Clear Creek
above West Fork Clear Creek, Colorado · USGS gauge 06715000
For October 18, flow is lower than usual.
The last October 18 it ran this low was 2025, at 20 ft³/s.
These readings do not say whether fish are biting, whether there is parking, or whether the season is open. The shop reports below cover what is biting.
Clear Creek reports from local shops
Each shop writes its own report. Listed here: the date on each one and the hatches and flies it names. Their words stay on their sites; follow the link to read them.
Before you drive
| Overnight | 40°F, wind 10 mph Mostly Clear |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 64°F, wind 5 to 9 mph Mostly Sunny |
| Sunday Night | 40°F, wind 5 mph Partly Cloudy |
| Monday | 62°F, wind 3 to 9 mph Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers |
How this water changes through the year
Over 22 years of record, flow on Clear Creek peaks in June, when the median runs about 311 ft³/s, and falls to its lowest in February at around 14 ft³/s. Today's 22 sits between the two. The band on the chart is where the middle 60% of years fall, so a reading inside it is ordinary for the date and one outside it is not.
Nearby monitored waters
No water here is recommended over another. Same measurements, three closest waters.
Species
Listed by Colorado CPW for Clear Creek #2: Brown Trout, Cutbow Trout, Rainbow Trout, Snake River Cutthroat Trout.
The agency's list covers CPW's Fishing Atlas reach, water code 10544; the atlas lists species per reach, not per river. CPW's own stream-gage layer joins USGS 06715000 above West Fork near Empire to water code 10544. CPW's 2022 Clear Creek survey summary puts brown trout at about 95 percent of fish from Georgetown to Golden and does not mention cutbow or Snake River cutthroat; the atlas list is printed as the agency publishes it. The agency prints no date on the list; read 2026-09-08.
Access points
| Coordinates | To gauge |
|---|---|
| 39.7519, -105.6614 · above West Fork Clear Creek USGS gauge location. Not a listed public access point; check access before you travel. | 0.0 mi |
Sources and method
- Live
- USGS gauge 06715000, CLEAR CREEK ABV WEST FORK CLEAR CREEK NR EMPIRE CO, 0.0 mi from the listed access point. Fetched 2026-10-18 07:19 UTC.
- History
- USGS daily values: flow 2005–2026, 7,920 daily values. Percentile is the share of readings within 7 days of this calendar date, across all years, below the current one (flow n=315 over 21 years).
- Rules
- Seasons, limits and licences are not on this site and are not copied from the agency that publishes them: Colorado CPW.
- Species
- Colorado CPW, Clear Creek #2, undated, read 2026-09-08.
- Shop reports
- Chosen from the organic search results for “clear creek fishing report” (Ahrefs, read 2026-10-01), keeping shops and guides and dropping social media, forums and other aggregators. Linked, not quoted, and not endorsed. Report dates, hatches and fly names read from each page 2026-10-18, by matching a fixed list of insects and patterns: a name not on the list is not shown, and a report older than 30 days shows its date only.
- Forecast
- NOAA National Weather Service, api.weather.gov, for the coordinates of the nearest access point.
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