holy crap!

That's about average for storm / flood flow. It goes much, much higher. Attached is the historical record flows.

 

holy crap!

. . . Attached is the historical record flows.

Whoa! 80,000 cubic feet per SECOND in 1991? Atsalotawatta!

K

 

Probably a dumb question, but at what flows due you start losing redds??

 

Now. But talking about redds. I was on the Sultan before all of this rain hit and the redds from the Humpies were high and dry. They spawned when there was high water from the releases and when they stopped with the releases the water dropped. That left many redds high and dry. It's really a shame for that to happen,but mother nature always seems to provide.

Jim

 

Probably a dumb question, but at what flows due you start losing redds??

Here in the Snoqualmie Valley, of greater concern is the question, at what flows do you start losing cows.

The fish are much better equiped to take care of themselves.

TC

 

124th across the valley in duvall is underwater...look out, cows. here it comes

 

When I checked yesterday the mainstem near the falls was at 18,100 cfs currently it's at 14,600 cfs. Surprisingly it's dropping. 24 Straight days of rain bawling:

 

Similar to the Snoq, the Sky is up there too. Yesterday at 14:15 the Gage
height rose to 12.86 and the streem flow increased to 25,800. YIKES!!!

I better get back to my ark now!
Noah - AKA Turtle

 

Now. But talking about redds. I was on the Sultan before all of this rain hit and the redds from the Humpies were high and dry. They spawned when there was high water from the releases and when they stopped with the releases the water dropped. That left many redds high and dry. It's really a shame for that to happen,but mother nature always seems to provide.

Jim

I know that chum redds can be dewatered for a while before the eggs die. As long as there is inter-gravel flow and fry have been observed to emerge out side-ways to the flowing creeks. Amazing fish ! Hopefully Pinks are as smart as chum .

 

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SKY is below 10k...wonder what color it is though...

 

I went past it yesterday and it was a good color of brown with logs floating down it. It was moving just a little to fast for me to play around in it. The same can be said for the Pilchuck River.

Jim

 

I checked out both the Sky and the Snoqualmie this morning, and fished both a bit. The Sky was in better shape than the Sno, but both were pretty dicey -- the water quality at the Sky wasn't too bad, but the Sno was still a bit chocolatey. If we could just buy a full day without rain, I think we'd be in business.

 

I fished the SF Snoqualmie today from about 10:00 a.m. to noon. No hits on prince nymph, bh pheasant tail, bh woolley bugger, sz 8 red humpy, grhe, bunny leech, bitch creek nymph. the water was clear, but VERY cold and kinda high. i think i'm done with rivers 'til I hear about a good hatch going on. the middle fork was muddy when i drove over it to look. i'm sure the north fork is the same as the south fork.