tailwater · trout

South Platte — Eleven Mile Canyon

Live conditions for South Platte — Eleven Mile Canyon: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

69cfs→ lowfishable

Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp61.4°F

Engine callGO 69 cfs in the wade band · 61°F

Gauge read 1:15 AM CDT · CDSS PLAGEOCO. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

South Platte — Eleven Mile Canyon is a tailwater below Eleven Mile Dam in Denver, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, cutbow, cutthroat. 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.

troutrainbow troutbrown troutcutbow troutcutthroat trout

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

Access

Spillway Campground River Accesswalk in
Eleven Mile Overlook Trailhead (Spillway)walk in
Eleven Mile Fishing Area (former Spillway day-use site)walk in
Cove Campground River Accesswalk in
Springer Gulch Campground River Accesswalk in
Wagon Tongue Gulch Road Bridge (downstream boundary)bridge
Eleven Mile Picnic Areawalk in
Riverside Campground River Accesswalk in

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to South Platte — Eleven Mile Canyon.

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)MidgesTricosSowbug scud

The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

No public gauge link on file for this water yet.

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