For information on the streamflows ...
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Originally Posted by
pittendrigh
What are the flows on the Lochsa now? I used to hang out with a kayaking bunch that made an annual early season pilgrimage, from Bozeman to the Lochsa, so they could experience the ongoing rapture of near death white-watering, for days at a time. When they showed me their film slides (this was a while back) I decided to choose life. And didn't go with them. I did do the Gallatin Canyon, a week off peak high water, the first week I had my new kayak. So I got a taste or two of that rapture too. Adrenaline that thick is addicting.
... follow the link, Sandy.
You'll have to "wade" through quite a bit of material on the dull stuff, like fishing and fish and flies and banter, but you might even enjoy some of that while you are tracking the streamflows since late March.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...p?45688-Lochsa
If you start at the end of the thread, you'll get the information you're asking about sooner rather than later.
As to the kayaking, a lot of the traffic that I see going and coming are rigs carrying kayaks and rafts for the white water rides. I don't see any boating on the stretches of the river that I fish. They are all headed on further down the river. Not sure why. A couple narrow canyon sections where I fish should give anyone enough thrills for a day.
This pic is from 6-8-11, when the 2011 runoff peaked a bit lower than the river was running just a couple weeks ago. No dry flies and a lot of weight on the nymphs. :shock:
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...050_edited.jpg
John