Oswayo Creek

Fishing, stocking, and current conditions

Brown trout, golden rainbow trout, and rainbow trout water, stocked through the 2026 season program; 4,045 fish in the published allocation. One of 19 stocked waters on the McKean County record. A USGS gauge reports from this water, so the conditions card on this page is live.

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program 2026 season

flow 24% of seasonal normal

best window 10:13 pm-12:13 am solunar major today

Water right now 3.54 ft gage height flow 11.2 cfs, 24% of the Oct 23 median USGS gauge 03010655 (Oswayo Creek at Shinglehouse, PA) · read 8:45 pm this evening

3 species

4,045 fish allocated

What swims here

Brown trout 1 allocation

Golden rainbow trout 1 allocation

Rainbow trout 1 allocation

Season program record

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission publishes this water by season or program window, not by dated schedule, so there are no truck dates to list; the rows below are the published program allocations. The Pennsylvania season shape statewide: mid-february into october.

Agency feed checked today.

Season	Species	Fish
2026 season	Brown trout	1,390
2026 season	Golden rainbow trout	45
2026 season	Rainbow trout	2,610

When to fish Oswayo Creek

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:50-11:50 am and 10:13 pm-12:13 am	4:07-5:07 am and 4:22-5:22 pm
Tomorrow	10:37 am-12:37 pm	5:17-6:17 am and 4:45-5:45 pm

Moon: waxing gibbous, 92% lit. These are solunar periods, the traditional feeding-time theory: majors around the moon's transit overhead and underfoot, minors around moonrise and moonset. Theory, not a measurement. Times are Eastern Time (EDT).

What the record actually says

Stocked through the 2026 season program
Flow 24% of the seasonal median

Computed this evening, Oct 23 · Pennsylvania fishing forecast

Gear for this water

For the trout (brown trout on the season program here, moving water)

Drifted bait	single salmon egg or half a crawler under light split shot, rolled along the bottom
Small jerkbaits	floating minnows in the 2 to 3 inch class for the deeper bends
Waders or wet-wading boots	stocked stream fish stack in the obvious pools; getting to the next one is the edge

Suggestions follow from what the state actually stocks here and what kind of water it is, nothing else. No sponsored placements.

Nearby stocked waters

The closest waters with stocking pages of their own, straight-line miles from this one.

Water	Distance	Most recent
Bell Run	6.7 mi	Feb 19
Potato Creek	9.6 mi	Apr 17
Elevenmile Creek	14 mi	May 11
Marvin Creek	16 mi	Feb 24
West Branch Tunungwant Creek	16 mi	May 13

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Records from Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (official page). Placement from USGS GNIS. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Pennsylvania fishing regulations.