Brokenstraw Creek
The valley creek: stocked and wild-brown trout water up top that melts into smallmouth water at the Allegheny.
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The valley creek: stocked and wild-brown trout water up top that melts into smallmouth water at the Allegheny.
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The trophy river reborn: 8.5 miles of special-regulation big-brown water above Ridgway and wild-and-scenic river below.
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The big river of the west shore: 30 miles of Pennsylvania steelhead water that fishes a day behind the lake.
Live USGS gauge 04213000
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The quiet west-side creek: log jams, wild fish mixed with stockers, and the slowest clear on the shore.
Proxy gauge 04213152 — labeled on the page
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Pennsylvania's largest Lake Erie tributary: 30 miles of shale-bed steelhead water with room to roam.
Proxy gauge 04213075 — labeled on the page
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The wild one: 4.77 miles of Delayed Harvest water through National Forest, on the region's most storied wild-trout creek.
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The Volant gorge stream: 2.7 miles of Delayed Harvest water ending at a covered bridge, and a fly shop on Main Street.
Ungauged — qualitative windows, labeled on the page
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The birthplace of oil is a trout stream now: Grannom hatches in April and Delayed Harvest water through Oil Creek State Park.
Live USGS gauge 03020500
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The slow, swampy loner of the west shore: worst color the longest, and it rewards the last angler standing.
Ungauged — qualitative windows, labeled on the page
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The dam river: a trout tailwater at Shenango Dam stacked on top of a smallmouth, walleye, and muskie river.
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The slow-clearing east-side creek with a beach at its mouth - fish it on day three, not day one.
Proxy gauge 04213152 — labeled on the page
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The gorge creek: boulder whitewater water with a half-mile of fly-fishing-only catch-and-release in McConnells Mill State Park.
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The big-forest creek: 40 miles of Allegheny National Forest trout water ending in a dam outflow and a lake.
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The creek you may not fish - and the beach that times the whole west shore. Trout Run is the run's starting gun.
Proxy gauge 04213152 — labeled on the page
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Bluestone falls water in Harborcreek: the smallest, prettiest, slowest-clearing of the east-side steelhead creeks.
Proxy gauge 04213152 — labeled on the page
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The east side's big creek: a PFBC easement opened 9,000 feet of former club water, and the pool below the falls holds hundreds of fish.
Proxy gauge 04213152 — labeled on the page
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The gauged standard: the most instrumented, most fished steelhead water in Pennsylvania.
Live USGS gauge 04213152
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Pittsburgh's backyard trout stream: a 1.4-mile Delayed Harvest section in Glenshaw, a year-round trout lake in North Park — and a real USGS gauge sitting on the creek itself.
Live USGS gauge 03049807 — on the creek
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Two creeks in one: a 1.9-mile Delayed Harvest section hidden behind a golf course up in Gibsonia, and a lower creek past a 59-acre park to a warmwater mouth at Harmar — with no gauge on it anywhere.
Ungauged — labeled Pine Creek proxy on the page
Live conditions & guide Buy the Deep-Dive Guide — $9.99Gauges are USGS NWIS stations read live in your browser. Proxy gauges and ungauged creeks are labeled as such on each page — no verdict is ever invented for water that has no gauge. Guide data updated 2026-10-14.
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