freestone river · smallmouth bass · trout
Merrimack River (Franklin Junction)
Live conditions for Merrimack River (Franklin Junction): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
574cfs↗ risingcaution
Low and skinny at 574 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · +21.6% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage3.76 ft
Engine callOFF 551 cfs outside wade band 1000–3000
The water
Merrimack River (Franklin Junction) is a freestone river below Franklin Falls Dam in New Hampshire, fished for smallmouth bass, trout. 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.
smallmouth basstrout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Franklin Public Boat Ramp (behind Franklin High School)carry
- Franklin Junction Canoe Access (Rt 3 south, near county jail)carry
- Salmon Brook Station Accesswalk in
- Merrimack County Complex Boat Ramp (Boscawen)ramp
- Boscawen Town Park Boat Rampramp
- Rivco / Penacook Street Boat Rampramp
- Sewalls Falls Access (former dam site)walk in
- Turtletown Pond Rd river access (Concord)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.