freestone river · trout
Barbours Creek
Live conditions for Barbours Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
11cfs→ lowcaution
Below the wade band — low, fish concentrated, wade with care.
Water temp—
Stage2.58 ft
Engine callOFF 11 cfs outside wade band 20–100
The water
Barbours Creek is a freestone river in Virginia, fished for trout — brook, brown, rainbow. 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.
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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
- Potts Creek Road (FDR 5036) / VA 617 Trailhead Parkingwalk in
- Pines Campground (Barbours Creek/Lipes Branch)walk in
- Potts Creek Road / VA 617 Trailhead Parking (Barbours Creek Wilderness Addition)walk in
- The Pines Campground Bank Access (Barbours Creek)walk in
- Lipes Branch Trailhead (Barbours Creek confluence)walk in
- Lipes Branch Trailhead (Barbours Creek)walk in
- VA 617 Roadside Access near Potts Creek Jeep Trail / First Stocking Signwalk in
- Potts Mountain Jeep Trail Ford (VA-617)bridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.