freestone river · trout
Smith Creek
Live conditions for Smith Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
No live reading right now — this water has no live gauge wired yet.
The water
Smith Creek is a freestone river below Unicoi State Park Lake Dam (Unicoi Dam) in Georgia, fished for trout — rainbow, brown. 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
- Anna Ruby Falls Recreation Area Visitor Center / Lion's Eye Trail bank access (Upper Smith Creek, USFS)walk in
- Smith Creek at Anna Ruby Falls Road (Upper Smith Creek general regulations section)walk in
- Unicoi State Park Angler/Mountain Bike Parking Area (Lower Smith Creek Delayed Harvest access)walk in
- Unicoi Lake Dam foot-access bridge (Lake Trail crossing)bridge
- Smith Creek service-road bridge pools (Unicoi DH section)bridge
- Unicoi Hill City Park terminus (Lower Smith Creek downstream limit)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.