Cowpasture
1. Shaw Fork (Route 250) to Route 625 bridge
July 26, 2007
Trip Report
| Reporter | Anthony Hanger |
shaw fork to bullpasture confluence is not worth the landowner/parking problems plus it is FULL of junk, better to put in at williamsville at the church/trout fishing parking on the bullpasture and run down to cowpasture. ive only gone as far as the rt 627 scotchtown draft rd bridge(nat. forest with easy parking) bullpasture has readable ft. guage at the usgs guage site at the williamsville putin bridge, it was 2ft something which is 200cfs on the gorge run section minimum.. i think the cowpasture guage on amww was 2ftplus that day but thats way down stream. once you pass the first island you hit the confluence and doubles the water and its clean class 2 wavetrains with maybe a cl3- double/ledge, good run for begginers like two of the newbies i had that day(they got hooked BTW) not sure of the smallmouth fishing but these are stocked trout waters. and there was a family fishing that seemed pissed at us even though our paddles never touched the water in their vacinity.