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Rainbow Guide Service

Rainbow Guide Service

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Rainbow Guide Service is a fishing guide service based in Burkesville, Kentucky. They offer trips on the Cumberland River for striped bass and brown trout, and on Dale Hollow for smallmouth bass and crappie. The service can accommodate groups ranging from one to twenty people.

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Fishing Types
Trout Fishing, Bass Fishing

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Typical flow by month

2014 to 2025

The water at Rainbow Guide Service typically runs highest in March, at a median 21,700 cfs, and lowest in November, at 4,865 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 59,000 cfs, in 2019.

Typical flow by month at Cumberland River at Burkesville, KY, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January11,4006,210 to 21,100
February13,8007,500 to 25,900
March21,70010,100 to 28,900
April13,2505,235 to 25,500
May8,0105,030 to 17,800
June6,5904,935 to 8,460
July7,9806,380 to 11,800
August8,4506,620 to 9,890
September6,8205,530 to 8,635
October5,5003,550 to 7,260
November4,8653,555 to 7,965
December8,6304,660 to 17,800

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 10 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Cumberland River at Burkesville, KY (site 03414100). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

Current conditions

91Go/ 100 conditions scoreBest day: Fri, Sep 25 (94)

High today

81°F

Wind

6 kt

Gusts 15 kt

Rain chance

8%

Week ahead

Tue81°F8%
Wed82°F14%
Thu80°F11%
Fri79°F1%
Sat82°F1%
Sun81°F1%
Mon82°F5%

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF). See full conditions →

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