Floating 28/29

[tricky ricky]

does anybody know if it doable this week from tan vat to cedar grove?or cedar grove to pultite? what conditions can I expect?

[eric1978]

http://waterdata.usg...Ameter_cd=00065,00060

[KCRIVERRAT]

Cedar Grove to Pulltite? You fishing or paddling bud?

[tricky ricky]

I plan on fly fishing/ camping for 2 days if the rain stays away I will be bringing my canoe will have to arange a shuttle from one end to the otherI just didn't know if the river will be back down before wed. I checked all river gauges but not real sure about what it will be on wed. am thanks for any info.

[eric1978]

If it doesn't rain anymore, my guess will be high but floatable by Wednesday. A couple of the Current regulars will probably chime in here with acceptable cfs flows for that section. Looks like average flows for this time of year is around 400-500 cfs (based on only 8 years of data...so take that with a grain of salt), and it's at about 700 and dropping now.

[Randall]

I check the river level at Montauk generally. The river is perfect for me from the park down to Akers when in the 150-250 cfs range at that gauge. When you start getting above 300 its going to get a little high and fast. I don't check the downstream gauge b/c I don't mess around down there much. If the rain holds off, the river is at 150 right now, so it'll be a little on the shallow side between tan vat and Baptist. I'd suggest wading from tan vat to baptist and floating from there. Watch out for the fallen tree downstream of Baptist. If you don't portage around it, you'll be in trouble. I don't know anything about the river downstream of cedar grove.

I believe Eric is referring to the Akers gauge and I really don't know what you want to look for on that one.

[eric1978]

I believe Eric is referring to the Akers gauge and I really don't know what you want to look for on that one.

Yes, it's the Akers gage. I posted the link to it because he mentioned going down to Pulltite. That's the gage I would watch if I was doing that float.

[tricky ricky]

anybody know if river will be clear,stained or milky. thanks again for the info. ive floated this section many times but never relly made any kind of a log on river conditions.

[Gavin]

Drove by the Current on the way home from the NFoW yesterday...The water was perfect, up a tad with just a bit of cloud in the water.....Only fished for an hour, but I caught 7...One on a big stonefly, but the rest on a brown mohair leach. Should be fine wading till it gets to 3.0 at Akers. NPS usually closes the river to float traffic at around 3.5 on the Akers guage, but I've had good floating and fishing at that level. Cheers.

[tricky ricky]

thanks gavin for some good info ill be packing some mohair leaches and stoneflys give ya report when I get back