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Cuyahoga River

What the sources say

“The Cuyahoga River was first officially stocked with steelhead trout on April 25, 2024, at Foundry Park in Cleveland.”

USGS gauge

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Conditions log: past reports naming the Cuyahoga River, next to this gauge’s flow on each report’s date.

Stocking

Steelhead stocked each year, and ODNR’s target in the last column (ODNR table, PDF)
Water202120222023202420252026 Target
Cuyahoga River00060,06160,12560,000
Headings and numbers exactly as ODNR prints them: Water Area/Location 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Target, Cuyahoga River 0 0 0 60,061 60,125 60,000. The last column is a target, not a count.

ODNR map

ODNR’s Cuyahoga River fishing map (PDF) is an image without text we can check, so we link it rather than list its places.

Rules

Selected Ohio fishing-law provisions are quoted on the rules page, with links to the full code sections and license exceptions.

In Ohio, you can only gain access to streams flowing on public property. If you are on private property, including land that streams flow over, you must have landowner permission. (ODNR map (PDF))

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