Fly fishing near Columbia, Pennsylvania

An angler wading Yellow Breeches Creek at Boiling Springs between green, shaded banks
Photo credit

Fishing on Yellow Breeches Creek at Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. Photo: Staecker, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

7 waters with a page lie within 25 miles of Columbia, Pennsylvania, in a straight line; the nearest are Donegal Creek (4 mi), Codorus Creek (8 mi) and Conewago Creek (12 mi).

More about Columbia

1 fly shop is in Columbia or within 15 miles, unclaimed unless marked on their page. The nearest destination hub is Carlisle & the Cumberland Valley, 38 miles away.

Updated · Sources: USGS GNIS (town point)

7 waters near Columbia

About this

Straight-line miles from the town's point in the USGS Geographic Names Information System to the nearest mapped point or gauge on each water; the road is longer. Each page has the live flow where a gauge reports, the agency's rules and access map, and who guides it.

Within 25 miles, straight line

  1. Donegal CreekFreestone river · 4 mi · Catch and release
  2. Codorus CreekFreestone river · 8 mi · Special-regulation trout water · live USGS flow
  3. Conewago CreekFreestone river · 12 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  4. Muddy CreekFreestone river · 21 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  5. Quittapahilla CreekFreestone river · 22 mi · Delayed Harvest · live USGS flow
  6. West Branch Octoraro CreekFreestone river · 24 mi · Catch and release
  7. Yellow Breeches CreekSpring creek · 25 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow

Fly shops nearby

About this

Shops that name Columbia as their town or publish a location within 15 miles. Facts come from each shop's own website; listings are unclaimed unless their page says claimed.

Nearest destination hub

Carlisle & the Cumberland Valley · 38 mi

Where this comes from

Sources

Town point: USGS Geographic Names Information System (town points) (U.S. Geological Survey, public domain), feature 1213954, Lancaster County. Water positions, gauges, designations and species: the sources listed on each water page. Guides and shops: their own websites, as listed on each page. Nothing here grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing here grants access. Check maps, signs and landowners.