Fly fishing
United States
Live conditions for the rivers and lakes we cover in the United States, by state.
- States
- 24
- Rivers
- 295
- Lakes
- 77
- Fly shops
- 305
Most of what we cover in the United States is in the West: the big freestones and tailwaters of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado, the spring creeks and steelhead rivers of California, Oregon and Washington, and the desert tailwaters of Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Runoff shapes the season there, so snowpack and flow tell you more than the calendar does.
The East is newer to the site but growing: the Catskills and the Delaware tailwaters, Pennsylvania's limestoners, the Southern Appalachians, the Ozarks, Michigan's spring-fed rivers and the cold water of northern New England. Many of these fish all year, and the gauge and the water temperature matter more than the snow.