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Perdido River

Type
Freestone river, Florida (South)
Designation
Agency-named bass water
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
2 nearby
Shops
4 nearby

Today on the Perdido River

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

The Perdido River is a freestone river in Florida and Alabama, listed as Agency-named bass water by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

More about the Perdido River

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow. 2 guides and 4 shops nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Special Bag and Length Limits: waters with special black bass limits, USGS Water Data

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Where it is

Perdido River is a freestone river in Florida and Alabama.

Flow now at the gauge
Reading the gauges…

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Pick one of its USGS gauges and hear from us when the flow moves into or out of its usual range for the date, or crosses a flow you set. We check the public USGS reading every 2 hours and email only when it crosses, at most once every 6 hours. Flow alone is not a fishing forecast or a safety call.

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Where to fish

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Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Florida public boat ramp finder

Perdido River on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Perdido River: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Perdido River with 1 USGS gauge, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Perdido River

Restrooms near Perdido River

Restrooms within 2 miles of Perdido River in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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    Photo credit

    The Tombigbee River at Demopolis, Alabama. Photo: Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Perdido River.

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Sources Florida public boat ramp finderOverture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the USGS gauge PERDIDO RIVER AT BARRINEAU PARK, FL.

The map shows USGS gauges (tap one for its flow reading), and shops and guides within 40 miles that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

Regulations

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Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Agency-named bass water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under bass.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Length
65.6 mi (59.1 in FL)
Drains
915 sq mi
Drop
186 ft · 2.8 ft/mi
Watershed
Perdido

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-05) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped channel. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

5.7 of 61.3 mi on public land

  • Perdido River Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Land · 2.8 mi · restricted
  • Perdido River Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Natural Resources · 2.3 mi · restricted
  • Perdido River - Longleaf Hills TractState Fish and Wildlife · 0.3 mi · restricted
  • Betty And Crawford Rainwater Perdido River Nature*Non-Governmental Organization · 0.1 mi
  • Perdido River-Longleaf Hills Tract- Forest Legacy*State Fish and Wildlife · 0.1 mi · restricted

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Perdido River

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Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

  • FlyWay Charters

    Daphne, AL · 22 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • Terrapin Charters

    Pensacola, FL · 28 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

All Florida guides

4 shops nearby

All Florida shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

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What 2 nearby guide websites mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 2 nearby guide websites

  • Tarpon2
  • Trout2
  • Bass1
  • Tuna1
How we put this together

Named by guides nearby (within 40 miles), counted from the species each guide lists on its own site. No agency page we hold lists species for this water.

Plan a trip here

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None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

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Gear checklist

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A practical checklist for fly fishing small mountain trout streams: a short 3–4 weight rod, light line, a few buoyant dries and simple wet-wading gear, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands on a boulder at the edge of a fast forest stream and fishes the run

Small mountain streams

7′6″–8′6″ rod, 3–4 weight, floating line · Brook, cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout

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Videos for this water (5)

Watch: reading a trout stream

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Seams, shelves and soft water, shown on real rivers.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • How I Learned to Read Water (Fly Fishing)Embedded from YouTube · Mad River Outfitters · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • How To Read The Water with Tom RosenbauerEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Reading the Water to Successfully Locate TroutEmbedded from YouTube · Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

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Watch: nymphing basics

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Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • 90° Nymph RigEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Casting with an Indicator & Better Nymphing TechniquesEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on nymphing

Fish Tales

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Sources for this page

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A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the USGS gauge PERDIDO RIVER AT BARRINEAU PARK, FL. Water type is our own classification.