Amounts of Rain

It hasn't appeared to have rained as much near the streams as they were calling for on Monday.  Any update on conditions?  I haven't seen much on the report board, probably because everyone is fishing.  I can thank the weatherman for my lack of attendance.

Brandy Run is @ 183 CFS and gage ht almost 2 ft - that's screamin......you ain't missing nothin.

Driving across the wintergreen gorge I90 the creek below was jammin. I'm sure all other are blown out too.

I found it, but I guess I still need to know what would be considered normal or average.

Thanks for the info

Brandy run gage can be tricky.  It's usually accurate to the point of letting you know the extremes: if it's blown out or if it's really low.  In the middle can be tricky depend on how the rain falls.  After a good long rain, brandy usually tells the tales relatively accurate.   Between 8-20 is good for the West side.  14 being great.  But then again, my "prime" may be different than yours.  When I say prime, I'm refering to flow AND color.  All you can do is check it before you go and monitor it.  I remember after Hurricane Ivan, the water was "high but clear."  If I was a traveler at the time, I would have thought the water was cookin' and brown.  The fact was that the water was gin clear, yet plowing.  Fish hugged the edges that week just like they would in high dirty water.  It certainly gave the streams a different look.  While this was an extreme case and we may never have two hurricanes in a such a short time again, it's an example of stream gages being deceiving.  Best you can do, is learn all the streams, and you'll always have a place to fish, no matter the conditions.  Maybe not the most exciting but..

Forget the rain, it's snowing.
 
And as far as reading Brandy Run, you really need to see Elk enough times at various levels to make a decent judgement.  It's tricky.