E-12ers:
Attached is the updated information on the water flows in our backyard. Keep a close eye on this chart as what we now want is a bell curve to ensue ideally with the water flow peaking during the last weeks of May (on or before Memorial Day) and then subsiding to around 1500 cubic feet per second as they did in our last “normal” year, 2009.
On the attached chart we have provided flow information dating back to the drought year of 2007 (with ensuing fires that burned a good portion of our Rock Creek drainage—see our blog for that year for a truly harrowing fire log by yours truly), high water years of 2008 and last year’s epic 2011 (each of which years we had to [successfully] trek to the Missouri River for quality fishing opportunities) and the semi-sane years of 2009 and 2010.
Again, our flow is based on our backyard’s Rock Creek where SNOTEL is indicating that snow levels (with the recent early runoff) are currently at 82% of normal. Showing the differences of relatively close other valleys, our targeted fishing waters on the Bitterroot are showing their mountains’ snow pack at 94% of 20 year average and our primo Big “A River Runs Through It” Blackfoot watershed at 110% of “normal” (whatever the heck that is any more!).
Summary: So far, so good—now, may the bell curve be with us!!
We will keep you updated on a bi-weekly basis; also, you can see these postings on (y)our blogsite [which you now should be frequently checking] this, Der Blog.
RCR----<’///><
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