SPLAIN THIS TO ME

[Dutch]

I was about 2.miles up the James beyond the confluence of the James and Flat.  There was no wind.  I had only been drinking water.   I was fishing with the boat pointing up stream. The debris was moving up the stream also.  It was going faster than my boat.  How could this happen?  I thought that water ran down hill.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Heat stroke???😀

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, Dutch said:

I was about 2.miles up the James beyond the confluence of the James and Flat.  There was no wind.  I had only been drinking water.   I was fishing with the boat pointing up stream. The debris was moving up the stream also.  It was going faster than my boat.  How could this happen?  I thought that water ran down hill.

it is called a back current.  when you shut off the water all that movement hits a dead end, and then has to back up.  just watch the water slosh back and forth in any container.  same thing happens in a lake.

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[Dutch]

That makes sense, though it wasn’t happening in Flat Creek.

[MOPanfisher]

Probably not enough flow in flat creek compared to the james.

[GNSfishing]

The flow into Tablerock from Beaver lake and other sources was enough to create a back flow of water pushing debris and mud line up stream. It will reverse as the inflows subside towards normal flows.

[tjm]

2 hours ago, GNSfishing said:

The flow into Tablerock from Beaver lake and other sources was enough to create a back flow of water pushing debris and mud line up stream. It will reverse as the inflows subside towards normal flows.

Or the flow in the James was not enough to keep it above the lake level, kinda the same thing.

[fishinwrench]

Yep, she's backwatering up.   

The fish don't like it when it does that either.  Shuts them down worse than any frontal passage.....or at least it does here on my end of LakeO.