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Rocklick Branch, West Virginia

0.9 mapped river miles, draining 2 square miles, in the Coal basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 30.0 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.

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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 30.0 miles away, at Kanawha River At Kanawha Falls, Wv — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

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, 30.0 miles away; it is a reading of that water, not this one.

Questions about this river

• Rocklick Branch fishing report — what it reads right now
• When to fish Rocklick Branch — hatches, seasons and temperature
• Rocklick Branch fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

WV DEP classification

WV DEP classifies this water as Trout waters — part of an 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 →

Species

WV DEP designates this as trout water — Trout waters — part of an 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.

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

1 named stream meets this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• Pond Fork 24.6 mi · RM 0.0

Rocklick Branch sits in HUC 8 05050009, the Coal basin, and drains 2 square miles, Strahler order 1 at the mouth. 2 NHD reaches carry the name for 0.9 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.

• James Branch 0.5 mi
• Jasper Workman Branch 0.8 mi
• Grapevine Branch 1.3 mi
• Workman Branch 1.5 mi
• Old House Branch 1.7 mi
• Cow Creek 1.8 mi