Carver Gauge

[budman]

Going to float on the Buffalo, three days, two nights and going to do some gravel bar camping. The only places I can see that have enough water  is from Saint Joe down stream. Checking the Pruitt gauge shows 31 CFS, too low to float. At carver there is only a height gauge and it is showing 6.27 feet. That doesn't tell me much. I know that the little buffalo and Big Creek are between Pruitt and Carver, so the flow has to be above the 31 CFS at Pruitt but below the 201 CFS at Saint Joe. Any idea if the river would have enough water to float from Carver to Bakers Ford or Tyler Bend?

[Al Agnew]

14 hours ago, budman said:

Going to float on the Buffalo, three days, two nights and going to do some gravel bar camping. The only places I can see that have enough water  is from Saint Joe down stream. Checking the Pruitt gauge shows 31 CFS, too low to float. At carver there is only a height gauge and it is showing 6.27 feet. That doesn't tell me much. I know that the little buffalo and Big Creek are between Pruitt and Carver, so the flow has to be above the 31 CFS at Pruitt but below the 201 CFS at Saint Joe. Any idea if the river would have enough water to float from Carver to Bakers Ford or Tyler Bend?

I'd guess there would barely be enough water to float from Carver down.  Probably something like 75 cfs at Carver.  Keep in mind that there's a losing reach below Woolum where a good part of the river's flow sinks underground in low water conditions, so you might have a couple miles where you will be doing a lot of dragging, it's just hard to say.  But 200 cfs is PLENTY of water at St. Joe, so I'd guess you'd be okay.