Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Photo: M. Nall, National Park Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Waters, guides, shops and rules around each town.
Clark Fork River · Bitterroot River · Blackfoot River · Rock Creek
Listings within 60 miles of Missoula, straight-line.
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Madison River · Gallatin River · Yellowstone River · Jefferson River · +2
Listings within 60 miles of Bozeman, straight-line.
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Madison River · Ennis Lake · Ruby River · Beaverhead River · +2
Listings within 60 miles of Ennis, straight-line.
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Beaverkill · Willowemoc Creek · East Branch Delaware River · West Branch Delaware River · +3
Listings within 60 miles of Roscoe, straight-line.
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Penns Creek · Spring Creek · Little Juniata River · Fishing Creek · +2
Listings within 60 miles of State College, straight-line.
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French Broad River · Davidson River · North Mills River · South Toe River · +3
Listings within 60 miles of Asheville, straight-line.
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Au Sable River · Manistee River · Boardman River · Black River
Listings within 60 miles of Grayling, straight-line.
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Timber Coulee Creek · Kickapoo River · La Crosse River · Big Green River · +1
Listings within 60 miles of Viroqua, straight-line.
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Pere Marquette River · Little South Branch Pere Marquette River · Little Manistee River · Pine River · +2
Listings within 60 miles of Baldwin, straight-line.
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Little River · Little Pigeon River · Oconaluftee River · Deep Creek · +4
Listings within 60 miles of Gatlinburg, straight-line.
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White River · North Fork River · Norfork Tailwater · Bull Shoals Lake · +2
Listings within 60 miles of Cotter, straight-line.
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Florida Bay · Everglades National Park backcountry · Biscayne Bay · Keys oceanside flats · +1
Listings within 90 miles of Islamorada, straight-line.
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United Kingdom, Iceland, Argentina, Belize, New Zealand, The Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Slovenia, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico and Norway: the countries and hubs with the most listings come first. Guides, lodges and motherships are listed from each business's own website; license and rules links are the country's or province's official pages; no price is estimated for these hubs. Where we have not listed a lodge yet, the card says so instead of showing a bare zero.
Pick a town, see the waters around it, the guides and shops we list within a set distance of the town (shown on each card, measured in a straight line), the license and rules pages, how to get there and what else to see. Then plan the trip and budget it without a single invented price.
Each hub is built from the guide and shop directories we already publish, the gear checklists and curated videos on this site, and links to official sources: state fish and wildlife agencies, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, wildlife refuges, state parks, national and provincial agencies abroad and official tourism offices. Guide and shop counts are listings within the stated straight-line radius of the town, not endorsements; the totals at the top count each listing once, even where two hubs' radii overlap. Seasons and species, where shown, are what nearby guides state on their own websites. Nothing on these pages reports conditions, promises fish, quotes a guide’s rate or grants access to any water; check the linked agency pages and confirm with the people you book with.
