dworshak-dam

Dworshak Dam is a feature on North Fork Clearwater River, Idaho.

Cuts off the lower North Fork and ended the historic summer-steelhead run (Perfect Fly Store, North Idaho Rivers). The river below it to the mouth is the part some people call the Dworshak tailwater, but no fly source or IDFG page uses 'tailwater' for it, so no stretch is recorded under that name.

It is upstream of North Fork Confluence.

Sourced from 3 sites.

Sources: Idaho Department of Fish and Game (retrieved 2026-10-20), northidahorivers.com (retrieved 2026-10-20) and The Perfect Fly Store (retrieved 2026-10-20).

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