: a race for conveying water away from a point of industrial application (such as a waterwheel or turbine) after use
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Over the course of several days this April, Dahl fished a deep tailrace of the Cannon River just below a dam.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
In 2021, 2,500 cutthroats were stocked in the Boone tailrace area, and some of those fish are resurfacing now.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
The tailrace is scheduled to receive more than 20,000 trout spanning 11 stockings this season, most scheduled after Christmas.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
The Canyon Lake tailrace is the oldest of all the stocking sites.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
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
The Watauga River in Elizabethton and the South Holston River in Bluff City offer excellent tailrace fishing, which involves angling just below natural or man-made dams.
—Neil Norman, Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2020
Actually, the tailrace of all of the TVA dams in Alabama—Guntersville, Wheeler and Wilson—are productive smallmouth fisheries.
—Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Nov. 2021
Anglers also can find excellent tailrace fishing opportunities at the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake and the Brazos River below Possum Kingdom.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
In 2021, 2,500 cutthroats were stocked in the Boone tailrace area, and some of those fish are resurfacing now.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
The tailrace is scheduled to receive more than 20,000 trout spanning 11 stockings this season, most scheduled after Christmas.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
The Canyon Lake tailrace is the oldest of all the stocking sites.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
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
The Watauga River in Elizabethton and the South Holston River in Bluff City offer excellent tailrace fishing, which involves angling just below natural or man-made dams.
—Neil Norman, Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2020
Actually, the tailrace of all of the TVA dams in Alabama—Guntersville, Wheeler and Wilson—are productive smallmouth fisheries.
—Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Nov. 2021
Anglers also can find excellent tailrace fishing opportunities at the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake and the Brazos River below Possum Kingdom.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
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“Tailrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailrace. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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