tailwater · trout

Owyhee River (below Owyhee Dam)

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

Right now

116cfs→ stablecaution

No wade or float band on file yet · -1.7% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage1.73 ft

Gauge read 1:30 AM CDT · USGS 13183000. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Owyhee River (below Owyhee Dam) is a tailwater in Oregon, fished for trout — brown, rainbow. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.

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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

Owyhee Dam Tailwater Accesswalk in
Snively Hot Springs Recreation Sitewalk in
Gordan Gulch Boat Rampramp

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Owyhee River.

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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