tailwater · trout
Savage River (Barton)
Live conditions for Savage River (Barton): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
55cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp64.9°F
Stage0.73 ft
Engine callGO 55 cfs in the wade band · 65°F
The water
Savage River (Barton) is a tailwater below Savage River Dam in Maryland, fished for trout — brown, brook, 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.
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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
- Upper Savage River – Savage River Road Pull-offs (near Barton gauge)walk in
- Big Run State Park River Accesswalk in
- Savage River Dam Put-in / Fly-Fishing-Only Zone Startbridge
- Allegany Suspension Bridge (Trophy Trout Zone Boundary)bridge
- Savage River Road Pull-off – Swinging Bridge/House Rockwalk in
- Savage River Road Pull-offs – Lower Tailwaterwalk in
- Savage–North Branch Potomac Confluence Take-out (Bloomington)walk in
- Barnum Whitewater Arearamp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.