tailwater · trout
Esopus Creek
Live conditions for Esopus Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
79cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 79 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · -2.5% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp54.3°F
Stage3.55 ft
Clarityclear 4 FNU
Engine callOFF 79 cfs outside wade band 150–400
The water
Esopus Creek is a tailwater below Schoharie Reservoir (via Shandaken Tunnel portal) in Catskills, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, 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
- Big Indian – Route 28 Bridge Accesscarry
- The Portal – Shandaken Tunnel Outlet (Allaben)walk in
- Esopus Creek Access – Allaben "Cemetery" (below the Portal)walk in
- Route 28 & Woodland Valley Road Fishing Access (Phoenicia)bridge
- Esopus Creek Public Fishing Access – Cold Brook/Mount Pleasant Rdwalk in
- Catskills Visitor Center Esopus Creek Trail (Mount Tremper)walk in
- Boiceville – Five Arches Bridge (NY 28A)bridge
- Esopus Gorge / Traver Hollow Access (Olivebridge)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.