BirdTrout
Open the map
Gile Dam, Wisconsin
Gile Dam on the West Fork, Montreal Rive in Wisconsin.
Open in BirdTrout46.425424, -90.226588 · Iron County · NID WI00042. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
West Fork, Montreal Rive carries no anadromous run on our corridor map, so this page makes no claim about salmon or steelhead at this dam. What it sits on is coldwater — resident trout water — and the section below says which classification says so.
The structure
- Purpose
- Other
- Completed
- 1941
- Type
- Earth
- Height
- 30 ft
- Length
- 899 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled, 16 ft wide
- Storage
- 38,000 acre-ft · 3,317 acre pool
- Condition
- Fair · High hazard potential
- Status
- Under Investigation, Planning, Permitting, or Design for Remediation
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- West Fork Montreal River 0.29 mi from the dam · Class II · wild supplemented (WDNR) · typed Cold
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
No USGS temperature gauge we read reports within 20 miles of this dam, so this page has no live number for it. That is a gap in the gauge network, not a judgement about the water.
Getting to it
- Gile Flowage Access 0.1 mi · boat launch · Gile Flowage
- Hwy C Boat Ramp 2.0 mi · boat launch · Gile Flowage
- 4-H Landing 2.8 mi · boat launch · Gile Flowage
- Gile Flowage Boat Access 3.9 mi · boat launch · Gile Flowage
- Weber Lake Campground Boat Launch 8.0 mi · boat launch · Weber Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Big Sno Outfitters 9.3 mi
- Anglers All 32.1 mi · Ashland
- River Rock Bait Shop 33.8 mi