tailwater · smallmouth bass · musky · walleye
New River (Radford, below Claytor)
Live conditions for New River (Radford, below Claytor): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
988cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · +2.4% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.93 ft
Engine callGO 988 cfs in the wade band
The water
New River (Radford, below Claytor) is a tailwater below Claytor Lake Dam in Roanoke, Virginia, fished for smallmouth bass, musky, walleye, white 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.
smallmouth bassmuskywalleyewhite bass
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Allisonia Boat Ramp (Claytor Lake headwaters)ramp
- Harry DeHaven Park / Harry's Point Rampramp
- Claytor Lake State Park Boat Rampramp
- Claytor Dam Tailwater Launch (DWR)ramp
- Bisset Park Boat Ramp (Dudley's Landing)ramp
- Riverview Park Boat Launchramp
- Peppers Ferry Bridge (Route 114) Accessbridge
- Whitethorne Boat Rampramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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