A little help

[hank franklin]

M. Sculpin has a hard time with lit-er-a-cy you might say. Boy don't read too well. His spelling and grammar is south of average and at times borderline atrocious. But he can fish, so all is good.

That aside, we could use some input on river levels. The Tecumseh gage today is 3.43. discharge 956 cfs, way over normal. This would indicate to me that the river is up but still in the floatable range. My feeling is if the discharge gets much higher we'd be in wild and woolly territory.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[BrianK]

Brian Wise can give better input on this but i would think no problem floating in the 1000-1500 range. river is still wadable / fishable there too but makes it a little tougher.

Keep us posted.

bk

[Brian Wise]

Floating in the 1000's cfs is very doable. When it comes to fishing though it is really hard to get to the spots where you need to be to fish CFS like that. It can be done but by all means BE CAREFUL, when you wade in wade to where you are comfortable and take a step back. Fish long leaders/tippet so you can get the fly down. I would go 12' to the first fly and then drop something off of that fly. Use a lot of weight and get stellar drifts. If you plan on using streamers a sinktip is the only way to go.

By the way, Kelley Ford isn't a bridge it is actually the dead-end of a county road and really has pretty good parking for what it is.

Brian