Tailwaters
On a tailwater, the dam calls the shots. Tailwaters reads them for you — live releases, hourly forecasts, fly picks, and rising‑water alerts, starting with the White River below Bull Shoals Dam and the North Fork below Norfork Dam.
Built on USACE, USGS, NWS, SWPA & other data sources — timestamped, source‑labeled, and cached for the river.
Pool level, spinning units, release in cfs — and the water at your spot: stage, temperature, dissolved oxygen.
Drag the timeline through history or the days ahead, and the whole scene — water, sky, moon, numbers — follows.
Ranked fly picks, where‑to‑stand advice, wade/float/boat calls, and today's regulations on one screen.
Turbine, spillway, units, and total flow — with water temp, DO₂, and weather for every hour. Scroll endlessly through history or jump to a date. Forecasts are marked, and every value names its source.
Flow: USACE & SWPA · Water: USGS · Weather: NWS
GPS pins you to the river — miles below the dam, landmarks upriver and down. When generation ramps, Tailwaters estimates when the surge reaches your position, and push alerts can warn you while it's still wadeable.
Wade, float & boat guidance grounded in the USACE hydraulic model.
The whole river, mile by mile — boat ramps, wade access, named holes, bridges, and gauges on a live map, with you on it.
Works in navigation-list or map view.
FISH NOW ranks patterns for season, light, weather, and flow — backed by local hatch reporting.
Current AGFC trout regulations — including emergency changes — right where you plan.
Wind, pressure trend, and moon phase, color‑coded by fishing influence. NWS alerts built in.
Temperature and dissolved oxygen from USGS gages — in the table and at your spot.
Rising‑water and weather notifications targeted to the tailwater you're actually on.
Cached‑first and refreshed in the background, so it opens fresh on one bar of signal.
Two tailwaters, in depth: the White River below Bull Shoals Dam — 44 modeled river miles — and the North Fork below Norfork Dam. Fish somewhere else? Request your tailwater in the app.
RequestQuestions, comments, issues — hello@damtailwaters.com
Tailwaters is a planning tool, not a warning system. Water can rise faster than any forecast — when in doubt, get out.