Linville River

depends who you ask… roughly speaking 2.0’-2.3’ is low (especially past Conley cove), 2.3’-2.6’ is medium fluff, stuff fills in (past Conley getting good), higher than 2.6’ & up is another gray area between good fluff and pushy, 2.8’-3.0’ is pretty stacked and the upper threshold for mere mortals. The Putin is about 6hrs ahead of this gauge at Lake James so today depending on the high country’s summer water table you’d get the gorge probably around 2.45’-2.7’.. perfect