tailwater · trout
Taylor River (below Taylor Park)
Live conditions for Taylor River (below Taylor Park): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
48cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 48 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water.
Water temp42.3°F
Stage1.35 ft
Engine callOFF 48 cfs outside wade band 80–300
The water
Taylor River (below Taylor Park) is a tailwater below Taylor Park in Colorado, fished for trout — brown, rainbow, cutthroat. 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 troutcutthroat trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Taylor River SWA / Taylor Dam Tailwaterwalk in
- South Bank Access (dam tailwater boater put-in)carry
- Lottis Creek Campground river accesswalk in
- Cold Spring Campground river accesswalk in
- Lodgepole Campground river accesswalk in
- One Mile Campground river accesswalk in
- Rosy Lane Campground river accesswalk in
- North Bank Campground river accesswalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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