Rock Creek

Type
Freestone river, Wyoming (West)
Designation
Red Ribbon
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
None listed
Shops
None listed

Today on the Rock Creek

No live reading for this water
Why there is no reading

Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Rock Creek is a freestone river in Wyoming, listed as Red Ribbon by Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

More about the Rock Creek

Wyoming Game and Fish Department lists 1 species.

Updated · Sources: Red Ribbon streams (WGFD stream classification: Red, 300-599 lbs trout/mile), Red Ribbon streams (WGFD stream classification: Red, 300-599 lbs trout/mile)

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

Rock Creek is a freestone river in Wyoming. Wyoming has 25 waters named Rock Creek in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the stream whose mouth is in Park County, the one the agency list names.

No real-time gauge

No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Rock Creek or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Rock Creek

About these readings

Nothing live is published for this water; the note below says what we checked.

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.

Restrooms near Rock Creek

Restrooms near Rock Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Rock 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

    The Snake River in Grand Teton National Park. Photo: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Crazy Creek.

    Crazy Creek

    Wyoming · about 2 mi

    Rainbow trout

  • The Wind River valley above Dubois with red badlands and mountainsBlue RibbonRepresentative photo · not Little Bear Creek
    Photo credit

    The Wind River valley above Dubois, Wyoming. Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little Bear Creek.

    Little Bear Creek

    Wyoming · about 13 mi

  • The Gros Ventre River running through sagebrush flats and cottonwoods in Jackson HoleRed RibbonRepresentative photo · not Sunlight Creek
    Photo credit

    The Gros Ventre River in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Photo: Daniel Mayer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Sunlight Creek.

    Sunlight Creek

    Wyoming · about 22 mi

    Brook trout

  • Flat Creek in Jackson reflecting clouds, with a ski hill's runs on the mountain behindBlue RibbonRepresentative photo · not Clarks Fork Yellowstone River
    Photo credit

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    Clarks Fork Yellowstone River

    Wyoming · about 25 mi

    Rainbow, brown & brook trout

  • Brown autumn grass and a dry hillside in the open upper Hoback River valley near Bondurant, WyomingFreestone riverRepresentative photo · not Lamar River
    Photo credit

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    Lamar River

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    Photo credit

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    Jones Creek

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    Cutthroat trout

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: Red Ribbon

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 2026-11-05) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Whole Rock Creek, not only this reach.

Length
3.1 mi
Drains
4.09 sq mi
Drop
813 ft · 260 ft/mi
Flows into
Clarks Fork Yellowstone River
Watershed
Clarks Fork Yellowstone

Guides and shops near Rock 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.

Shops nearby

No shop nearby yet.

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: 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)

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 Rock Creek? Same fish, overseas.

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    Photo credit

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    Sava Dolinka

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    Same fish: brook trout · also a freestone river

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    Photo credit

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    Clarence Lagoon

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Fish it when it's winter here

Southern seasons open while ours close.

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    Lago Nahuel Huapi

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Gear checklist

About this

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

Big western rivers (wade fishing)

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

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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

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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 Rock Creek.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 7 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: a point on the mapped channel of “Rock Creek”, halfway along its length in Wyoming, from the USGS high-resolution hydrography (NHDPlus HR), read 5 Nov 2026. It marks the water, not a particular access or reach. Water type is our own classification.