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Big Wood River (Hailey)
Live conditions for Big Wood River (Hailey): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
23cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 23 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.
Water temp—
Stage4.26 ft
Engine callOFF 23 cfs outside wade band 100–350
The water
Big Wood River (Hailey) is a freestone river in Idaho, fished for trout, whitefish — rainbow, brown, brook. 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.
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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Adams Gulch Road Accesswalk in
- Hulen Meadows Bridgebridge
- Hemingway/Northwood Natural Areawalk in
- Ketchum Rotary Parkwalk in
- Gimlet / East Fork Road Bridgebridge
- Gimlet / East Fork Bridge Accessbridge
- Lions Parkwalk in
- Hop Porter Parkwalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.