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Live conditions for every river we track.

Real-time USGS flow data, plain-language safety ratings, and what's running — river by river, state by state. Whether you're wading, floating, or paddling, stop guessing before you drive an hour to find out the water's blown out.

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2,200RIVERS TRACKED
3,694MAPPED GAUGES
9,358GAUGES INCLUDED
50STATES LIVE
The rivers, live

Every river we track, on the map

Fifty states, each color-coded by state — 2,200 tracked rivers on a real map, every dot a live USGS gauge. Tap any river to open its live dashboard.

Each dot is a live USGS gauge, colored by state — tap any river to open its live dashboard with current flow, safety rating, and what's running.
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How it works

One live engine, built for anyone reading the water.

Pick a state, pick a river, and every dashboard runs the same way: we pull the live reading from that river's USGS gauge every few minutes, measure it against thresholds tuned from decades of flow history, and turn it into a plain-language rating — safe, caution, or too high. Then we layer on the trend, the local weather, what's running, and real reports from people who were just there. It's the same check whether you're a wading angler, a drift boater, or a kayaker deciding if today's the day to run it.

50STATES · 2,200 RIVERS LIVE
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Where we're headed

All fifty states live.

Every new state uses the same live-gauge engine, the same safety-rating model, and the same community-intel loop that's already running on rivers in all fifty states.

Ohio
Live now
Mad River trout · Steelhead Alley · Maumee walleye run
71 rivers · 262 gauges tracked
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West Virginia
Live now
Cranberry & Elk trout · New River smallmouth · Gauley
36 rivers · 114 gauges tracked
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Michigan
Live now
Au Sable & Manistee trout · Pere Marquette & Muskegon steelhead · Huron smallmouth
63 rivers · 219 gauges tracked
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Illinois
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Kankakee & Fox smallmouth · Rock River flats · Chicago-area urban rivers
44 rivers · 206 gauges tracked
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Indiana
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Sugar Creek & Tippecanoe smallmouth · Lake Michigan steelhead · Wabash catfish
45 rivers · 197 gauges tracked
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Kentucky
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Cumberland trophy-trout tailwater · Elkhorn smallmouth · Red River Gorge
37 rivers · 168 gauges tracked
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Pennsylvania
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Spring Creek & Penns limestone trout · Erie steelhead · Susquehanna smallmouth
75 rivers · 314 gauges tracked
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Tennessee
Live now
Watauga & Caney Fork TVA tailwaters · Smoky Mtn brookies · Duck River smallmouth
37 rivers · 119 gauges tracked
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Alabama
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Sipsey Fork tailwater trout · Cahaba shoal bass · Coosa & Tallapoosa smallmouth
45 rivers · 175 gauges tracked
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Alaska
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Kenai salmon & rainbows · Situk steelhead · Chena grayling
42 rivers · 112 gauges tracked
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Arizona
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Lees Ferry trophy trout · Salt & Verde smallmouth · desert canyon streams
26 rivers · 192 gauges tracked
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Arkansas
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White River tailwater trout · Buffalo National River smallmouth · Little Red trophy browns
35 rivers · 133 gauges tracked
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California
Live now
Lower Sacramento trout · Trinity & Klamath steelhead · Sierra wild trout
55 rivers · 515 gauges tracked
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Colorado
Live now
South Platte & Arkansas trout · Fryingpan & Taylor tailwaters · Gunnison Gold Medal
46 rivers · 355 gauges tracked
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Connecticut
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Farmington tailwater trout · Housatonic smallmouth · restored Naugatuck
39 rivers · 73 gauges tracked
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Delaware
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Brandywine & White Clay trout · Nanticoke bass · Piedmont creeks
12 rivers · 21 gauges tracked
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Florida
Live now
St. Johns bass & shad · Suwannee bass · spring-fed clearwater rivers
57 rivers · 421 gauges tracked
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Georgia
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Chattahoochee tailwater trout · Flint shoal bass · North Georgia mountains
51 rivers · 309 gauges tracked
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Hawaii
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Kōkeʻe stocked trout · Lake Wilson peacock bass · island flash-flood safety
14 rivers · 92 gauges tracked
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Idaho
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Henry's Fork & South Fork Snake trout · Silver Creek · Salmon River steelhead
47 rivers · 221 gauges tracked
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Iowa
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Upper Iowa smallmouth · Driftless spring-creek trout · Cedar & Wapsi
40 rivers · 147 gauges tracked
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Kansas
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Flint Hills smallmouth · prairie-river catfish · reservoir tailwaters
36 rivers · 190 gauges tracked
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Louisiana
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Bogue Chitto & Tchefuncte float rivers · Red & Ouachita bass · Atchafalaya
40 rivers · 104 gauges tracked
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Maine
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Kennebec & Penobscot brookies · landlocked salmon · Down East rivers
40 rivers · 65 gauges tracked
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Maryland
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Gunpowder wild browns · Savage tailwater · upper Potomac smallmouth
41 rivers · 140 gauges tracked
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Massachusetts
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Deerfield & Swift tailwater trout · Connecticut R smallmouth · Quabbin coldwater
34 rivers · 122 gauges tracked
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Minnesota
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Driftless spring-creek trout · St. Croix smallmouth · North Shore steelhead
46 rivers · 117 gauges tracked
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Mississippi
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Pascagoula & Pearl bass · Bogue Chitto float · big-river catfish
39 rivers · 134 gauges tracked
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Missouri
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Current & North Fork trout · Ozark smallmouth floats · Meramec & Gasconade
44 rivers · 232 gauges tracked
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Montana
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Missouri & Bighorn tailwaters · Madison & Yellowstone freestones · native cutthroat
69 rivers · 230 gauges tracked
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Nebraska
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Niobrara smallmouth · Sandhills spring rivers · Missouri catfish
43 rivers · 118 gauges tracked
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Nevada
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Truckee trophy trout · Carson & Walker · Humboldt smallmouth
28 rivers · 153 gauges tracked
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New Hampshire
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Androscoggin & Connecticut trout · White Mtn freestones · Merrimack smallmouth
31 rivers · 55 gauges tracked
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New Jersey
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South Branch Raritan trout · Delaware smallmouth & shad · Pine Barrens rivers
41 rivers · 135 gauges tracked
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New Mexico
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San Juan trophy tailwater · Rio Grande & Chama · Gila native trout
35 rivers · 167 gauges tracked
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New York
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Delaware wild-trout tailwaters · Salmon River steelhead · Catskill legends
62 rivers · 305 gauges tracked
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North Carolina
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Nantahala & Davidson trout · French Broad smallmouth · Roanoke stripers
59 rivers · 249 gauges tracked
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North Dakota
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Missouri tailwater trout & walleye · Red River catfish · Badlands Little Missouri
28 rivers · 125 gauges tracked
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Oklahoma
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Lower Illinois & Mountain Fork trout · Blue River smallmouth · Illinois float
37 rivers · 155 gauges tracked
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Oregon
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Deschutes redsides & steelhead · McKenzie & Rogue · Willamette
59 rivers · 268 gauges tracked
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Rhode Island
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Wood River wild trout · Wood-Pawcatuck · Blackstone
16 rivers · 38 gauges tracked
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South Carolina
Live now
Saluda trophy trout tailwater · Chattooga · Edisto blackwater
37 rivers · 151 gauges tracked
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South Dakota
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Black Hills trout · Missouri walleye · Big Sioux & James
33 rivers · 123 gauges tracked
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Texas
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Guadalupe trout & bass · Hill Country spring rivers · big-river catfish
58 rivers · 608 gauges tracked
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Utah
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Green River trophy tailwater · Provo blue-ribbon · Wasatch freestones
46 rivers · 175 gauges tracked
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Vermont
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Battenkill-country trout · White & Winooski · Champlain tribs
30 rivers · 53 gauges tracked
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Virginia
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Jackson & Smith tailwater trout · Shenandoah & James smallmouth · New River
67 rivers · 197 gauges tracked
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Washington
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Yakima blue-ribbon trout · Skagit & Olympic steelhead · Columbia
79 rivers · 276 gauges tracked
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Wisconsin
Live now
Driftless spring-creek trout · Bois Brule steelhead · Wisconsin & Wolf
56 rivers · 198 gauges tracked
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Wyoming
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North Platte trophy tailwaters · Snake & Green · Yellowstone cutthroat
49 rivers · 110 gauges tracked
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The rollout continues state by state — see every live river on the map above.

