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THE ATLAS · PA · SPRING CREEK

Spring Creek (Pennsylvania)

The best month to fish the Spring Creek (Pennsylvania) is January. The month to avoid is March. Right now, in August, it is worth going.

  1. January: 71 out of 100
  2. February: 71 out of 100
  3. March: 39 out of 100
  4. April: 45 out of 100
  5. May: 54 out of 100
  6. June: 71 out of 100
  7. July: 71 out of 100
  8. August: 71 out of 100
  9. September: 71 out of 100
  10. October: 71 out of 100
  11. November: 68 out of 100
  12. December: 71 out of 100
AUGUST: GO, WITH CAVEATS71/100

This gauge does not report water temperature, so the check that would rule out water too warm to fight a fish in cannot run for this month. Treat the score as flow and season only, and ask a local shop about temperature before you travel in warm weather.

WHERE IT IS
LOADING THE MAP…

GAUGE 01546500 · COLOURED BY AUGUST

THE NUMBERS

Month by month

MONTHTYPICAL FLOWRANGE (P20–P80)WATERAIR HIGHRAINSCORE
January94 cfs65–14571
February96 cfs74–14571
March134 cfs111–18539
April138 cfs107–15645
May128 cfs87–18354
June106 cfs83–13371
July86 cfs73–11271
AugustNOW72 cfs62–9171
September63 cfs51–9371
October66 cfs53–8171
November68 cfs50–10768
December88 cfs67–11571
WHERE THESE NUMBERS COME FROM

Flow and water temperature are medians of the monthly means reported by USGS gauge 01546500 over 2006-2025. Air temperature and precipitation are ten-year normals from Open-Meteo at this river’s gauge coordinates.

The window is deliberate. USGS’s own full-record statistics for a dammed river reach back before the dam — at Lees Ferry, to 1922, forty-one years before Glen Canyon closed — and describe a river that no longer exists.

Flow is scored against this river’s own fishable band of 72106 cfs. There is no universal band: 8,000 cfs is low water on a big tailwater and a flood on a spring creek.

Water temperature is a ceiling rather than a weight. Above about 68°F a trout that is fought and released frequently dies anyway, so no month above that line is scored as worth booking, however good its flow.

IF THIS MONTH IS WRONG

The Spring Creek (Pennsylvania) is at its best in January, flows near 94 cfs.

← RIVERS GOING WELL IN AUGUST

Regulations, licences and access change without notice and are not reproduced here as fact — check the state agency before you travel. A median describes twenty years; it does not forecast your week. Source: U.S. Geological Survey, National Water Information System.