Fly fishing in Ohio.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 11waters
  • 9with a live gauge
  • 10designated
The shallow Chagrin River below a shale bluff with bare winter trees
Photo credit

The Chagrin River west of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, December 2024. Photo: EF5, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

11 fly-fishing waters in Ohio have a page here, 9 with a live USGS flow gauge and 10 with an official agency designation (such as Steelhead / salmon water or Special-regulation trout water).

More about Ohio

2 fly-fishing guides and 5 fly shops in Ohio are listed, unclaimed unless marked.

Updated

11 watersMost fished first

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About the Ohio list

About this

11 Ohio 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 Ohio from a neighbouring state are included.

A Ohio 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.

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