freestone river · steelhead · trout
Cattaraugus Creek (Gowanda)
Live conditions for Cattaraugus Creek (Gowanda): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
208cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 208 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · -5% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp56.7°F
Stage1.45 ft
Claritystained 26.3 FNU
Engine callOFF 212 cfs outside wade band 230–500
The water
Cattaraugus Creek (Gowanda) is a freestone river in New York, fished for steelhead, trout — brown, rainbow. 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
- Scoby Dam Parkwalk in
- Hammond Hill Road Bridge / PFR Corridorbridge
- Point Peter Road Bridgebridge
- Savage Road Public Stream Accesswalk in
- Forty Road Parking Lot (Zoar Valley MUA)walk in
- North Otto Road Bridge / DEC Fishing Accesscarry
- Aldrich Street Bridge, Gowandabridge
- Main Street Park, Gowandawalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.