Water Level

[drew03cmc]

darn. That is really high. I guess you should have tried to fish it That could have been fun.

[RSBreth]

Wow - thanks for the pictures, I was going to get over there but meaningless and stupid things like work got in the way.

The Trout will be just fine, one of my favorite lines from a John Gierach story was the part about a massive and record-breaking flood his local Trout stream, the part about him worrying about how the Trout would cope, and his buddy A.K. Best saying "If floods like this killed all the Trout, there wouldn't be any Trout left." Or something like that - I'm paraphrasing.

Anyway - it's their environment, and most will be just fine. Some small or weak ones may fall, but maybe that's more food for those who are stronger.

I don't know - obviously I'm not a biologist - but after every flood I've gone back to Crane some time later and there's the Trout rising to a sparse Caddis hatch or whatever, right where you'd expect them to be.

[Bill Anderson]

In the 100+ years those trout haven been in Crane, I'm sure they have seen some whopper floods. They'll survive just fine, I willing to bet.