Help: River level

[Mark]

I'm not familiar with river levels on the Current and have a 3 day weekend. River is at 4100 cfs at Van Buren this morning. Is that a total wash out for fishing?

[moguy1973]

I'm no expert on the Current and what flows are good or not, but if you look at the USGS flow page it shows that average around this time of year is half that amount of flow.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?07067000

[Mark]

Yeah, I know it is up, just not familiar enough to know if it is totally blown out and out of it's banks, or what is too high for decent fishing.

[awhuber]

The park service has the

River closed from Logyard to Gooseneck.

[Al Agnew]

Yeah, and still some high water coming down it from the upper Current and the Jacks Fork.  Probably won't be fishable this weekend at Van Buren.  Possibly fishable upstream, like from Round Spring to Two Rivers, but it will still be high.

[ness]

Sorry if this is a little bit of a hijack, but what's a good rule of thumb for fishability at the Montauk gage? My notes say 3' and it's currently only 1.9. 

[Mark]

Looks like southern streams are out.

[snagged in outlet 3]

26 minutes ago, ness said:

Sorry if this is a little bit of a hijack, but what's a good rule of thumb for fishability at the Montauk gage? My notes say 3' and it's currently only 1.9. 

Water goes down quick in the Park.  They ran us out of the campground a few years ago because it flooded.  Back in there fishing two days later.

[awhuber]

This just in from the Park Service.

RIVER CLOSED
The Current River is CLOSED from Pulltite to Gooseneck and the Jacks Fork is CLOSED from Buck Hollow to Two Rivers. The Current above Pulltite and the Jacks Fork above Buck Hollow currently remain OPEN.

[jtram]

2 hours ago, Mark said:

Looks like southern streams are out.

Nope, look again......