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Big South Fork

Waterway

The Big South Fork of the Cumberland, running north out of Tennessee through a national river gorge of sandstone bluffs and arches…

Tippecanoe River

Waterway

One of the most biologically diverse rivers in the Midwest, a clear lake-fed smallmouth stream running from the Barbee chain down past…

Chagrin River

Waterway

The east-side Cleveland steelhead river, smaller and clearer than the Rocky, running through Gates Mills and Willoughby to Lake Erie with a…

Rocky River

Waterway

Cleveland home steelhead river, running through the Rocky River Reservation shale gorge to Lake Erie with public access along nearly its whole…

Illinois River

Waterway

Oklahoma designated Scenic River, a clear Ozark-plateau smallmouth stream running out of Arkansas past Tahlequah to Lake Tenkiller, with a trout tailwater…

Turkey River

Waterway

Northeast Iowa limestone country, a longer and larger Driftless river than the Upper Iowa, with strong smallmouth and a genuine walleye and…

Upper Iowa River

Waterway

The Driftless smallmouth float, running under limestone palisades in far northeast Iowa past Kendallville and Bluffton to the Mississippi.

Kankakee River

Waterway

A clean, sand-and-limestone river running west out of Indiana through Momence and Kankakee River State Park, with the best combination of smallmouth…

Elkhorn Creek

Waterway

The Bluegrass smallmouth float, running through horse country from the forks near Georgetown down a limestone gorge to the Kentucky River at…

Mad River

Waterway

Ohio's only true year-round trout stream, a spring-fed limestone river running from Logan County through Urbana and Springfield with wild-holdover browns.