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Good news, bad news
Good news: with the snow-rain we had this winter, we finally broke our 6 years of severe drought (as in one year, we had little over 30% of average).
Bad news: we're at flood watch, greenbelt portions are closed due to flooding, town below us is flooded out, and I have NO idea where the fish are.
Good news: our Fish and Game folks are some of the best, and they'll be restocking the rivers.
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Diane,
Good and bad news for all of Idaho, lots of water but lots of flooding, even over here in the east.
Jon
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Jon from Idaho
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dianeID some of my friends have been going to the horsshoe bend pond with wb and catching a bunch of trout just planted there. At least it gets the winter blahs out
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Thanks for the feedback... We've been using the ponds around here to stretch our arms, but catching only a few small guys. We let them all go and give them a chance to grow up. I'm just looking for dinner...
As my eldest said, "I want to catch something, invite him home, dress him in lemon and pepper."
Waiting for the river to lower....
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My friends caught 11 in 1 hour all around 10 to 12 inches. We are finally taking a break this sunday and going up to check out a couple of resevoirs and then stoping at the pond.
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I sure wish you could send some our way. Mid April and we are already under a drought watch. My favorite local still water is showing about six feet of shorline that should be under water right now. Several of our counties have burn and open fire bans. I watched the forest service put out a wild fire near Newport, Pa the other day.
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Eric "nighthawk"
American veteran and proud of it!
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Sorry, Nighthawk, I'm keeping all this water and hoping for a repeat for next year. (Besides, weren't you guy complaining about the rainy days last year?) One more good year and maybe--big maybe--we'll be caught up with our half-filled lakes and water systems.
The water-guy (hydrologist?) that this year snowpack ended the 6-year-drought, but we haven't had the river filled in 9 years. We also haven't it this high in nearly 2 decades. I'll say that this area is overdue.
Two years ago, because of the dry conditions, they put a stop to open campfires in July. Anyone camping had to use coleman stoves or sterno. Ever tried to make s'mores on any of those? We didn't even go camping then. What's the point?
I checked the river today in Boise, and it is running deep, fast, and dirty. I saw one skipper on the edge. I can't even see our favorite mallard spots. The downside is that the geese were already laying their eggs (I've seen one set of goslings so far), and if they were near the water's edge, the eggs are gone. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/frown.gif
The nice bit is that our wild blackberry patch is nice and muddy...which means good fat berries for jams, muffins, pies, etc. The last few years were skinny guys....
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Boy do I remember that time. we did not camp either. Here in Idaho we have lots of water year to date what a blessing. I certainly hope it does not go to waste. We in idaho tend to gripe about the weather and no where to fish now but what a blessing. I agree with Diane that we need it and I hope we get more next year maybe our great state will once again have excellent fishing it is know for.
For those of you that re not getting the rain I can certainly empethise with you we have been there to long ourselfs