What's actually here

Everything you'd check before you drive to the water

Built from live federal gauge data plus real angler intel — not a static "best rivers" listicle.

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Live USGS flow data

Pulled directly from waterservices.usgs.gov, refreshed every 15 minutes — 3,694 gauges mapped behind our tracked rivers, and 9,358 USGS gauges included across all 50 states.

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Plain-language safety ratings

SAFE / CAUTION / LIMITED / STAY OUT — thresholds tuned per gauge from USGS long-term flow percentiles, so wading anglers and paddlers alike know whether it's fishable, runnable, or a day to stay home.

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Per-river species guide

What's actually swimming in each stretch — smallmouth, steelhead, walleye, saugeye, flathead, trout — and the season/water conditions to target them.

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What to throw

Tackle and fly recommendations tied to the current conditions on that exact river, not generic advice.

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Statewide interactive map

Every gauge plotted, color-coded live by status, so you can scan a whole region at once instead of checking rivers one by one.

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Flow history & trend charts

Rising, falling, or holding steady — the number alone can lie mid-storm; the trend tells you what the river's about to do.

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Local weather module

Current conditions and the multi-day outlook at each gauge's exact location, pulled from api.weather.gov.

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Community intel — "Read the Water"

Gauges tell you the flow; people on the water tell you the truth. Real-time reports from anglers and paddlers who were there an hour ago.

Reports

Two kinds of reports, working together

Automated flow reports keep the data honest. Angler-submitted reports keep it real.

Mad River — Urbana, OH
Auto flow report · updated 15 min ago
SAFE
Au Sable — Mio, MI
Auto flow report · updated 15 min ago
CAUTION
"Dropped overnight, clean enough to run the canyon section"
Community report · Arkansas River, CO
INTEL
"White River tailwater tailing out, browns eating midges"
Community report · White River, AR
BITE

How reports work

Every river page blends both sources so you're never relying on a number alone.

Auto flow reports — generated straight from the live USGS reading against that gauge's tuned safe/caution/limited thresholds.
Community intel — anglers and paddlers submit what they actually saw: water clarity, access issues, what's running or biting, whether the rating matched reality.
Trend flags — rising water on a "safe" reading gets flagged, because the number lies faster than the river changes.

Data · USGS Water Services + NWS
Not a substitute for judgment. Wade smart, fish smart.

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