tailwater · trout
Colorado River (Lees Ferry)
Live conditions for Colorado River (Lees Ferry): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
5,100cfs↘ fallingcaution
Inside the wade band, but 68°F is warm for trout — mornings only, land fast · -15.8% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp68.2°F
Stage7.14 ft
Clarityclear 1.5 FNU
Engine callOFF 69°F — too warm for trout
The water
Colorado River (Lees Ferry) is a tailwater below Glen Canyon Dam in Western Tailwaters, fished for trout — rainbow, brown. 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
- Petroglyph Beach Day-Use Areacarry
- Lees Ferry Upper Wade Access (River Trail)walk in
- Paria Rifflewalk in
- Lees Ferry Launch Rampramp
- Lonely Dell Ranch Bank Accesswalk in
- Cathedral Wash River Accesswalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
More water in Western Tailwaters
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