freestone river · trout · smallmouth bass
Little River (GSMNP)
Live conditions for Little River (GSMNP): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
62cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 62 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · +2.5% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp65.1°F
Stage1.38 ft
Engine callOFF 60 cfs outside wade band 80–400
The water
Little River (GSMNP) is a freestone river in GSMNP, fished for trout, smallmouth bass — 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.
troutsmallmouth bassrainbow troutbrown troutbrook troutWade only
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Little River Trailhead (Elkmont)walk in
- Elkmont Campground River Accesswalk in
- Long Arm Bridgebridge
- Millsap Bottoms Pull-offwalk in
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Areawalk in
- The Sinkswalk in
- Meigs Falls Pull-offwalk in
- Townsend Wye (Little River / Middle Prong confluence)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.