freestone river · trout
Middle Saluda River
Live conditions for Middle Saluda River: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
14cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 14 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.
Water temp—
Stage1.29 ft
Engine callOFF 14 cfs outside wade band 35–90
The water
Middle Saluda River is a freestone river in South Carolina, fished for trout — 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.
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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
- Caesars Head / Raven Cliff Falls Parking Area (US 276 headwaters access)walk in
- Jones Gap State Park Main Entrance / Parking Areawalk in
- Jones Gap Trail Footbridge (Park HQ crossing)bridge
- John Reid Clonts Memorial Bridge (Jones Gap Trail, ~1 mi in)bridge
- Jones Gap Lower Catch-and-Release Parking (below Park HQ)walk in
- River Falls Road Access (SC 11/US276 to Jones Gap)walk in
- Hugh Smith Road Bridgebridge
- US Highway 276 Bridge at Clevelandbridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.