2024-2025 North Carolina Inland Fishing, Hunting & Trapping…

Inland Fishing Regulations AND INFORMATION

• South Harper Creek • Webb Prong Buncombe County CATCH AND RELEASE/ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES ONLY TROUT WATERS • Carter Creek (game land portion) HATCHERY SUPPORTED TROUT WATERS • Bent Creek (headwaters to N.C. Arboretum boundary line) • Cane Creek (headwaters to S.R. 3138 bridge) • Corner Rock Creek (Little Andy Creek to confluence with Walker Branch) • Dillingham Creek (Corner Rock Creek to Ivy Creek) • Ivy Creek (Ivy River) (Dillingham Creek to U.S. 19-23 bridge) • Lake Powhatan • Reems Creek (Sugar Camp Fork to U.S. 19-23 bridge, except where posted against trespassing) • Rich B ranch (downstream from the confluence with Rocky Branch) • Stony Creek • Swannanoa River (S.R. 2702 bridge near Ridgecrest to Wood Avenue bridge [inter- section of N.C. 81 and U.S. 74A in Asheville], except where posted against trespassing)

HATCHERY SUPPORTED TROUT WATERS • Beaver Creek (N.C. 221 to confluence of Beaver Creek and South Beaver Creek) • Big Horse Creek (Mud Creek at S.R. 1363 to S.R. 1324 bridge) • Big Laurel Creek (S.R. 1315 bridge to conflu- ence with North Fork New River) • Buffalo Creek (S.R. 1133 bridge to N.C. 194- 88 bridge) • Cranberry Creek (Alleghany Co. line to South Fork New River) • Nathans Creek • North Fork New River (Watauga Co. line to Sharp Dam) • Old Fields Creek (N.C. 221 to South Fork New River) • Peak Creek (upstream property boundary of NCDA-NCSU Upper Mountain Research Station to Trout Lake, except Blue Ridge Parkway waters) • Roan Creek • Three Top Creek Avery County CATCH AND RELEASE/ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES ONLY TROUT WATERS • Elk River (portion on Lees-McRae College property, excluding the millpond) • Lost Cove Creek (game land portion, exclud- ing Gragg Prong and Rockhouse Creek) • Wilson Creek (game land portion)

HATCHERY SUPPORTED TROUT WATERS • Boyde Coffey Lake • Elk River (S.R. 1305 crossing immediately up- stream of Big Falls to the Tennessee state line) • Linville River (S.R. 1504 to the Blue Ridge Parkway boundary line, except where posted against trespassing) • Milltimber Creek • North Toe River—upper (Watauga St. to Roby Shoemaker Wetlands and Family Recreation- al Park, except where posted against tres- passing) • North Toe River—lower (S.R. 1164 to Mitch- ell Co. line, except where posted against trespassing)

• Squirrel Creek • Wildcat Lake

WILD TROUT WATERS • Birchfield Creek • Cow Camp Creek • Cranberry Creek (headwaters to U.S. 19E/N.C. 194 bridge)

• Gragg Prong • Horse Creek • Kentucky Creek • North Harper Creek

• Plumtree Creek • Roaring Creek • Rockhouse Creek • Shawneehaw Creek (portion adjacent to Banner Elk Greenway)

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