freestone river · smallmouth bass · catfish · redeye bass
Sugar Creek (Crawfordsville)
Live conditions for Sugar Creek (Crawfordsville): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
55cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 55 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage3.09 ft
Engine callOFF 57 cfs outside wade band 100–300
The water
Sugar Creek (Crawfordsville) is a freestone river in Indiana, fished for smallmouth bass, catfish, redeye bass, carp. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
smallmouth basscatfishredeye basscarp
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Crawfordsville Access (Elston Park South)ramp
- Darlington Covered Bridge / Darlington Community Parkwalk in
- Sugar Creek Public Fishing Area (Camp Rotary/Offield Rd)walk in
- Crawfordsville Sugar Creek Canoe Launch (Old Coke Plant site, Lafayette Ave)carry
- Rock River Landing (Sugar Creek Trail Trailhead)carry
- Sugar Creek Public Fishing Area (Bachner Nature Reserve, Offield Monument Rd)walk in
- Deer's Mill Public Access Pointcarry
- Shades State Park Canoe Camp (Canoe Island area)carry
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.