East Fork Sevier River

Type
Freestone river, Utah (West)
Designation
Blue Ribbon · Featured sport-fishing water
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
1 nearby
Shops
1 nearby

Today on the East Fork Sevier River

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

The East Fork Sevier River is a freestone river in Utah, listed as Blue Ribbon by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

More about the East Fork Sevier River

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources lists 2 species, including brook trout and brown trout. 1 guide and 1 shop nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Blue Ribbon Fisheries, Fish Utah hotspot waters (DWR fishing finder), USGS Water Data

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Where it is

East Fork Sevier River is a freestone river in Utah.

Flow now at the gauge
Reading the gauges…

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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.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

East Fork Sevier River on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of East Fork Sevier River: gauges, shops and guides

Map of East Fork Sevier River with 1 USGS gauge.

Restrooms near East Fork Sevier River

Restrooms near East Fork Sevier River

Restrooms within 2 miles of East Fork Sevier 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.

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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Sources Utah Walk-in Access propertiesOverture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the Blue Ribbon Fisheries published by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

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

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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.

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
91.6 mi (80.8 in UT)
Drains
1,230 sq mi
Drop
2,088 ft · 22.8 ft/mi
Flows into
Sevier River
Watershed
East Fork Sevier, Upper Sevier

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. 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.

47.4 of 80.8 mi on public land

  • State Trust Lands Johns Valley BlockState Land Board · 16.3 mi
  • Dixie National ForestForest Service · 15.5 mi
  • Richfield Field OfficeBureau of Land Management · 8 mi
  • Black Canyon State Wildlife AreaState Fish and Wildlife · 2.3 mi · restricted
  • The State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration 5271State Land Board · 1.7 mi
  • Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 496State Fish and Wildlife · 1.7 mi · restricted
  • Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources 69State Fish and Wildlife · 1.7 mi · restricted
  • Kanab Field OfficeBureau of Land Management · 0.2 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near East Fork Sevier River

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

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.

Species and hatches

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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: Southwest and Colorado
About this chart

1 hatch charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

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

Green drake (June to July)

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

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Gear checklist

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A wade-fishing checklist for big western trout rivers: a 9 ft 5–6 weight outfit, nymph, dry and streamer setups, waders, boots and a wading staff, with estimated prices by tier and where to buy.

A woman in waders and a sun hat wades a broad river and casts, bluffs on the far bank

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9′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating line · Rainbow and brown trout, whitefish

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Fish Tales

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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 Blue Ribbon Fisheries published by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Water type is our own classification.