tailwater · trout · striped bass

Caney Fork

Live conditions for Caney Fork: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

1,220cfs↗ risingnot now

Above the wade band · +256.7% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp51.4°F

Stage7.61 ft

Engine callGO 334 cfs in the wade band · 55°F

Gauge read 1:30 AM CDT · USGS 03424860. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Caney Fork is a tailwater below Center Hill Dam in Middle TN, fished for trout, striped bass — rainbow, brown, brook. 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

Long Branch Recreation Area Boat Rampramp
Buffalo Valley Boat Rampramp
Buffalo Valley Nature Trail / Wolf Creek Confluence Accesswalk in
Lancaster Highway Pull-offswalk in
Happy Hollow Access Area (TWRA)ramp
I-40 Rest Area (Mile Marker 267)walk in
Betty's Island Access (TWRA)ramp
Kirby Road Pull-off (Congo Bottom)walk in

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Caney Fork.

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 September:

Blue-winged olive (BWO)Midges

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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