Yellow Creek

Type
Freestone river, Pennsylvania (East)
Designation
Class A Wild Trout
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
None listed
Shops
2 nearby

Today on the Yellow Creek

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Yellow Creek is a freestone river in Pennsylvania, listed as Class A Wild Trout by Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

More about the Yellow Creek

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow; Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission lists 1 species. 2 shops nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Class A Wild Trout Waters, Class A Wild Trout Waters, USGS Water Data

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Yellow Creek is a freestone river in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has 4 waters named Yellow Creek in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the stream whose mouth is in Indiana County, the one the agency list names.

Flow now at the gauge
Reading the gauges…

Follow Yellow Creek for flow alerts

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.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Yellow Creek on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Yellow Creek: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Yellow Creek with 1 USGS gauge, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Restrooms near Yellow Creek

Restrooms near Yellow Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Yellow 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.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

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

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    Little Mahoning Creek

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Sources Pennsylvania where to fish mapsOverture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the USGS gauge Yellow Creek near Homer City, PA.

The map shows USGS gauges (tap one for its flow reading), and shops and guides within 40 miles that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

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: Class A Wild Trout

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

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.

Whole Yellow Creek, not only this reach.

Length
25.8 mi (24.4 in PA)
Drains
66.3 sq mi
Drop
814 ft · 31.6 ft/mi
Flows into
Two Lick Creek
Watershed
Conemaugh

Public land along it

About this

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 of the whole Yellow Creek. 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.

5.7 of 24.4 mi on public land

  • Yellow Creek State ParkState Park and Recreation · 4.2 mi
  • State Game Land 273State Fish and Wildlife · 1.5 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Yellow 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

No guide within 40 miles yet.

2 shops nearby

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. 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

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the state agency

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

Plan a trip here

About this

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

Fish these abroad

About this

Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like the Yellow Creek? Same fish, overseas.

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Fish it when it's winter here

Southern seasons open while ours close.

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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)

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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.

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Watch: nymphing basics

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Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.

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Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Yellow Creek.

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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: the USGS gauge Yellow Creek near Homer City, PA. Water type is our own classification.