tailwater · trout
East Branch Delaware River
Live conditions for East Branch Delaware River: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
126cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · -1.6% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp53.2°F
Stage2.43 ft
Engine callGO 126 cfs in the wade band · 53°F
The water
East Branch Delaware River is a tailwater below Downsville Dam (Pepacton Reservoir) in Catskills, fished for trout — brown, rainbow, 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
- Downsville Covered Bridgewalk in
- Al's Sport Store Launch (Downsville)carry
- Corbett Bridgebridge
- Shinhopple Bridge / Al's Sport Shopcarry
- East Branch Hamlet Hand Launch (NYSDEC)carry
- Fish's Eddy Bridge / DEC Hand Launchcarry
- Cadosia Hand Launch (NYSDEC)carry
- Junction Pool Hand Launch (NYSDEC)carry
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.