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Black River (North Springfield)
Live conditions for Black River (North Springfield): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
64cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 64 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · -2.4% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.97 ft
Engine callOFF 64 cfs outside wade band 150–450
The water
Black River (North Springfield) is a freestone river below North Springfield Dam in Vermont, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
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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
- Foundry Road / Twentymile Stream Rd Bridge (Cavendish)bridge
- VT Route 131 Bridge, Cavendish Centerbridge
- Downers (Upper Falls) Covered Bridge Accessbridge
- Downers Corners to Howard Hill Bridge Reach (mid-point wading access)walk in
- Perkinsville Village Bridgebridge
- North Springfield Dam Tailwater Accesswalk in
- Black River Streambank Management Area (Springfield reach)walk in
- Comtu Falls / Black River Falls Downtown Accesswalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.