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Watauga (Tailwater)
Live conditions for Watauga (Tailwater): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
1,430cfs↗ risingnot now
Too high to wade safely at 1430 cfs · +309.7% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp56.2°F
Stage4.40 ft
Engine callGO 349 cfs in the wade band · 56°F
The water
Watauga (Tailwater) is a tailwater below Watauga Dam (TVA gen) in Tennessee, 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
- Wilbur Dam Tailrace Accessramp
- Y's Men Fishing Accesswalk in
- Siam Bridge Accessbridge
- Hunter Bridge (Broad Street Bridge) Rampramp
- Stoney Creek Confluence Accesswalk in
- Riverside Park / Lovers Lane Accesswalk in
- Sycamore Shoals State Historic Sitewalk in
- Blevins Road Boat Ramp (Blevins Bend)ramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.