Beaver Kill · Cooks Falls, NY
The Beaver Kill at Cooks Falls. Live flow and water temperature from the USGS gauge, against USGS’s normal for the date. Real numbers or none.
Right now · Cooks Falls
Beaver Kill at Cooks Falls, NY
233 cfs · 48°F · normal for Oct 23 · gauge read 12:00 AM, Oct 23 ET
The water
DEC splits the Beaver Kill into stretches, some stocked and some catch and release, and each one has its own rules.
The card reads the USGS gauge at Cooks Falls, which drains 241 square miles of the river above it. A gauge reads one spot, so take the number as the river’s mood, not the depth at your boots.
Normal is USGS’s own call: the middle half of the daily flows on record for this date, across every year the gauge has run. You know your water better than a chart does.
Brown trout are what most people fish for here, with rainbow trout and brook trout behind them.
Rules on this water
- Catch and release, all year. Two stretches, artificial lures only: 2.5 miles down from the Sullivan County line below Roscoe to the old railroad trestle, and from 1.6 miles below the Iron Bridge at Horton to 1 mile above it.
- Closed July 1 to August 31. From the Iron Bridge at Horton down to the first Route 17 overpass, no fishing at all, to protect trout stressed by warm water.
- The stocked stretches. April 1 to October 15, 3 trout a day, no more than one longer than 12 inches. October 16 to March 31, catch and release with artificial lures only.
Seasons, sizes, and limits are DEC’s call, and they change. Check DEC’s inland trout stream rules before you go.
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