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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
Gauge read 1:15 AM CDT · USGS 03171000. Readings refresh every few minutes.

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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