Tuckaseegee (Tuck)

Live conditions for Tuckaseegee (Tuck): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

306cfs↗ risingcaution

Inside the wade band but rising · +78.9% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage3.33 ft

Engine callGO 169 cfs in the wade band

Gauge read 7:15 AM CDT · USGS 03510577. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Tuckaseegee (Tuck) is a tailwater in North Carolina, fished for trout, smallmouth bass — rainbow, brown, brook. 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.

troutsmallmouth bassrainbow troutbrown troutbrook troutRaft

Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Tanasee Creek Lake Accessramp
Shook Cove Put-Incarry
Tuckasegee (Thorpe) Powerhouse Access Arearamp
Tuckasegee Powerhouse River Access (West Fork tailwater)ramp
Tuckasegee Powerhouse Public Fishing Areacarry
Bear Creek Lake Access Arearamp
Shook Cove Access Area (Put-In)carry
East LaPorte River Access Parkramp

Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Tuckaseegee.

Every morning OUTFISH reads this gauge, the dam schedule, the water temperature, the sky and the tips library, and writes one plain-language call for the waters you track: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on — with directions.

Start free — 7 days of Guide

Signed in: the wade and float bands, the full hatch calendar, safety notes, the 14-day trend, shop reports and today's briefing for this water.

This month

Active in October:

MidgesBrown caddis

The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

The same sources the engine reads, straight from the agency:

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