Fly fishing in Maryland.
Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.
- 17waters
- 11with a live gauge
- 18designated
Photo credit
The Savage River from the Allegany Bridge, Savage River State Forest. Photo: Aneta Kaluzna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
17 fly-fishing waters in Maryland have a page here, 10 with a live USGS flow gauge and 17 with an official agency designation (such as Catch and release or Delayed Harvest).
More about Maryland
6 fly-fishing guides and 7 fly shops in Maryland are listed, unclaimed unless marked.
18 watersMost fished first
- Savage RiverTailwater · Trophy / quality trout water · Catch and release · live flow
- Beaver CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · Fly-fishing only
- Patuxent RiverTailwater · Catch and release · Fly-fishing only · live flow
- North Branch Potomac RiverTailwater · Catch and release · Delayed Harvest · live flow
- Youghiogheny RiverTailwater · Catch and release · Delayed Harvest · live flow
- Gunpowder FallsTailwater · Catch and release · live flow
- Big Hunting CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · Fly-fishing only · nearby gauge
- Morgan RunFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- North Branch Potomac RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Paint BranchFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Catoctin CreekFreestone river · Delayed Harvest · live flow
- Casselman RiverFreestone river · Delayed Harvest · live flow
- Little Hunting CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · nearby gauge
- Town CreekFreestone river · Delayed Harvest · live flow
- Little Catoctin CreekFreestone river · Delayed Harvest · nearby gauge
- Middle Patuxent RiverFreestone river · Delayed Harvest
- South Branch Patapsco RiverFreestone river · Delayed Harvest · nearby gauge
- Owens CreekFreestone river · Special-regulation trout water
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About the Maryland list
About this
17 Maryland rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into Maryland from a neighbouring state are included.
A Maryland water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.