RANTINGS AND RAVINGS OF AN OLD MAN TRULY RUINED BY SPORT

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Fly Fishing: Big Hole Flood Tour

Once an upper Big Hole hay meadow yesterday morphed into Jackson Lake...
A few miles down river between Jackson and Wisdom swollen river has left hundreds of barn swallows homeless and no doubt drowned hundreds of nestlings beneath the bridge....
The flow here (yesterday p.m.) is plus 9400 cfs; far river right is the only way to get under Browne's Bridge at this level...good luck trying to get back across to the takeout... This morning the flow at Glen topped 10,000 cfs and if you are fool enough to be out there better take a close look here before launching upstream...
On another related track I heard yesterday from several reliable sources that Clark Canyon Creek is once again trashing the river below High Bridge. In other words combined with the muddy water coming in at Grasshopper the Beav is once more effectively kaput except for the short stretch below the dam. Have fun...

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