tailwater · trout

Lackawanna River

Live conditions for Lackawanna River: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

48cfs→ lowcaution

Low and skinny at 48 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.

Water temp—

Stage1.77 ft

Engine callOFF 47 cfs outside wade band 100–300

Gauge read 8:00 AM CDT · USGS 01534500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Lackawanna River is a tailwater below Aylesworth Dam (primary/closest); Stillwater Dam (upstream) 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

Carbondale River Access (Greater Carbondale YMCA / John Street)ramp
Mayfield River Access (Chestnut Street Trailhead)carry
Jermyn River Accessramp
David P. Maslyar Park (Laurel Street Park)carry
Blakely Borough Recreational Park (Peckville)carry
Olyphant River Accesswalk in
Olive Street Bridge (Trophy Trout upstream boundary)bridge
Parker Street Landingcarry

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Lackawanna River.

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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