tailwater · trout

Uncompahgre River (below Ridgway Reservoir)

Live conditions for Uncompahgre River (below Ridgway Reservoir): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

67cfs→ lowcaution

Low and skinny at 67 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · 0% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage1.91 ft

Engine callOFF 67 cfs outside wade band 100–400

Gauge read 8:15 AM CDT · USGS 09147025. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Uncompahgre River (below Ridgway Reservoir) is a tailwater below Ridgway Dam in Colorado, 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

Pa-Co-Chu-Puk Boat Ramp / Dam Overlook Access (below Ridgway Dam)walk in
Pa-Co-Chu-Puk Campground River Accesswalk in
Pa-Co-Chu-Puk Lower Section / Cow Creek Confluence Accesswalk in
Cow Creek Confluence Bank Accesswalk in
Billy Creek State Wildlife Area (Uncompahgre River corridor)walk in
US Highway 550 Bridge Access (Billy Creek SWA)bridge
Ouray County Road 2 Bridgebridge
Woodgate Road Bridge Accessbridge

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Uncompahgre River.

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:

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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:

USGS gauge ↗

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