Rocky River
near Berea, Ohio · USGS gauge 04201500
For October 18, flow is higher than usual.
The last October 18 it ran this high was 2025, at 371 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.
Held back as out of date: water temperature last reported 43 days ago. A gauge can stay listed long after its sensor stops.
Rocky River 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 | 33°F, wind 6 mph Areas Of Frost |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 61°F, wind 8 mph Areas Of Frost then Sunny |
| Sunday Night | 38°F, wind 7 mph Clear |
| Monday | 64°F, wind 1 to 5 mph Sunny |
How this water changes through the year
Over 22 years of record, flow on Rocky River peaks in March, when the median runs about 340 ft³/s, and falls to its lowest in September at around 62 ft³/s. Today's 227 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.
Species
Listed by Ohio DNR for Rocky River: Steelhead Trout.
The agency's list covers the whole river as a Lake Erie tributary; ODNR publishes no full species list for it, and steelhead is the one species the agency names. USGS 04201500 at Berea is on the same river below the Lagoon Dam reach ODNR maps. The agency prints no date on the list; read 2026-09-08.
Access points
| Coordinates | To gauge |
|---|---|
| 41.4075, -81.8826 · near Berea USGS gauge location. Not a listed public access point; check access before you travel. | 0.0 mi |
Sources and method
- Live
- USGS gauge 04201500, Rocky River near Berea OH, 0.0 mi from the listed access point. Fetched 2026-10-18 07:19 UTC.
- History
- USGS daily values: flow 2005–2026, 7,940 daily values; water temperature 2023–2026, 905 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: Ohio DNR.
- Species
- Ohio DNR, Rocky River, undated, read 2026-09-08.
- Shop reports
- Chosen from the organic search results for “rocky river 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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