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Guadalupe River (Canyon Dam tailwater)

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

Right now

149cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · -1.3% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp
Stage4.68 ft
Engine callGO 151 cfs in the wade band
Gauge read 1:35 AM CDT · USGS 08167800. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Guadalupe River (Canyon Dam tailwater) is a tailwater below Canyon Dam in Austin, fished for trout, striped bass, smallmouth bass, 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.
troutstriped basssmallmouth bassbassrainbow troutbrown trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

  • Guadalupe Park (USACE, below Canyon Dam)walk in
  • FM 306 Bridge – Horseshoe Loop (upper/west crossing)bridge
  • FM 306 Bridge – Horseshoe Loop (lower/east crossing)bridge
  • Whitewater Sports (TPWD Lease Access)walk in
  • Rio Guadalupe Resort (TPWD Lease Access, 4th Crossing)carry
  • Camp Huaco Springs (TPWD Lease Access, 1st Crossing)walk in
  • Gruene Crossing Bridgebridge
  • SH 46 Crossingbridge
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.