Near you · all fifty states
What the water
is doing
where you are.
Every USGS gauge within range, pulled live. Flow, direction of travel, and water temperature — wherever in the country you happen to be standing.
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What this page will not tell you
It will not tell you whether the fishing is good. That is deliberate, and it is the difference between this page and The Water.
Those five rivers get a verdict — prime, fishable, blown out — because I have stood in them and know what the numbers mean there. A reading of 212 ft³/s is bones-out on the Gros Ventre and a trickle on the Yellowstone; the number alone means nothing without the river.
I have never seen the creek nearest to you. Printing “PRIME” beside it would be inventing knowledge I do not have, which is precisely what this site exists not to do.
So what does generalise
Temperature does. A trout is a trout in every state. Above roughly 68°F a fish played to exhaustion often dies after release no matter which drainage it lives in — that is the reasoning behind hoot owl closures, and it holds in Vermont exactly as it holds in Montana.
So the one judgment this page makes is the honest one: whether the water is cool enough to fish without killing what you release. Everything else is raw numbers and a link to the gauge.
Not every gauge measures temperature. Discharge sensors are far more common than thermometers, so plenty of rows will show a flow and no reading beside it. That gap is real, not a bug.
Sources
Flow and temperature from the USGS Water Data OGC API — provisional, subject to revision, and formally an alpha service, so expect the occasional outage. Place lookup by the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Nominatim under its usage policy. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors and CARTO.