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The fish are all heading home.

Posted on September 07 2022

It wasn't a hurricane (or even a tropical depression for that matter), but it did the job and threatens to do more. Twenty four hours of rain, much of it no more than a light mist but it sure helped.  Unfortunately the rivers above the reservoirs didn't seem to receive as much rain as we did. Yesterday at 7:45 I crossed the BR with ease. Tonight I could run my flats skiff with it's 90hp Yamaha up it without a worry of hitting a rock. 

The fishing - Yes there was some.  No, the river wasn't filled with boats with sports throwing streamers but there were six cars in the red barn lot and the Stilesville "Fishermen Park Here" lot was full, with overflow cars parked along the road. Never saw a boat, the Men's Club lot was empty and there was little if anyone fishing below Oquaga. My river friend Mike and I fished above the Deposit town bridge, one angler was below the bridge and one above us. The olive hatch was sparse, to say the least and I never saw an iso or a sulfur. 

The outlook - It is a very slow moving system. The WB is dropping, and if there are no heavy rains overnight, it will all fishable tomorrow. The rest of the system is peaking as I write. Lordville at about 9,000 cfs and the EB at about 7,000 cfs. They will both be unwadeable for several days. Why? The grounds crew has been unable to hire enough people post covid and they just couldn't get the tarps rolled out in time.

Someone help me please. As many have no doubt noticed, neither typing nor spelling are in my wheelhouse but  both wadeable and unwadeable are both words I need to use in these reports. Wadeable seems to pass muster but unwadeable gets a redline every time. Which of the spell check alternatives would you rather I use unfadeable or unwedgeable? 

2 comments

  • Jim N: September 07, 2022

    Unwedgeable??
    That’s not a word! It’s underlined in my response.

    Maybe you need an abbreviation like you use for the rivers.
    “The UEB is UW today”.

  • Greg Tarris: September 07, 2022

    not wadeable

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