Blown Out

[Brian Sloss]

The river is blown out as of today and hopefully will be fishable by late this week before the weekend. It is running brown and rolling very fast. I'll give updates on the levels over the next few days.

[Brian Sloss]

Crested at close to 9000cfs and now for the decline. Will probably take a few days to get safe again.

[steve l]

Thanks for the update Brian. Doesn't appear to have been a major major flood, but let us know if it caused any changes.

[snap]

My!!! looks like we just got off the river in time! Arrived tuesday and spent half a day on on the river tueday, and most of the day wednesday and thursday.....and the river was in excellent shape. Everything was green....the water, landscape, ....beautiful as I have ever seen it!!! Not much traffic any of the days on the river and the fishing was good. Fish were hanging in the fastest water at the top of the holes.....3 to 4 feet of water.......saw an eagle while sitting at bliss hanging out. This bird came flying up river, did about 5 circles over us, then headed up the spring direction. We think he/she was showing off his/her catch because we had no fish at the time and he/she was toting around a ten to twelve inch fish. Pretty cool sight!!!!.....Also saw a local fishing out of a kayak with a snoopy pole with a 6 lb 6 oz rainbow that was 25 inches long...... While leaving on Friday morning, we saw a group of 7 canoes putting in at greer loaded down for camping......hoping they made it outta there ok!!!!

[Brian Sloss]

They got out fine. Due to the forecast, I had them camp at Turner and was therefore able to drive down and pick them up when it became obvious the river was going to get too high.

[Brian Sloss]

Down to about 2500 cfs and a slightly lighter shade of brown. Could posibly put people in by Wed, but more likely on Thur. If I can, I may do a kayak from Cane Bluff to Greer to make sure the route is clear as I have some groups planning to start up there on Monday.

[Terrierman]

There's a group of us planning to take an overnighter Thursday and Friday on one of our local streams. It peaked at about 14' on Saturday night and it's already back to about 5'. Absent any more significant rain this week, I'm thinking Thursday and Friday will be as close to ideal as we're likely to get. That's one of the good/bad things about these Ozarks streams, man oh man are they flashy, come up fast (it rose about 6' in an hour in the middle of the night Thursday) - dangerously fast at times - but they get back to reasonably normal quickly too.

[go4ducks2]

Don't get your hopes too high....more darn rain in the forecast.