Ruby

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

Right now

265cfs→ highnot now

Above the wade band · -2.2% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp—

Stage3.45 ft

Engine callOFF 268 cfs outside wade band 40–122

Gauge read 1:45 AM CDT · USGS 06020600. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Ruby is a tailwater below Ruby Dam in Big Sky, Montana, fished for trout — brown, rainbow, cutthroat, 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.

troutbrown troutrainbow troutcutthroat troutbrook trout

Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Ruby Dam Fishing Access Sitewalk in
Vigilante Fishing Access Sitewalk in
Alder Bridge Fishing Access Sitebridge
Silver Springs Bridge Fishing Access Sitebridge
Black's Ford Fishing Access Sitewalk in
Blackbird Fishing Access Sitewalk in
Brownes Bridge Fishing Access Sitebridge
Chicory Fishing Access Sitewalk in

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

The briefing

Know before you drive to Ruby.

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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