freestone river · trout
Saco River (Conway)
Live conditions for Saco River (Conway): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
208cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 208 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · -3.3% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp54.3°F
Stage2.42 ft
Engine callOFF 212 cfs outside wade band 300–1000
The water
Saco River (Conway) is a freestone river in New Hampshire, fished for trout — brook, brown, rainbow. 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
- Humphrey's Ledge Access (West Side Road)walk in
- First Bridge (River Road, North Conway)bridge
- Conway Police Station / Meetinghouse Road Accesscarry
- Saco River Covered Bridge / Davis Parkwalk in
- Redstone Rapids Access (Rt. 16/302, Redstone)walk in
- Saco Bound Access (East Main St/Rt. 302, Center Conway)carry
- Walker's Bridge (Rt. 302)bridge
- Swan's Falls Canoe Access (Fryeburg, ME)carry
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.