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Spruce Creek

Type
Spring creek, Pennsylvania (East)
Designation
Catch and release · Class A Wild Trout
USGS gauges
None on it; nearest shown
Guides
2 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on the Spruce Creek

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Spruce Creek is a spring creek in Pennsylvania, listed as Catch and release by Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

More about the Spruce Creek

The nearest USGS gauge on the same stream system is shown, labelled. 2 guides and 1 shop nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is State College, Penns Creek & Spring Creek.

Updated · Sources: Catch and Release, Artificial Lures Only, USGS Water Data

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Where it is

Spruce Creek is a spring creek in Pennsylvania. Our destination hub State College, Penns Creek & Spring Creek is 7 mi away in a straight line and lists it among its waters.

Nearest gauge (not on this water)
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Where to fish

About this

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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Pennsylvania where to fish maps

Spruce Creek on the map

About this

Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Spruce Creek: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Spruce Creek with 1 USGS gauge.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Spruce Creek

Restrooms near Spruce Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Spruce Creek 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 2 restrooms near Spruce Creek

Skip the map; every place is in the list below

Map of 2 restrooms near Spruce Creek, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

  1. The Dip

    1.4 mi away in a straight line

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

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  2. Restroom

    1.4 mi away in a straight line
    • Vault or pit toilet (mapped)
    • Public (mapped)
    • Free (mapped)
    • Wheelchair accessible (mapped)

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

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?

    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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    Photo credit

    The Little Juniata River at the 1898 Birmingham Bridge, near Birmingham, Pennsylvania (black-and-white survey photograph). Photo: Jet Lowe, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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    Photo credit

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  • Sunrise through bare trees over a misty, still pool on Penns CreekClass A Wild TroutRepresentative photo · not Logan Branch
    Photo credit

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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.

2 official designations

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.

  • Catch and release

    On the Catch and Release, Artificial Lures Only list (Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, read 2026-10-24). All waters with this designation

    • Section 3: UPST BNDY PFBC PROPERTY (INDIAN CAVERN) to DNST BNDY PFBC PROPERTY (INDIAN CAVERN)
  • Class A Wild Trout

    On the Class A Wild Trout Waters list (Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, read 2026-10-24). All waters with this designation

    • Section 1: Road south of Rocksprings to Centre and Huntingdon County line
    • Section 3: Upstream boundary of the PFBC property to Downstream boundary of the PFBC property (Indian Caverns)
    • Section 5: Upstream boundary PSU experimental Catch and Release area to lower boundary PSU experimental Catch and Release area

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
16.5 mi
Drains
109 sq mi
Drop
435 ft · 26.4 ft/mi
Flows into
Little Juniata River
Watershed
Upper Juniata

Guides and shops near Spruce Creek

About this

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

Guides

  • Juniata Troutfitters

    Tyrone, PA · 11 mi

    Little Juniata River

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

  • The Feathered Hook

    Coburn, PA · 33 mi

    Euro nymphing · Beginners & lessons · Penns & Fishing

    • Unclaimed

    Nearby

All Pennsylvania guides

1 shop nearby

All Pennsylvania 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

About this

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

  • Brook trout1
  • Brown trout1
  • Musky1
  • Rainbow trout1
  • Smallmouth bass1

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Catskills and the Northeast
About this chart

8 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.

  1. January: no charted hatch
  2. February: no charted hatch
  3. March: no charted hatch
  4. April: 3 charted hatches
  5. May: 2 charted hatches
  6. June: 1 charted hatch
  7. July: 1 charted hatch
  8. August: 1 charted hatch
  9. September: 2 charted hatches
  10. October: 1 charted hatch
  11. November: no charted hatch
  12. December: no charted hatch

Blue Quill (April) · Hendrickson (April) · Quill Gordon (April) · Green drake (May) · Mayflies (best hatches) (May) · Mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies (June to September) · and 2 more on the chart

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.

State College, Penns Creek & Spring Creek

About this

State College sits in the ridge-and-valley country of central Pennsylvania, with Spring Creek through town, Penns Creek over the ridge to the south-east and the Little Juniata to the south-west.

Destination hub · 7 mi away in a straight line

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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

About this

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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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: a point on the mapped channel of “Spruce Creek”, halfway along its length in Pennsylvania, from the USGS high-resolution hydrography (NHDPlus HR), read 4 Nov 2026. It marks the water, not a particular access or reach. Water type is our own classification.