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Mountaintown Creek

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

Right now

61cfs→ lownot now
Inside the wade band, but 77°F — don't fish trout today; rest them · +5.3% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp77.2°F
Stage2.94 ft
Engine callOFF 77°F — too warm for trout
Gauge read 7:15 AM CDT · USGS 02381090. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Mountaintown Creek is a freestone river in Georgia, fished for trout, redeye bass — rainbow, brown. 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.
troutredeye bassrainbow troutbrown trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

  • FS Road 64 / Three Forks Mountain Trailhead (West Fork Mountaintown / Crenshaw Branch access)walk in
  • Mountaintown Creek Trail Upper Trailhead (off FS Road 64)walk in
  • Mountaintown Creek Trail mid-point waterfall accesswalk in
  • Mountaintown Creek Trail lower trailhead (Triple Hill Rd / Gates Chapel Rd)walk in
  • Upper Mountaintown Creek gated USFS access (below Indian Grave Knob, above Hills Lake)walk in
  • Bear Creek / Mountaintown Creek confluence ford and parking area (FS Road 241)walk in
  • Gates Chapel Road bridge access (mile ~5.4, small bridge)bridge
  • SR 52 bridge over Mountaintown Creekbridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.