freestone river · trout
Tumbling Creek
Live conditions for Tumbling Creek: the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
106cfs↘ fallingfishable
Inside the wade band, falling · -18.5% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage0.98 ft
Engine callGO 122 cfs in the wade band
The water
Tumbling Creek is a freestone river in Virginia, fished for trout — rainbow, brook, brown. 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
- Section D Parking (Upper Fee Area)walk in
- Section C Gorge Access (Road Blockade Trailhead)walk in
- Tumbling Creek Road Bridge (Laurel Bed Lake Rd crossing)bridge
- Section B Parking Areawalk in
- Section A Parking Areawalk in
- Clinch Mountain WMA Entrance / Permit Kiosk & Barrier-Free Fishing Trailwalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.