Casselman River

Type
Freestone river, Maryland (East)
Designation
Delayed Harvest
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
1 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on the Casselman River

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

The Casselman River is a freestone river in Maryland and Pennsylvania, listed as Delayed Harvest by Maryland Department of Natural Resources (Maryland Fishing Guide, eRegulations edition).

More about the Casselman River

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow. 1 guide and 1 shop nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Delayed Harvest Trout Fishing Areas (Group I and II), USGS Water Data

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Where it is

Casselman River is a freestone river in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Flow now at the gauge
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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.

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Casselman River on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Casselman River: gauges, shops and guides

Map of Casselman River with 1 USGS gauge.

Restrooms near Casselman River

Restrooms near Casselman River

Restrooms within 2 miles of Casselman 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.

Map of the restroom near Casselman River

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Map of 1 restroom near Casselman River, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

  1. Restroom

    0.6 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

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    • Free?
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    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

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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Regulations

About this

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

Official designation: Delayed Harvest

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 trout.

The water on the map

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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
56.5 mi (9.1 in MD)
Drains
592 sq mi
Drop
847 ft · 15 ft/mi
Flows into
Youghiogheny River
Watershed
Youghiogheny

Public land along it

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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.

1 of 55.1 mi on public land

  • Great Allegheny PassageOther or Unknown Local Government · 0.6 mi
  • Casselman River Conservation AreaUnknown · 0.4 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Casselman 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

  • Wilderness Voyageurs

    Ohiopyle, PA · 22 mi

    Float trips · Wade trips · Savage River

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

1 shop nearby

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.

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.

No hub within 40 miles

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

Not sponsored All videos on reading water

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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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Casselman River.

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Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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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 CASSELMAN RIVER AT GRANTSVILLE, MD. Water type is our own classification.