Kettle Creek

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

Right now

74cfs→ lowfishable

Inside the wade band, stable low · -2.4% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp60.4°F

Stage0.78 ft

Engine callGO 76 cfs in the wade band · 63°F

Gauge read 1:00 AM CDT · USGS 01544500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Kettle Creek is a tailwater below Alvin R. Bush Dam in Pennsylvania, fished for trout — brown, rainbow, brook. 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

Oleona / PA 44-144 Bridge (headwaters access)bridge
Ole Bull State Park streamside/ADA accesswalk in
Cross Fork Bridge / Village Access (PA 144)bridge
Hammersley Fork Confluence pull-offwalk in
Kettle Creek State Park Lower Campground tailwater accesscarry
Westport confluence / SR 4001 bridge (mouth access)bridge
North Bend Boat Launchramp
Renovo 5th Street Boat Launchramp

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Kettle 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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