warmwater tailwater · trout · smallmouth bass

Duck River

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

Right now

197cfs→ lowcaution

Below the wade band — low, fish concentrated, wade with care · +1% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage10.20 ft

Engine callOFF 199 cfs outside wade band 200–400

Gauge read 1:30 AM CDT · USGS 03597860. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Duck River is a warmwater tailwater below Normandy Dam in Middle TN, fished for trout, smallmouth bass — 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

Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park (Duck/Little Duck confluence)walk in
Normandy Dam Tailwater (bank access)walk in
Dement Bridge Accesscarry
Three Forks Bridge Accessramp
Mullins Mill Bridge Boat Rampramp
Lost Creek Boat Rampramp
Turkey Creek Boat Rampramp

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Duck 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:

Terrestrials

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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