tailwater · smallmouth bass · redeye bass · largemouth bass

Duck River At Mile 156 Near Pottsville, Tn

Live conditions for Duck River At Mile 156 Near Pottsville, Tn: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

176cfs→ lowcaution

Low and skinny at 176 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · 0% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage5.32 ft

Engine callOFF 176 cfs outside wade band 200–650

Gauge read 8:00 AM CDT · USGS 03599419. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Duck River At Mile 156 Near Pottsville, Tn is a tailwater below Normandy Dam in Tennessee, fished for smallmouth bass, redeye bass, largemouth bass, catfish, panfish. 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.

smallmouth bassredeye basslargemouth basscatfishpanfish

Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Milltown Accesscarry
Hardisons Mill Accesscarry
Carpenters Bridge Accesscarry
Leftwich Bridge (Sowell Mill Bridge) Accesscarry
Chickasaw Traceramp
Henry Horton Canoe / Kayak Rampramp

Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Duck River At Mile 156 Near Pottsville, Tn.

Every morning OUTFISH reads this gauge, the dam schedule, the water temperature, the sky and the tips library, and writes one plain-language call for the waters you track: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on — with directions.

Start free — 7 days of Guide

Signed in: the wade and float bands, the full hatch calendar, safety notes, the 14-day trend, shop reports and today's briefing for this water.

This month

Active in October:

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The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

The same sources the engine reads, straight from the agency:

USGS gauge ↗

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