freestone river · trout
East Prong Roaring River
Live conditions for East Prong Roaring River: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
No live reading right now — this water has no live gauge wired yet.
The water
East Prong Roaring River is a freestone river in North Carolina, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook. 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
- Stone Mountain State Park – Upper Fishing Pier (below Bullhead Creek confluence)walk in
- Bullhead Creek Parking Areawalk in
- Stone Mountain State Park – Lower Fishing Pier (near group camp)walk in
- East Prong Roaring River Lower Pier (NCWRC Public Fishing Area)walk in
- Longbottom Road Bridgebridge
- Traphill Road (SR 1002) Bridgebridge
- Low Meadows Lane Bridgebridge
- Greenway Canoe Accesscarry
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.