tailwater · trout
Swift River (West Ware)
Live conditions for Swift River (West Ware): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
122cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage2.86 ft
Engine callGO 122 cfs in the wade band
The water
Swift River (West Ware) is a tailwater below Winsor Dam in Massachusetts, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook. 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
- Y-Pool (below Winsor Dam / "the Bubbler")walk in
- McLaughlin Hatchery Pipe Areawalk in
- Route 9 Bridgebridge
- Herman Covey WMA – East Street Parkingwalk in
- Cady Lane Fishing Accesswalk in
- Cold Spring Road Boat Launch (Red Bridge)ramp
- Bondsville Dam Tailwaterwalk in
- Swift/Ware River Confluence (Three Rivers)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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