warmwater tailwater · carp · striped bass · smallmouth bass

Cumberland River (Nashville)

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

Right now

7,570cfs↘ fallingcaution

Inside the wade band, but 78°F is warm for trout — this is smallmouth water in this heat · -39.9% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp78.4°F

Stage16.65 ft

Engine callOFF 12100 cfs outside wade band 2000–12000

Gauge read 1:30 AM CDT · USGS 03431500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Cumberland River (Nashville) is a warmwater tailwater below Old Hickory in Middle TN, fished for carp, striped bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass. 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.

carpstriped basssmallmouth basslargemouth bassDrift/jet boat; wade the flats at low/no generation

Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Old Hickory Lock & Dam Tailwater Access Arearamp
Peeler Park Boat Ramp (Neeley's Bend Rd)ramp
Lock Two Park Boat Ramp (Pennington Bend)ramp
Shelby Bottoms Greenway Riverside Trailwalk in
Shelby Park Boat Rampramp
Wasioto Park (East Bank, formerly Cumberland Park)walk in
Lock One Parkwalk in
MetroCenter Levee Greenway Accesswalk in

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Cumberland 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 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:

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