flyI4
Fishizzle, I use worms but I'm looking to upgrade!
Anyone been following the flows on the west branch the past week. The river went from being over 1000 cfs for nearly a month to only 170cfs overnight and during prime time spawning season for the browns up there. I realize the water was artificially high this fall because of low flows downstream, but was it beyond reasonable to gradually scale back flows over a 3-5 day period to allow the fish to move to low water lies instead of leaving them on the rocks?(Instead they did it all in 12 hrs on October 16th) The response is the typical yawn at this point and fuck it- lets just send in our $20 and get drunk at the One Bug Next year in the name of conservation. Of course, FUDR hasn't issued a single comment on this drop nor has any other group. Between this terrible mgmt at a time critical to wild reproduction up there for 3-5 years in a row now and the amount of catch and kill fishing on the west branch this fall- this concludes a sad sad year up there for the system.
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