Fly fishing in Missouri.
Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.
- 38waters
- 21with a live gauge
- 37designated

Photo credit
Fog on Lake Taneycomo, Missouri. Photo: Luke Wisley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
38 fly-fishing waters in Missouri have a page here, 19 with a live USGS flow gauge and 37 with an official agency designation (such as Agency-named bass water or Blue Ribbon).
More about Missouri
4 fly-fishing guides and 7 fly shops in Missouri are listed, unclaimed unless marked.
38 watersMost fished first
- Lake TaneycomoLake or reservoir · Tailwater trout fishery · dam release
- Eleven Point RiverFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- North Fork RiverFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · Red Ribbon · live flow
- Blue Springs CreekFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · Agency-named bass water · nearby gauge
- Current RiverFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · Designated trout water · live flow
- Little Piney CreekFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · Designated trout water · live flow
- Meramec RiverFreestone river · Red Ribbon · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Crane CreekFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · nearby gauge
- Mill CreekFreestone river · Blue Ribbon · nearby gauge
- Spring CreekFreestone river · Blue Ribbon
- Missouri RiverFreestone river · live flow
- Big Piney RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Big RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Bourbeuse RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Gasconade RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Huzzah CreekFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- James RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Joachim CreekFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Mississippi RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Salt RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Courtois CreekFreestone river · Agency-named bass water
- Elk RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · live flow
- Lake of the OzarksLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Long Branch LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Longview LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Mark Twain LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Mineral ForkFreestone river · Agency-named bass water · nearby gauge
- Montrose LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Norfork LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Osage Fork of the Gasconade RiverFreestone river · Agency-named bass water
- Pomme de Terre LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water · lake level
- Smithville LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Stockton LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Table Rock LakeLake or reservoir · Agency-named bass water
- Tenmile CreekFreestone river · Agency-named bass water
- Niangua RiverFreestone river · Designated trout water · live flow
- Roaring RiverFreestone river · Designated trout water · live flow
- Roubidoux CreekFreestone river · Designated trout water · live flow
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About the Missouri list
About this
38 Missouri 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 Missouri from a neighbouring state are included.
A Missouri 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.
