tailwater · trout · smallmouth bass
Kettle Creek
Live conditions for Kettle Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
39cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 39 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.
Water temp55.0°F
Stage0.55 ft
Engine callOFF 40 cfs outside wade band 50–250
The water
Kettle Creek is a tailwater below Alvin R. Bush Dam in Pennsylvania, fished for trout, smallmouth bass — 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
- Oleona / PA 44-144 Bridge (headwaters access)bridge
- Ole Bull State Park streamside/ADA accesswalk in
- Cross Fork Bridge / Village Access (PA 144)bridge
- Hammersley Fork Confluence pull-offwalk in
- Kettle Creek State Park Lower Campground tailwater accesscarry
- Westport confluence / SR 4001 bridge (mouth access)bridge
- North Bend Boat Launchramp
- Renovo 5th Street Boat Launchramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.