much needed rain

[Brian Sloss]

The past couple of days we have gotten some much needed rain. The water levels are currently 4 ft over normal levels and have risen over 4.5 ft in 2 days. It is running like chocolate milk right now and won't be fishable probably until next week. Hopefully, this will help raise water levels for a good while to come. Also, I'm hoping this will help our spawn this fall. The fisheries biologist has told me that part of the reason for poor spawns in the past has been a lack of good fall floods to clean the small rocks in the river. Well we just got that and the fish were just beginning their fall spawn. Hopefully as the water recedes, the trout trying to spawn will have improved results.