Gauge Reading Vs Lane Springs?

[mdrstl]

A fly fishing buddy and I got Father’s Day passes for Sunday. I wanted to show him the Little Piney. The Newburg gauge at 5:30am showed 1850 cfs so we headed to Tan Vat. Since the fishing wasn’t stellar, we left around noon and decided to head home via Lane Springs. I wanted to show my friend the spot and we’d hope it may be fishable. Fishable it was. The water actually looked a bit better than when I was there the evening of the 8th even though the gauge at noon showrd ~450cfs.

I thought <350cfs was when things got dicey, but based on what I saw Sunday, it wasn’t an issue. Do I have wrong base-line or is this an anomaly which may be associated with the flash nature of the rain combined with the distance between the Park and the gauge?

thanks

[Gavin]

Lane Spring is about 13 miles upstream of the Newburg Guage so allot could have happened...maybe it rained hard on Newburg & not above Lane Spring....There are several tributaries between Lane & Newburg as well. There are no hard & fast rules...The best ones are those that you develop through your own personal experience. Cheers.

[mdrstl]

Lane Spring is about 13 miles upstream of the Newburg Guage so allot could have happened...maybe it rained hard on Newburg & not above Lane Spring....There are several tributaries between Lane & Newburg as well. There are no hard & fast rules...The best ones are those that you develop through your own personal experience. Cheers.

[mdrstl]

Thanks. that's what I thought and developing my own personsal experiance with the LP is a goal i can get into.

MDR

[ozark trout fisher]

Yeah, there are a lot of tributary streams between Lane and Newburg that can change things. The streams biggest non-spring tributary, Beaver Creek, comes in just upriver of Newburg and that can change the water levels a lot. Corn Creek above Vida Slab is another.

You almost just have to see the creek itself to know whether it's fishable. The difference between even Lane Spring and Vida Slab just a few miles downriver can be very significant. It also usually rises very quickly after a rain and drops almost as quickly. It often will only stay unfishable for a few hours after a spike in flows up in the Lane Spring area.