freestone river · trout
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
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.