I will not take the time to resize them all so here is a link.
 
http://s198.photobucket.c...elmashuck/library/7000

Yikes!  And almost no one fishing!
 
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There were 2 at Ellis and a car parked at the Trestle with no one in it.

From a flood to 285 in a week or so,guides with drift boats gotta love this water management LOL!

With ya on that one jack... what was potentially gonna be a dropback season in to june just got sliced to just a few more days between the high flows to puddles. you should see the amount of salmon smolt that got trapped in puddles as they kept stepping the water down. I havent checked yet but i would imagine there are mamy steelhead that are being stressed out in the upper stretches of altmar... they most likely wont make it. Anything left in the hatchery and creeks probably wont make it... luckily many fish did make it back to the lower river and have the deep pools to hold up in....

If the fish could go upriver in 285 cfs why is it they can't go down under the same flow?
I understand some fish will be stranded in back channals but not the majority.
Warm water will have them leaving sooner than later but even as stressed as they are after spawning they can just let go and drift with the current like a foul hooked king.
As always most the males will hang out to long to make it, but they always do.
Studies on the west coast have shown that 90%+ of return spawners are females.
   
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=B8m5p6V_NPQ

Bob, a few of the holding ponds look like a downtown bar just before closing time if ya know what i mean...lol

Yes, 285 is navigable.... but its gonna slow them down and from what i understand there were quite a few up top still... back in february they ran it 2 grand for more than a week and shut it down. I fished between the two bridges in town annd both back channels had dead and dying fish in them. I managed to save two of them and get them back to the main river. Hopefully a good percent makes it... the water is gonna do nothing but sky rocket from here...

River is 281 right now.............