Codorus Creek

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

Right now

23cfs↗ risingcaution

Below the wade band — low, fish concentrated, wade with care.

Water temp—

Stage0.90 ft

Engine callOFF 20 cfs outside wade band 30–90

Gauge read 1:00 AM CDT · USGS 01574500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Codorus Creek is a tailwater below Lake Marburg Dam in Pennsylvania, fished for trout — brown, rainbow. 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

Access points for this water are being mapped.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Codorus Creek.

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:

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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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