Fly fishing near Salem, South Carolina

Lake Jocassee's calm water with wooded mountains on the far shore
Photo credit

Lake Jocassee from a canoe, South Carolina. Photo: TimothyJ from Atlanta, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

16 waters with a page lie within 25 miles of Salem, South Carolina, in a straight line; the nearest are Cheohee Creek (5 mi), Corbin Creek (6 mi) and Lake Jocassee (7 mi).

More about Salem

1 fly-fishing guide is in Salem or within 15 miles, unclaimed unless marked on their page. The nearest destination hub is Asheville & Western North Carolina, 54 miles away.

Updated · Sources: USGS GNIS (town point)

16 waters near Salem

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. Cheohee CreekFreestone river · 5 mi · Catch and release
  2. Corbin CreekFreestone river · 6 mi · Catch and release
  3. Lake JocasseeLake or reservoir · 7 mi · Agency-named bass water
  4. Whitewater RiverFreestone river · 7 mi · Special-regulation trout water
  5. Howard CreekFreestone river · 8 mi · Catch and release
  6. Eastatoe CreekFreestone river · 10 mi · Catch and release
  7. Whitewater RiverFreestone river · 12 mi · Wild Trout Water
  8. Devils Fork CreekFreestone river · 15 mi · Catch and release
  9. Chauga RiverFreestone river · 17 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  10. Hoods CreekFreestone river · 18 mi · Special-regulation trout water
  11. Chattooga RiverFreestone river · 19 mi · Catch and release · live USGS flow
  12. East Fork French Broad RiverFreestone river · 20 mi · Delayed Harvest
  13. Flat CreekFreestone river · 22 mi · Catch and release
  14. Matthews CreekFreestone river · 24 mi · Special-regulation trout water
  15. Tanasee CreekFreestone river · 25 mi · Wild Trout Water
  16. Wolf CreekFreestone river · 25 mi · Wild Trout Water

Fly-fishing guides nearby

About this

Guides and outfitters that name Salem as their town or are mapped within 15 miles. Confirm licences, rates and dates directly; listings are unclaimed unless their page says claimed.

Nearest destination hub

Asheville & Western North Carolina · 54 mi

Where this comes from

Sources

Town point: USGS Geographic Names Information System (town points) (U.S. Geological Survey, public domain), feature 1230283, Oconee 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.