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South Branch Tunkhannock Creek

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

Right now

184cfs→ stablecaution
No wade or float band on file yet · -11.1% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp
Stage1.69 ft
Engine callOFF no band
Gauge read 1:15 AM CDT · USGS 01534000. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

South Branch Tunkhannock Creek is a freestone river in Catskills, fished for trout — rainbow, brown, brook. 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

  • Lackawanna Lake Dam tailwater (Lackawanna State Park)walk in
  • PA Route 438 Bridge (Montdale Road)bridge
  • PA Route 438 bridge (Montdale Road)bridge
  • Lackawanna State Park – South Branch Trail tailwater below Lackawanna Lake Damwalk in
  • SR 6/11 bridge (Keystone Select upstream boundary, Factoryville)bridge
  • Keystone College Keystone Select Section (Route 6 Bridge / South Overbrook Rd)walk in
  • Keystone College Woodlands Campus (ballfield / South Overbrook Rd)walk in
  • Little Rocky Glen Preserve (Lithia Valley Rd bridge)walk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.