEP classification
WV DEP classifies this water as Trout waters — whole assessment unit. 47 CSR 2 defines trout waters as water that sustains a year-round trout population, and excludes by name water stocked every year that does not hold trout over — so this is a finding about a wild or holdover fishery rather than about the stocking truck. It is not the season and creel rules — those are WVDNR's, change yearly, and live with that agency.
WV DEP water quality standards, 47 CSR 2 →
Public land on the river
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 1,020,142 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Monongahela National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 949,934 |
| Blackwater Wildlife Management Area | U.S. Forest Service | 62,342 |
| Canaan Loop Roadless Area | designation overlay | 7,866 |
Species
WV DEP designates this as trout water — Trout waters — whole assessment unit — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Hatches on this water
56 insects are recorded from the Virginia mountains, across the state line. No insect records in this dataset are filed under West Virginia, so these are the nearest ones — the same landscape and the same water, on the other side of the border, and not a survey of this stream or even of this state. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Black Stonefly Allocapnia / Capnia spp. |
January–April | 34–46°F | #16–18 |
| 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 |
| Quill Gordon Epeorus pleuralis |
March–April | 42–52°F | #12–14 |
| Blackfly Simulium spp. |
April–June | 40–65°F | #18–22 |
| Blue Quill Paraleptophlebia adoptiva |
April–May | 44–56°F | #16–18 |
| 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 |
| Little Black Caddis Chimarra atterima |
April–May | 46–58°F | #16–20 |
| 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 |
And 42 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.
- Dry Fork 39.7 mi · RM 0.0
- North Fork Red Run 2.8 mi · RM 5.6
- South Fork Red Run 1.7 mi · RM 5.6
Red Run sits in HUC 8 05020004, the Cheat basin, and drains 10 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 21 NHD reaches carry the name for 10.6 miles in total — more than the 5.6 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.