tailwater · trout
Caney Fork
Live conditions for Caney Fork: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
723cfs→ highnot now
Too high to wade safely at 723 cfs.
Water temp51.5°F
Stage6.82 ft
Engine callOFF 850 cfs outside wade band 200–600
The water
Caney Fork is a tailwater below Center Hill Dam in Middle TN, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook, cutthroat. 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
- Long Branch Recreation Area Boat Rampramp
- Buffalo Valley Boat Rampramp
- Buffalo Valley Nature Trail / Wolf Creek Confluence Accesswalk in
- Lancaster Highway Pull-offswalk in
- Happy Hollow Access Area (TWRA)ramp
- I-40 Rest Area (Mile Marker 267)walk in
- Betty's Island Access (TWRA)ramp
- Kirby Road Pull-off (Congo Bottom)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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