900 cfs !!!!!

I guess they are getting ready for a blow out.This is n't looking good for me as I may have to cancel this trip to stay home to clear any possible downed trees and help the wife in case of power failure.And if it's running at 900 now what will it be by Wed.?

900 is great for me heading up for next two days, plug rods will be screaming with pics to follow!

900 cuts down on available water for wading . I'm still planning on going Sun., maybe Monday if they don't increase it.  If it goes up more than a few hundred of run-off on top of the 900 , just not worth the drive  for me. 
 
 

I think I'm out unless some chrome is in the tribs

Must be making room in the lower reservoir for  expectations of local runoff -that upper  is so low it may take 2 or 3 storms to have an impact.

Trev, it took a few days but that last rain storm around the last time i saw you brought the level up quite a bit in the upper reservoir... it was mostly runoff from the northeastern headwaters... it took a few days to get there but thats why they have been running 335 up until yesterday...

I'm going to have to pull the plug on a sun-mon trip. Not due to the 900 but my ill preparedness at home for any severe weather .
I'm nowhere near ready for winter or any major weather events that may come.

Charlie I feel bad and wish you a great day if you guys make the trip.

Dime-
You could be seeing a much more major blowout if we get the rain predicted. I heard 6" by this time next week.  As someone who likes more fight due to warmer water, with less of it so the flyrod is manageable with next to no weight, this one could end the season for me.  I'm with Retired, 750 and up gets a little squirelly.
 
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I HATE using big weights and high water makes it necessary more often than not. Generally skip the fly rod and have to spin my way through a trip in that big water. Not my cupa tea anymore. Like the noodle with 10 lb and sacs for steel now and again but frankly got into rolling sacs with the Switch last year and cant stop. That wont cut the mustard for me at my skill levels over 750.
  Dont really like more than a couple of BB size wts on  my line- at most. Yea -it may cost me some fish but  I aint there to break any catch records,

  Got this crazy mental thing where I get almost as much pleasure out of working a fly line and putting it just where  intended over and over almost as much as catching fishes. Yea a fish is always the true target but I LOVE the process just as much. Nuts
 Stood in the Bovines last Fall working a run with a log sticking into it for about 2 hours just working around the log. NO fishes but a great day.  Nuts
  Never shot Bambi the year before last- Just sat there and passed and watched - a few times too--. Nuts
  Sometimes  good memories dont have to involve Blood- but then there are those days where the Predator comes alive an he gotta be fed. Nuts
 Somethin about knowing there are way more trips afield behind than there are ahead- makes ya kinda sit back and enjoy the whole picture -even the frame- a bit more.  Nuts

That's cool and sometimes the experience is priceless . Other times the price comes at a cost.
Honestly I have beautiful water behind my house and cast my fly till the moon comes out, No steelhead though. A few dumb stripers caught on live herring.

My bad..
 
335 Tomorrow..