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Owyhee River (below Owyhee Dam)

Live conditions for Owyhee River (below Owyhee Dam): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

101cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.65 ft
Engine callGO 101 cfs in the wade band
Gauge read 7:30 AM CDT · USGS 13183000. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Owyhee River (below Owyhee Dam) is a tailwater below Owyhee in Oregon, fished for trout — brown, rainbow. 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.
troutbrown troutrainbow trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

  • Owyhee Dam Tailwater Accesswalk in
  • Below Owyhee Dam Accesscarry
  • Snively Hot Springs Recreation Sitewalk in
  • Owyhee Lake Road Upper Pull-offswalk in
  • The Tunnel Accesswalk in
  • Owyhee Lake Road Lower Pull-offswalk in
  • Snively Hot Springswalk in
  • Gordan Gulch Boat Rampramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.