Flat Creek

Type
Freestone river, Wyoming (West)
Designation
Designated trout water
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
2 name it
Shops
7 nearby

Today on the Flat Creek

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Flat Creek is a freestone river in Wyoming, listed as Designated trout water by Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

More about the Flat Creek

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow. 7 guides and 7 shops nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Jackson Hole.

Updated · Sources: Yellow streams (WGFD stream classification: Yellow, 50-299 lbs trout/mile), USGS Water Data

Flat Creek in Jackson reflecting clouds, with a ski hill's runs on the mountain behind
Photo credit

Flat Creek in Jackson, Wyoming. Photo: Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

Flat Creek is a freestone river in Wyoming. Our destination hub Jackson Hole is 2 mi away in a straight line and lists it among its waters.

Flow now at the gauge
Reading the gauges…

Follow Flat 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

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.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Flat Creek on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Flat Creek: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

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

Restrooms near Flat Creek

Restrooms near Flat Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Flat 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 3 restrooms near Flat Creek

Skip the map; every place is in the list below

Map of 3 restrooms near Flat Creek, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

  1. Restroom

    0.9 mi away in a straight line
    • Flush toilet (mapped)
    • Free (mapped)
    • Wheelchair accessible (mapped)
    • Changing table (mapped)

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

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · open to everyone? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Open to everyone?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  2. Restroom

    1.3 mi away in a straight line
    • Customers only (mapped)
    • Hours: 12:30-11:00 (mapped)

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

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

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  3. Restroom

    1.3 mi away in a straight line
    • Customers only (mapped)
    • Hours: 12:30-11:00 (mapped)

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

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

    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.

More water near Flat Creek

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.

Official designation: Designated trout water

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.

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.

  • National Elk RefugeU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · restricted
  • Teton National ForestForest Service
  • South Park Wildlife Habitat Management AreaState Fish and Wildlife · restricted
  • Smith's ParkCounty Land
  • Valley Springs ParkCounty Land

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Flat 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.

2 guides name it on their website

Guides

7 shops 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

About this

What 7 nearby guide websites mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 7 nearby guide websites

  • Cutthroat trout7
  • Brown trout5
  • Rainbow trout5
  • Brook trout3
  • Bass1
  • Catfish1
  • Chinook salmon1
  • Coho salmon1

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Northern Rockies
About this chart

5 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

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

Mother's Day caddis (Grannom) (May) · Salmonfly (May to June) · Salmonfly (May to July) · Salmonfly (July) · Trico (August to September)

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.

Jackson Hole

About this

Jackson sits in the valley of the upper Snake River below the Tetons, with the Gros Ventre and Hoback rivers joining the Snake nearby and the Salt and Green rivers over the passes.

Destination hub · 2 mi away in a straight line

Gear checklist

About this

What to bring on a guided float fishing trip: rain gear, polarized sunglasses, sun protection, a dry bag and your license. Most guides supply rods and flies. Estimated prices and where to buy.

A woman rows a drift boat while a man stands in the bow and casts

Guided float trip

Usually supplied by the guide; a 9′ 5–6 weight if you bring your own · Trout on most western float rivers

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (5)

Watch: reading a trout stream

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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.

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

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 11 sources and dates

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 FLAT CREEK BELOW CACHE CREEK, NEAR JACKSON, WY. Water type is our own classification.