Took a long ride today resevoir is LOW found a pic from 1/27

Had to run some errands in Pulaski and forgot my boots and gear so I took a long ride today.

Grindstone creek estuary. Fished it for a bit. Only had the fly on the rod. Nothing doing here.

Salmon river estuary

DSR 5 cars in the lot

Town pool no one fishing

Altmar below the bridge it was packed there

LFZ stayed for 5 minutes or so saw 3 hook ups

Church pool at 1:30 I SOOOOOO wanted to stay there was no one there

Salmon river falls notice no water coming over

Jackson road boat launch on Upper res. Notice the small creek coming in you could see the water flowing . This is to the right of the launch. I never knew it was there. That area is usually 8 feet deep here.

Bridge in Redfield

Upper upper res

Notice the water lines on the bridge.
The res is at a VERY CONSERVATIVE guess 6 to 8 feet lower than it should be this time of year. I could see current flowing in places I have only seen in the dog days of summer after a month without rain. I honestly have not seen it this low in quite a few years and then that was in the summer. There very little snow in Redfield for run off and if we do not get rain soon, and alot of it, flows will be WAY down.

Clint,thank you for the tour :)
That reservoir is really low and there is n't a ton of snow on the ground to fill it,maybe it'll start to rain one of these days.Locally in SE Pa. the streams are real low. It looks like late spring early summer flows,the trout season opens here the end of month and it is going to be awfull if it does n't rain and the ten day does n't hold much promise.

Clint, that pic of the church pool makes me want to go up there. I would have been on the other side of you at that hole.

Clint thanks for the pic's.. Looks pretty sweet for early March.. Well weather wise , not so much water wise..
G-stone seemed to have a little out flow with the rain we got weds but still , need to get those sand bars under water for some fish to enter.. Would be nice if they dredged it out a little (imo)..
Fichy may be quite right, unless some big rains come the fishing may be slow..
Generally once the estuary becomes ice free that signals a push after that it's just a matter of whats left out there..
While I know the flows are down the water tables are good.. We have had a pretty wet late fall through winter, just no snow pack.. I think the east will be ok at least for a while..
ssgt12, I'm sure we have crossed paths..

with such a nice day and week ahead I hear that tractor calling you .. lol..

Thanks again Clint, hope to see ya soon..

Rumor has it the upper reservoir is gaining alot of water as the snow/ground melt off continues.

3fan, have you been taking advantage of these higher flows with your boat and plugs? I imagine its just about that time

Is this why they are letting so much water out? It has been 1200 CFS for the last couple of days at least.

I would have thought they would give it a bit to let the upper fill before letting out 1200. I do not think it is about power production because I think I remember reading somewhere that 500 or 750 cfm is all they need for production, anything over that just goes through he wast gates.

ORIGINAL: pafisher

We all know the boys at the dam know what they're doing

You can say that again jack

Clint as long as there is more coming in than going out the reservoir should fill up.

ORIGINAL: Clint S

I hope so Dime I do a some fishing up there in the summer.

I hope the best also clint. Never targeted the upper reservoir myself. Have heard you can drive your truckout on it in dry summers though. Its quite a waterway... its like a feast or famine deal... its a shame the headwater can't retain a larger volume of water than it does