tailwater · trout
Rondout Creek
Live conditions for Rondout Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
49cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low.
Water temp65.7°F
Stage2.87 ft
Engine callGO 49 cfs in the wade band · 66°F
The water
Rondout Creek is a tailwater below Merriman Dam (Rondout Reservoir) in Catskills, 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
- Peekamoose Blue Hole / Lower Field Parking (Upper Rondout Creek)walk in
- Bull Run State Campground Access Roadwalk in
- East Mountain Road Bridgebridge
- Wawarsing – Below Rondout Reservoir Tailwater Accesswalk in
- Napanoch – NY 55 Bridge Accesscarry
- Napanoch – US 209 Bridgebridge
- Wawarsing – Port Ben Road Bridgebridge
- Kerhonkson – US 44 / NY 55 Bridgebridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.