Greetings, Extravagant Ones, mid-International Wildlife Film Festival [finally, a daytime break from it all!], where rain has now replaced snow as the daily fare BUT the rivers' runoff has yet to begin in earnest. With still 104% of seasonal average snow pack wedged tightly in and on the upper mountain reaches, we are still tapping our toe here, awaiting the runoff that we want, expect and need to assure our prime time fishing as Extravaganza 2009 begins, now just five weeks away.
I have attached a(nother) copy of our river discharge report which confirms that "the runoff", indeed, is an event in our future--and, with temperatures forecasted to quickly pop up from the current 30/40/50's into the 70's come this Saturday, fortunately, the runoff should begin in earnest come our next posting on Monday morning. As depicted in the runoff comparison chart, we are safely positioned right in between (a) the early and punishingly low water runoff of 2007 and (b) the equally delayed and legendarily high water runoff of 2008. Come Monday, look to this year's red line to track last year's upward spike that began on May 13th, with a would-be perfect result being that the waters have later subsided right about 1850 cubic feet per second (cfs) as we run out of room on this year's chart.
My bet is that water flowage will top out right about 3000 cfs hopefully as early as next Friday, May 22nd. We want a good, healthy discharge of water to flush out each of the rivers that we are going to be fishing, to then clear up and provide water clarity whereafter the bug life erupts and the fishing in these parts reaches its resultant prime-time.
You can check out all the action and get current weather updates on (y)our Extravaganza 2009 blogsite!
Best to all from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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