How to Use tailwater in a Sentence

tailwater

noun
  • But 168 miles of cold tailwater trout streams were created in their place.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • There is also a creek, a blue-ribbon tailwater trout stream and large reservoirs for boating and fishing.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2018
  • As Brantley notes, the ways the rivers are managed can impact the fishing, but most tailwaters are fishable at least some of the time in late summer.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
  • There are still waters that are iced over, so anglers will have to primarily rely on tailwaters, which refer to the waters below dams or any other structure that regulates water flow.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
  • But the project would have been costly, especially considering the fact that most of the Klamath Project’s tailwater ends up in the sump and would have to be diverted.
    — Herald and News, oregonlive, 15 June 2021
  • Larger tailwaters located below reservoirs with regular cold-water releases are also good places to focus your fishing.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
  • Matt takes Eddie fishing on his driftboat on the Watauga River, a big, brawling tailwater that flows through eastern Tennessee.
    — Field & Stream, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Brantley's farm began to have issues back in 2000 with a few pumps running dry in the alluvial aquifer, and his family got to work building reservoirs and tailwater recovery systems.
    — Ashton Eley, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2021
  • Then there’s the marvel that is the tailrace tunnel (the channel that discharged the tailwater back to the river), built in the early 1900s with little more than pickaxes, shovels and rudimentary dynamite.
    — Laura Randall, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • One of the benefits to this particular southern Colorado tailwater is the ease and accessibility of two major highways bringing you right to Pueblo’s stretch of the Arkansas.
    — Patricia Cameron, The Know, 22 June 2019
  • At Pickwick, Captain Brian Barton reports continuing good action on catfish, white bass and some big smallmouth in the tailwaters, with the cats taking drifted skipjack, the white bass and smallmouth caught on jigs and small swimbaits.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • At the Algonquin tailwater, waters are expected to rise to over 12 feet by Thursday morning before receding, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Water Prediction Service.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026

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