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Oatka Creek (Garbutt)
Live conditions for Oatka Creek (Garbutt): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
49cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 49 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.
Water temp—
Stage2.40 ft
Engine callOFF 49 cfs outside wade band 70–300
The water
Oatka Creek (Garbutt) is a spring creek in New York, fished for trout, smallmouth bass — 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
- NY-19 Bridge, Le Roy Villagebridge
- DEC Oatka Trail Parking Area (near Circular Hill Rd)walk in
- Oatka Trail Roadside Pull-off (downstream of DEC lot)walk in
- NY-36 Bridge / DEC Parking, Mumfordwalk in
- Wheatland Center Road Bridgebridge
- Oatka Creek County Park (Union St/Quaker Rd entrance)walk in
- Union Street Bridge, Wheatlandbridge
- Bowerman Road Bridgebridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.